Cabin 17260 · Carnival Celebration

Cabin 17260 is a Cloud 9 Spa Balcony (category 8P) on Carnival Celebration.

Cabin 17260 is a Cloud 9 Spa Balcony on Deck 17 of Carnival Celebration. You are far forward. You are at the top of the passenger decks, so the pools and the open air are just up the stairs, and you feel the ship move more than anyone below you. You are well out towards the end of the hull, which is where pitching is felt hardest. Right up in the bow, a head sea can send a shudder through the hull that midship guests never feel at all. We score it 4 out of 10 for steadiness.

RedFrog Tiki Bar is immediately nearby, about 1 cabin away. Handy, though worth knowing about if you sleep lightly. Quiet comes out at 6 out of 10, roughly par for this ship. For getting about, 7 out of 10.

Of the 54 cabin positions on Deck 17, this is the 28th from forward. You are about as central as the corridor gets, so it is a similar walk whichever way you turn out of your door. You share Deck 17 with RedFrog Tiki Bar, Guy's Burger Joint and Warehouse. There are 88 cabins along this deck, so the corridor is short and rarely busy.

It is booked as a Cloud 9 Spa Balcony. A balcony buys you outside space of your own and, on sea days, somewhere to sit that is not the pool deck. It is the step up most people make, and the one they find hardest to give up again.

Against the rest of the ship it is noisier than three quarters of the 2,681 cabins on board, livelier in a swell than most of them and better placed for getting around than 91 per cent of them. It is a poor fit for anyone who wakes when a door closes and anyone who feels motion badly.

Scored by Cruise Ship Wiki using model v1.8, from the position of this cabin relative to every public space on the ship. Each part is out of 10.