Cabin 3257 · Independence of the Seas

Cabin 3257 is an Interior (category 3V/4V) on Independence of the Seas, 162 square feet, with no window. It sleeps up to 2.

Cabin 3257 is an Interior on Deck 3 of Independence of the Seas. You are forward of midship. 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 will feel a bit more motion than a midship cabin. Nothing dramatic. We score it 9 out of 10 for steadiness, which puts it among the calmest rooms on the ship.

Nothing sits close by: it is 9 cabins to Centrum, the nearest thing of its kind. Quiet, at the cost of a few minutes each way. The atrium, an open well rising through roughly seven decks with glass lifts on one side. Deck 4 is its floor. Bands, dance parties, parades and the aerial acrobatics performances all happen in the void above it. Worth knowing: about the worst shape a space can have for sound. Anything amplified on the floor goes straight up to every deck that looks into it, and the late evening dance parties are the loudest of it. Quiet scores 4 out of 10. There is enough going on nearby that a light sleeper should think about it. For getting about it scores 9 out of 10, so almost everything is a short walk.

Counting from the bow, it is the 27th cabin position of 89 along Deck 3. Deck 3 also has Royal Theater, Centrum, Studio B Ice Rink and Photo Gallery on it. There are 117 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 noisier than three quarters of the 1,932 cabins on board, as steady in a swell as any cabin on the ship and better placed for getting around than 96 per cent of them. It suits travellers prone to seasickness and 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.