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Does anyone have a photo of a category 5 or 6 room with the bed made up as twin beds? I'll be traveling with a friend and am wondering if we shoud separate the one big bed or use the sofa. I'm thinking separating the Queen would make it easier to get to the veranda and then we'd still have the sofa to sit on. Also, how does this work? Does the steward leave the two beds made up for the duration of the cruise or do the beds get pushed apart at night?
The sofa (if you're using it as a bed) is only made-up at night. Your stateroom host/hostess makes up the beds while you're at dinner. It'll be a sofa throughout the day.
The queen/twins once separated will remain that way throughout the cruise. The beds are pulled apart, and one of the nighttables that flank the queen is moved between the two twins.
Separating the beds will have no impact at all on access to the verandah - access to the sitting area/verandah is by walking past the foot of the bed(s) (see the room layout diagrams in PassPorter's Disney Cruise Line guidebook or at the DCL web site). Imagine the queen bed divided in half, with a gap between the beds equal to the width of the night table.
The sofa does not fold out, the sofa's back flips forward to reveal a twin mattress on the back side, so there's no effect on floor space from that, either.
I'd suggest that the bigger consideration is whether the person using the sofa would feel short-changed relative to the person possessing the queen (you might consider alternating between one bed and the other).
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Dave just voiced everything I thought when I read the request...except I didn't know for certain exactly how the beds were separated, therefore didn't feel I should answer.
The queen/twins once separated will remain that way throughout the cruise. The beds are pulled apart, and one of the nighttables that flank the queen is moved between the two twins.
The sofa does not fold out, the sofa's back flips forward to reveal a twin mattress on the back side, so there's no effect on floor space from that, either.
I'd suggest that the bigger consideration is whether the person using the sofa would feel short-changed relative to the person possessing the queen (you might consider alternating between one bed and the other).[/quot
My DH, DD, DS and Myself are in 7040, cat 5. So will we have bunk beds? I am confused as to how we will fit. In this case does the sofa pull out to a queen bed?
Now that we are talking cabins, this is a connecting room, do you think there is a chance we could get moved since we are a party of only 4? We started out a GTY 6.
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My DH, DD, DS and Myself are in 7040, cat 5. So will we have bunk beds? I am confused as to how we will fit. In this case does the sofa pull out to a queen bed?
Now that we are talking cabins, this is a connecting room, do you think there is a chance we could get moved since we are a party of only 4? We started out a GTY 6.
I doubt you'd be moved by DCL, unless they upgrade you, even if you no longer need the connecting room, since you pick your stateroom out when booking (unlike in the hotels, where you have to request connecting and hope they do it). We are in 6048 for our next cruise, having discovered that we couldn't have the room we had last time (6072) because not all cat 5/6 rooms sleep 4.
So, to answer your specific question, as the poster above linked, you will have "bunk beds". I think we'll probably switch off who sleeps in it, as long as there is a guard rail, which I can't imagine there isn't!
My DH, DD, DS and Myself are in 7040, cat 5. So will we have bunk beds? I am confused as to how we will fit. In this case does the sofa pull out to a queen bed?
Now that we are talking cabins, this is a connecting room, do you think there is a chance we could get moved since we are a party of only 4? We started out a GTY 6.
Except in some of the suites, there are no pull-out queens on board. All staterooms in Cat. 4 - 12 are what I'd call "family-optimized." They assume the third and fourth guests in the room are going to be kids, not an adult couple. So, if a room in Cats 4-12 sleeps four, it'll have a twin convertible sofa and a twin pull-down berth - you can consider those to be double bunks.
Once they assign a stateroom to a GTY guest, there's relatively little chance it'll be assigned a second time. It can happen, but if it does happen, you'll only go up, not down. I'm sure they considered the need for connecting rooms before assigning your room. Past a certain date, they're not going to wait for someone to show up desiring connecting rooms, especially since they'd have to move the guests in two staterooms to make room for the folks desiring those connecting rooms.
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I'm sure they considered the need for connecting rooms before assigning your room. Past a certain date, they're not going to wait for someone to show up desiring connecting rooms, especially since they'd have to move the guests in two staterooms to make room for the folks desiring those connecting rooms.
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