Junior Suite Cabin - before we trash it by unpacking © BBE

Junior Suite Cabin - Overview

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Given we were doing two, back-to-back cruises with 2 days 'at sea,' we decided to go for a Junior Suite Cabin, rather than our usual balcony cabin.

Marella's Cabin Description here...

Bed with adjacent side lights (with USB port in each)
Looking into room from door
Looking back towards the Lavazza coffee machine and smart TV

Its probably about 50% bigger than the normal cabin we have, which was great!

More room inside the cabin meant 2 seater sofa, adjustable height coffee-table (which was useful), comfy chair, dressing table and large bedside table (with more storage). We also had a LAVAZZA coffee machine, fridge, ice-bucket (no idea where ice was supposed to come from*), kettle and hair-dryer.

*Think you had to go the bar area for the ice, and only ice-machine we saw was not working...

Bathroom

A somewhat tired looking 'modern' interpretation of bathroom, with weird, non-plugged sink...

Bathroom, with shower over bath
Toilet
Weird sink... no plug!

Cleanliness

Cabin was very clean, but due to chips, scuffs and odd plastic sink, everything looked grubby and dusty - but is was actually clean and dust-free!

Grande Balcony

Double sized balcony - so we had two sun loungers we could even have perpendicular to the railing if we wished, plus table and chairs.

Balcony - plenty of room
2X sun loungers, table and chairs - no power outlet though
Our Junior Cabin location in relation to whole ship

Power - what everyone stresses over.

Big cabin, 2 official guest sockets, (plus others if you unplug bedside light). A European one which provides 220V (which UK appliances can deal with), and one US one at only 110V (so make sure any appliances show 110-240V on them if you use the US one)

1 European Socket (2 pin) and 1 US socket
Coffee and Tea station
USB socket (one in EACH bedside light)

TIP: Master room switch will kill all power, so at night make sure you turn overhead bed lighting off with dimmer - otherwise your phones won't charge overnight! Took sometime to figure that one out... Dimmer was a black rotary knob near one of the bedside lights.

You could unplug the bedside lights, which gave you two more EUROPEAN (220V) sockets to play with - I did as I wanted to power laptop on balcony (and had packed a long cable for that need).

Storage

Plenty of drawer space, wardrobes (with about 30 hangars) and under bed storage space for suitcases / carry ons.

Safe

World's smallest safe it seemed - which was a pain in ass to get stuff into and out of... come on TUI! However, having left it open at least three times, I think its fair to say you can totally trust the cabin stewards and cruise staff.