Cabin 8490 · Carnival Firenze

Cabin 8490 is a Terrazza Aft-View Extended Balcony (category TI1) on Carnival Firenze, 185 square feet plus a private balcony of 60 to 100 square feet.

Cabin 8490 is a Terrazza Aft-View Extended Balcony on Deck 8 of Carnival Firenze, and it sits well aft. Out at this end you feel the sea. In rough water the movement here is noticeably stronger. This far aft you may also pick up a hum from the propellers, usually at night when the ship is making speed between ports. Some people never notice it, others find it soothing, a few cannot ignore it. We score it 4 out of 10 for steadiness.

We give it 10 out of 10 for quiet, which is about as peaceful as this ship gets. For getting about it is 3 out of 10, so add a few minutes to everywhere you go.

Counting from the bow, it is the 211th cabin position of 212 along Deck 8. That puts you right at the aft end of the run, where the corridor stops and the footfall dies away.

A Terrazza Aft-View Extended Balcony gives you 185 square feet. The balcony adds another 60-100 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.

Against the rest of the ship it is as quiet as anything on board, livelier in a swell than most of them and better placed for getting around than 79 per cent of them. It suits light sleepers. It is a poor fit for anyone who feels motion badly 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.