Cabin 5005 · MSC World America

Cabin 5005 is a Studio Ocean View on Deck 5 of MSC World America. You are 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. 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 5 out of 10 for steadiness.

Nothing sits close by: it is 11 cabins to Anchor + bow thrusters, the nearest thing of its kind. Quiet, at the cost of a few minutes each way. Quiet comes out at 6 out of 10, roughly par for this ship. For getting about it is 4 out of 10, so add a few minutes to everywhere you go.

Counting from the bow, it is the 3rd cabin position of 48 along Deck 5. That puts you right at the forward end of the run, where the corridor stops and the footfall dies away. Deck 5 also has Anchor + bow thrusters, Passenger Embarkation (fwd port), Passenger Embarkation (fwd starboard) and MSC Luna Park Arena on it. There are 67 cabins along this deck, so the corridor is short and rarely busy.

A Studio Ocean View gives you 129 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.

Against the rest of the ship it is noisier than three quarters of the 2,615 cabins on board. It is a poor fit for anyone who wakes when a door closes and anyone who finds long corridors and stairs hard work.

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.