As you will be aware every cruise ship will have a deck where the lifeboats will be positioned. These are for your safety and obviously cannot be avoided. It does mean however, that all the cabins positioned on that deck be them a suite, balcony or ocean view, will be obstructed either fully or partially by the lifeboats positioned on that deck.
With an obstructed view you will still have all of your natural light coming into the cruise cabin, so you will know whether its day or night as an inside cabin can be quite disorientating! You can generally see out of the window and see some of the view (other than the lifeboat) i usually try and make my clients picture it as like looking out of your own kitchen window, where, you will probably see imminent objects such as trees or maybe another house but you can also see everything around the objects like the sky etc.
Take a look at an example of some pictures i have found and see what you think....
Now, the price difference between a clear ocean view with no obstruction and obstructed view can be anything up to about £300pp which, to me is a lot of spending money particularly, if like most of us, you are on a budget! In an ideal world we would all like to have the best of the best but sometimes in order to save money things have to be sacrificed. I have stayed on an obstructed view cabin and i would personally rather save the money, still have natural light in my cabin and go up on deck if I wish to check out the views! After all, how long really are you planning on sitting in your cabin? Hopefully you will be up and out enjoying each destination.
To summarise then, I feel they are well worth considering rather than dismissing.
Let me know if any of you have stayed on an obstructed view cruise cabin and what your thoughts were/are on them? I would be very interested to know!
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