Cabin 1801 · Freedom of the Seas

Cabin 1801 is an Interior (category 3V/4V) on Freedom of the Seas, 162 square feet, with no window. It sleeps up to 2.

Cabin 1801 is an Interior on Deck 12 of Freedom of the Seas, 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. This is a long way from the pivot, so a swell reaches you before it reaches anyone midship. 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.

It is 4 cabins along the corridor to Vitality at Sea Spa. Close enough to be useful, far enough that it should not keep you awake. The spa and salon forward on deck 12, sitting above the gym. Seventeen treatment rooms, a thermal suite, a Rasul room, sauna and steam, and a teen treatment menu for thirteen to seventeen. Worth knowing: designed to be silent and mostly is. What a neighbouring cabin gets is back of house rather than guests: early staff setup, linen carts in the corridor and water handling for the thermal suite. Quiet comes out at 6 out of 10, roughly par for this ship. For getting about, 6 out of 10.

Counting from the bow, it is the 10th cabin position of 33 along Deck 12. Deck 12 also has Lime and Coconut, Arcade, Adventure Ocean and Nursery on it. There are 50 cabins along this deck, so the corridor is short and rarely busy.

An Interior gives you 162 square feet. No window, which makes it the darkest and cheapest room on board and, for a lot of people, the best sleep they get all week. If waking to daylight matters to you, an ocean view is the smallest step up.

Worth knowing before you book: Crown and Anchor pays one cruise point a night at this grade. A suite pays two, and so does sailing solo on a double occupancy fare, which is the cheaper of the two routes if you are travelling alone anyway. Checked against the line's own published terms on 8 September 2026.

Against the rest of the ship it is livelier in a swell than most of them and further from the action than most. 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.