Cabin 7538 · Freedom of the Seas

Cabin 7538 is an Ocean View Balcony (quad) (category 5D) on Freedom of the Seas, 188 square feet plus a private balcony of 46 square feet. There is a double sofa bed. It sleeps up to 4. It connects to cabin 7536 through an interior door.

Cabin 7538 is an Ocean View Balcony (quad) on Deck 7 of Freedom of the Seas, far forward. 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 6 cabins from the forward lift bank, port. Close enough to be useful, far enough that it should not keep you awake. Freedom carries four lift banks on most decks, a port and starboard pair forward and another pair aft, so you are rarely 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. What a cabin beside one hears is doors, waiting conversation and footfall in the corridor, heaviest when a show lets out and after the late dinner seating. Quiet comes out at 8 out of 10, roughly par for this ship. For getting about, 8 out of 10.

Of the 173 cabin positions on Deck 7, this is the 29th from forward.

The Ocean View Balcony (quad) grade runs 188 square feet. The balcony adds another 46 on top of that. 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.

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 quieter than 97 per cent of the 1,963 cabins on board. It suits light sleepers and families running back to the cabin several times a day.

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.