I Booked The CHEAPEST and SMALLEST Cabin on a Cruise

I’ve just disembarked a cruise where I had the cheapest cabin on the entire ship, it was less than half the size of the average hotel room in the US and it was located right in the middle of the ship with no windows or access to daylight at all.

On the ship there were 293 inside cabins which meant that there could be almost 1000 people in inside cabins just on this cruise alone. Inside cabins are a huge part of the cruise market, but cruise lines rarely advertise them. I wanted to find out why.

I did wonder if I’d miss the outside space, especially given that we were cruising to some beautiful places but when I saw the price difference between an inside and a balcony, I knew I had to give it a go. I do get seasick and the seasickness bags did come out during this cruise but I didn’t think too much about that when booking my cabin.

I hoped that the lack of daylight wouldn’t be too much of a problem, I hoped that we wouldn’t feel claustrophobic and that the cabin would be clean with plenty of storage. I knew the ship was built in 2001 but I hoped that the cabins had been refurbished since then.

This image and this plan on the Norwegian website was all that I had to go on and to me, this looked like a TV from 2001. I wondered if this cruise would be like stepping back in time.

On a cruise you can either book a cruise fare that includes picking your cabin location on the ship, or you can just let the cruise line decide and usually this is cheaper. I wanted to take this cruise as cheaply as possible so decided to let the cruise line pick. This type of cabin is called a guaranteed cabin because you’re guaranteed to at least get what you’ve paid for, but these cabins are usually the left over cabins as everybody picks the “better” cabins.

The Norwegian Sun is 13 decks high and 848 ft long which is about 8 planes in a line. She has inside cabins from deck 4 all the way up to deck 10, I could be given a cabin on any deck and from right at the front of the ship, to right at the back.


I could have a cabin with an adjoining door to the cabin next door, I could have one in a ‘noisey’ location, I could even have one which was sideways compared to the rest of the cabins. I had no idea.

I was secretly hoping that I would get a cabin in the middle of the ship so that I didn’t have a long walk to get down to the lower decks for dinner, or up to the higher decks for snacks in the buffet. My cabin was actually further from the buffet than I would have liked, but more about that later.

Apart from that I wasn’t really worried about my location, and it’s a good job I wasn’t because many would say that I was given one of the worst locations on the ship.

A couple of weeks before the cruise I received an email saying that my luggage tags were ready to print out and on these luggage tags was the cabin number 7314.

I went straight to the Norwegian cruise line website and found my cabin right at the front of deck 7. On most cabin decks you’ll find that the whole deck is cabins so I was interested to see that my cabin was between the art gallery and the kids clubs. I had visions of the kids running up and down the corridor but hoped it wouldn’t be like that.

The inside cabin we were staying in was around 13 metres squared which is very similar to the size of a shipping container. It was 9 foot wide which is around the width of a bus but it wasn’t as long as a bus, think of the cabin as a short little bus.

These cabins are made fully formed before they are put onto the cruise ship so I knew that they couldn’t have made too many changes since the ship was launched. Occasionally cruise ships will add extra cabins and sometimes they actually split the cruise ship in half to fit in another section, but once a cabin is in a cruise ship it’s pretty much there forever.

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