CleveRocks

Thank you both very much!

Thank you both. Obviously I’d already studied the deck plan. Thank you for confirming that a location directly under the pool deck and Garden Cafe is generally considered to be undesirable; it seemed that way on paper, but I’m happy to know this has been the actual experience of others. All of the Sail Away cabins for the Club Balcony Suite category (whether MA or MB) are sold out, so there is no chance of my getting an unknown MA cabin anywhere. If I switch, I would have to choose a specific cabin, there would be nothing unknown whatsoever. Looks like we will stay put, but I’d still love to hear any more pointers or tips anyone is kind enough to share.

I tried searching, but the search returns almost every post in the NCL category because “ma” appears in many many words, including the word many lol. We’re currently booked in a club balcony suite category MB, very far forward on Deck 11. We were thinking of changing to a club balcony suite that’s more mid-ship. All of the mid-ship club balcony suites on Deck 11 are category MA. Same price and so on, but is there any difference between MA and MB besides location? We haven’t cruised in many years. For a 12-day cruise, we’re thinking we may prefer mid-ship as we may feel less motion as compared with far forward. And then there’s another detail. It looks like the available MA cabins are directly below the pool deck and buffet on Deck 12. So we’ll feel less motion of the ship, but will we experience more noise and aromas in a cabin directly below the pool deck or buffet? We cruised in 1993, 2012 and 2013, all on Royal Caribbean, so we feel like rookies all over again for our 2025 cruise. Thank you for any advice or insight you can give!

I tried searching, but I didn’t find anything that wasn’t too old or not quite the info I’m looking for. Our cruise, next June, disembarks in Reykjavik on a Friday, and we expect to be off the ship by about 0800. We will fly home to the USA the next day, and we’re hoping to get a tiny little sample of the region during our full day there; during the cruise, we’ll have already made stops at Akureyri and Isafjordur. We thought about renting a car and driving the Golden Circle. [My wife and I tend not to like organized tours, as we prefer to come and linger-or-not-linger and go as we please. But if you’d like to convince me that a tour is better, I enjoy listening to experts, because I’m a seasoned traveler and I know that not all of my assumptions are correct.] How do you recommend we go about getting the rental car? I’m sure there will be a taxi ride from the port, but then where from there? Our intention will be to keep the car overnight and drive to KEF the next morning and return the car there. THANK YOU!