Cabin 2240 · Independence of the Seas

Cabin 2240 is an Ocean View (category 3N/4N) on Independence of the Seas, 162 square feet, with a half-moon ocean view window. It sleeps up to 2. The bathroom has a shower.

Cabin 2240 is an Ocean View on Deck 2 of Independence of the Seas, far forward. You are near the bottom of the passenger decks, which is the steadiest place to be, though it is a fair climb to the open air. You are well out towards the end of the hull, which is where pitching is felt hardest. We score it 6 out of 10 for steadiness.

You are 5 cabins from the forward lift bank, starboard. Close enough to be useful, far enough that it should not keep you awake. The forward lift lobby. Independence of the Seas carries four lift banks on most decks, a port and starboard pair forward and another pair aft, so few cabins sit more than half a corridor from one. These are conventional lifts, with call buttons in the lobby and deck buttons inside the car. Worth knowing: the cars are quiet. The lobby is not. A cabin beside one hears doors, waiting conversation and footfall in the corridor, heaviest when a show lets out and at the start and end of a port day. Quiet comes out at 6 out of 10, roughly par for this ship. For getting about, 8 out of 10.

Of the 146 cabin positions on Deck 2, this is the 1st from forward. That puts you right at the forward end of the run, where the corridor stops and the footfall dies away. You share Deck 2 with Conference Center. There are 173 cabins along this deck, so the corridor is a fairly ordinary length.

The Ocean View grade runs 162 square feet. You get daylight and a sense of where you are without paying balcony money. The window does not open, so it is the view but not the air.

On loyalty, this is a standard grade, so Crown and Anchor credits its base one cruise point a night. There are exactly two ways to double that: move up to a suite, or sail on your own on a double occupancy fare. Either pays two a night, and doing both pays three. Checked against the line's own published terms on 8 September 2026.

It suits families running back to the cabin several times a day. It is a poor fit for anyone who wakes when a door closes.

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.