Port or Starboard cabin?

[scareyness]

We are booked to go to Carribean on the Nieuw Amsterdam on 9th January 2011 doing a B2B. Was just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the best side to be on?

 

Itinary:

 

Fort Lauderale

Grand Turk

San Juan

St Maarten

Half Moon

Fort Lauderdale

Half Moon

Grand Turk

Caymen Islands

Costa Maya

Fort Lauderdale

 

We currently have a starboard cabin booked, but previously to Panama Canal we had a Port cabin and this turned out to be the best side to be on, and then to Hawaii we had a starboard cabin and this was the worse side to be on! :(

 

Any ideas would be appreciated

[Krazy Kruizers]

JMO -- but we like the Port side -- most times when the ship docks, the port side faces the port. We love sitting out on the verandah watching what is happening in the port.

[sail7seas]

We've been on many cruises but only on starboard maybe four cruises. We took those cabins because they were the only left in the category we wanted at the time we booked.

 

We are always in port side cabin...... maybe it's just habit now? :D :)

 

It's impossible to say which side the ship will dock. We have done back-to-back on the same itinerary and one week the ship docked portside to the dock and the next week starboard. So many reasons why they change sides and no one can predict.

 

Bruce Muzz posted just last week an extensive list of reasons why the ships dock different sides.

[scareyness]

It isn't particularly the docking I am thinking of.

 

More the sun!!:D Sometimes it is nice to go back to cabin for a chill on your own, and the sun is a plus!

[jtl513]

It isn't particularly the docking I am thinking of.

 

More the sun!!:D Sometimes it is nice to go back to cabin for a chill on your own, and the sun is a plus!

As s7s said, it's impossible to predict which side will face the dock. Once when we were in St Thomas two HAL ships were docked such that the port sides faced each other.

 

As far as sun while at sea, on a round trip half the time you'll get it in the morning and half the time you'll get it in the afternoon, whichever side you're on. :)

[ANSalberg]

We are usually portside because I enjoy watching the Portside activities; That said- most of not ALL HAL ships dock in areas where about half the time starboard IS "portside" in port! [ That's FAIR!] consequently -it really doesn't matter.

We will be on the Nieuw Amsterdam in April for the TA/Spain-Italy cruise into Venice next year and I'm looking forward to this cruise also, as we loved doing a similar cruise TA/ Baltic last year on the Eurodam. THAT crossing weather was spectacularly calm -BUT we were in port later with a Princess ship exactly 24 hours behind us in crossing and passengers we visited with said THEIR crossing weather-wise was a nightmare.

So crossings MY be "A nightmare" but- Hey; you're ON a cruiseship!

Anne