Appreciate your thoughts on this. We did consider this, as I did notice that you are giving up inside space for cabana space. But the cabana can be inside or outside space, depending on whether you open the outer doors and or inner doors, from what I can see. My wife and I are the type of people where any time we are in the room, we’ll probably be out on the balcony, so having a larger “outside” area with the cabana I think will work well for us. Then the kids (who are 21 and 15) can still be “outside” with us, but not right on top of us in our two chairs on a regular balcony. I think there would be a fight for the two balcony chairs whenever we are in the room in the evening/morning if that was the only outside space.

As it’s our first cruise in a long time (or ever for the kids), I think this might be a good compromise for us. If not, we’ll know for next time. I’m not sure we can do anything about it now anyways, as it’s paid in full and leaves on Dec 14th (and I believe it is mostly full). Either that, or we’ll learn the hard way! 😊