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The big divide is between cabins with a full view (types C and D) and cabins with “a limited or extremely limited view” (type E). That’s Crystal’s term for “no verandah,” and here the picture gets simpler. The just visible curtained alcove gives the cabin its. Like a Ritz-Carlton GM once said to me, the hardest room to sell is a basic double.Ī Crystal Penthouse Suite with verandah. cheaper than the lowest level Penthouse Deck cabin, and on this cruise it was occupied by a passenger who has taken 187 Crystal Cruises in the Penthouse. But before you smirk, consider this: The space is actually $16 per sq. ft.) cost a cool $196,000 on this cruise. For that you get a cabin with a curtained sleeping alcove (again, a nice sleight-of-hand) and a larger verandah.įinally, there’s the top of the pyramid: The Crystal Penthouses (cabins 10 982 sq. ft.) to the Penthouse Suite With Verandah (491 sq. From the Penthouse With Verandah (367 sq. But still.Įven The Hotel Detective had to gasp slightly at the price differences between the three cabin types on Deck 10.
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ft., or $216 per square foot), and lots of nice frills such as a butler, complimentary evening hor d’oeuvres and Champagne, and free dry-cleaning. For that, you’re getting more space (121 sq. That is $26,180 more than the verandah cabin one deck below. The big price jump comes if you want the Penthouse Deck (10), where the least expensive cabin on this cruise cost $77,480. It’s the sliding glass doors and the verandah that makes verandah-cabins seem so much larger. It was only on a cabin tour that The Hotel Detective realized that both cabin types are nearly identical to the 500-series, the least expensive cabin and one without a verandah. including verandah) and the view is, too.
On this cruise, Deck 8 verandah cabins cost $2,500 less than those on deck 9 (type A), even though the cabins are identical (246 sq. Verandah cabins on deck 8 (type B) are the least expensive, which is why they sell out first, according to Ms. (I’m quoting the “brochure fare,” the rate without any discounts, of which there are many, in order to level the playing field.) The cost is a bit more breathtaking when you think of the verandah as costing $552 a day.
On this cruise, the bump-up from the top cabin without a verandah (type C) to the bottom cabin with one (type B) was $8,840. It was a party perch when the ship sailed, a contemplative realm during nights at sea, an observation tower for certain cruise segments-it put me above the tree line for the majestic procession down the Mekong Delta, and it was a box seat for the early-morning trip up the Pearl River Delta to Hong Kong-and overall, it exerted a daily sleight-of-hand that made the cabin feel like it went to the horizon. Here’s how having a verandah worked for me.