7 Days in the World’s Most Controversial Cruise Cabin

I’m currently on a cruise and I’m staying in one of the world’s strangest cabins. The design is so unusual that there are no other cruise ships with this layout at all. Even the cruise line that owns this ship, never used the design again.

For years I’ve seen people arguing about if this cabin style is a genius idea or something to be avoided entirely. I suspected that it may be something in between but I was not prepared for the reality of living in the cabin for 7 days.

I wanted to find out why the cruise line did this and I wanted to know why they never repeated it. It’s really rare for a cruise ship not to have any others that are the same design so I knew that there must be a reason. I wanted to know if the controversial cabin would be enough to put me off cruising on the ship in future and if the cabin would be in a bad condition given that the ship launched in 2010.

** Psst, a little explainer of the 'paid promotion' pop-up. That is there because this video was filmed on a press trip. I didn't pay a cruise fare for myself, but I did pay for my parents to take the cruise in the exact same type of cabin. They had the layout with the sofa further into the cabin, and for them I paid £1272 ($1699) per person, based on two sharing, including the free at sea promotion, for a 7-night cruise. That's how much my cabin would have cost if I hadn't been on the press trip.

This kind of press trip is usually for travel agents, which leads me on very nicely to my next point... I've launched my own travel agency!!! We have teams in the USA and UK and can't wait to help you find your perfect cruise. We've found some fantastic deals on Epic recently, if this cabin set up doesn't put you off. https://emmacruises.com/book-a-cruise/ 😎👀

If you missed my agency launch video, this explains more: https://youtu.be/P_Co86SMTaE?si=6pIzhmGLy3zb6Jdw **

If you've read all this way down, thank you so much. Comment the word 'MOON' so I know. I'll be looking out for that word. 😂😂

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