Sofa size / photos in Miracle 7A (or sister ship), please?

[fridayeyes]

Hi, all!

 

We need some info about the sofa in category 7A, rooms 5185/87/89 or thereabouts.

 

Is the sofa the kind where you can take the bolster off and use it as a third single bed? If it's shorter than a regular single, how much shorter, roughly speaking?

 

All of my experience, including searches of photos & videos of relevant staterooms and categories, suggests yes, but Carnival insists otherwise, that the sofa, if there is one, can't be slept on.

 

At issue, we're cruising in a group of 5 cabins / 10 people / 2 per cabin with three teens amongst us. We want to know if all three teens could sleep in the same cabin if they wanted.

 

We have the "teen room" bracketed on either side by the parent / grandparent cabins, so we can ride herd and minimize possible annoyance of other cruisers. ;)

 

Thanks in advance!

 

Friday

Edited April 26, 2017 by fridayeyes

[SadieN]

The sofa is a daybed, not a foldout. Sis says they're very comfortable. Maybe a smidge narrower than a twin.

Look on the deck plans to see which cabin has the sofabed. Your room steward can also tell you. Not all sofas become beds.

[fridayeyes]

Thanks, SadieN!

 

For the sofas that don't make a daybed, what is that sofa like? Has anyone seen one of those? Is it short, like a loveseat with fixed arms?

Edited April 26, 2017 by fridayeyes

[crusinpsychRN]

Not as short as a love seat, no arms.

[fridayeyes]

Thank you, cruisinpsychRN. :)

[k2excursion]

Thanks, SadieN!

 

For the sofas that don't make a daybed, what is that sofa like? Has anyone seen one of those? Is it short, like a loveseat with fixed arms?

 

For the sofas that are not allowed to be made into a bed, it's still the exact same sofa (aside from a few ships--not yours). They just are not allowed to use every sofa for an extra bed, because of capacity rules. So they have some system that picks & chooses which rooms allow the sofa to be made into a bed for an extra person & which ones are not allowed to do this. The deck plans will have symbols to let you know which rooms allow it.

 

The exceptions I referenced are with the Triumph, Victory, & maybe Sunshine. Those are older ships, and for some reason, when the room's sofa is not allowed to be a bed, it is a shorter loveseat-type sofa with arms. We had one of the rooms like that on Triumph. There could still be some rooms on those ships where non-bed sofas are the longer one, but I would expect to get the shorter sofa if I had one of those rooms. And just to clarify, if anyone else has a room booked on one of those 3 ships which will use the sofa as a bed, it will be the longer sofa.

[fridayeyes]

Perfect, thank you!

[isaiahsnana]

We did about the same thing on the Triumph - only we were all adults - all in cabins in a row - but one cabin was booked with 4 meaning two had to climb up to a bunk - only one was really able and willing to do that, so the extra person just went next door and made up the sofa into a bed with the extra blanket and pillows in the closet. No one complained about the bed so teens should have no issue. W folded the bedding up each morning and stuffed it in the closet before departing for breakfast.

[fridayeyes]

Perfect, isaiahsnana - this is exactly what we'd like to do. :)

 

We made the reservations today, so woo hoo! We're cruisin'!