Royal Caribbean crew member shows off tiny crew cabin

Cruise crew members have traditionally lived in very small cabins that they share with other crew members.

Cabin mates are normally assigned by department, but just because two people work contained within the bar or the restaurant department does now no longer mean they keep the identical hours.

Traditional crew cabins normally had bunk beds. That meant that the crew member on top may should climb up (or down) when the choice person became sound asleep.

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One cabin mate may per chance be assigned to close a bar at 1 or 2 a.m. while the other may per chance be getting the pool bar or the Windjammer buffet bar ready for an early opening.

It truly is a situation that Royal Caribbean has been attempting to cast off on its more recent ships.

Crew cabins on its new Icon-Class ship, the aptly named Icon of the Seas, do now no longer have bunk beds. That provides crew members a an extraordinarily good buy better chance of now no longer waking up their cabin mates.

In some cases, the cruise line has also given crew members small solo cabins with a shared "Jack and Jill" bathroom. These are very small rooms, but they do give more crew members a room to call their own.

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Icon of the Seas has small solo cabins

Chris Wong, a most well-liked vlogger who works for Royal Caribbean, recently showed off his cabin on Icon of the Seas in a YouTube video.

He started the video by acknowledging that he became aware he has a small cabin.

"Yes, this would per chance be the smallest cabin I've ever, you recognize, had at some point of a contract," he said. "The complete way through my entire career, I've never lived in a crew cabin reasonably literally this small. But on the identical time, it might probably be also the most significant up to date and almost nicest cabins that I've in point of fact stayed in."

Wong noted that the cabin became in point of fact well designed.

"I do not even know where to begin out," he said. "It be miles so small I feel like I will almost reach all four walls by standing contained within the middle if I stretch my arms and legs out.

"Now, the the reason is, I say it truly is incredibly up to date is because there is so much more storage in here than I would normally have if I had my regular, you recognize, shared cabin. Really, there'll be a lot storage space that I am now no longer even utilizing completely the complete thing. Here's the material dresser. Again, a lot of you are probably thinking it looks reasonably small."

Some features are very clever.

'We have now a desk that slides out. To have the flexibleness to appear my MacBook, iPad, my work phone. I've got my AirPods just chilling there and it slides in very nicely," he said.

The room also has a minifridge. That has storage space below it, where he keeps more clothes.

"This on the bottom is your minifridge," he said. "Also, storage space, which, yeah, socks and underwear. No longer sure why I just showed you that, but, you recognize, I believe I am very honest at this point in my channel."

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Icon of the Seas crew cabins have a fresh design

"So underneath my bed, you possibly can have got you possibly can have gotten got these sliding doors, which is in point of fact an extremely neat feature. So for me, I've in point of fact put my more clothes in a single section because, yeah, obviously the material dresser here wasn't in point of fact sufficient enough to carry the complete thing.

"So a nice storage space for more clothes. Underneath the bed, after which on this side, I in point of fact keep things like my dirty laundry and just other spare things," Wong said.

The bed, which is raised off the ground, is a bit of a challenge.

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"All right, let's move over to the bed. So it might probably be an extraordinarily -- it truly is challenging to tell on camera ... the scale of the bed. Let me see if I will put the camera down. So what I would do is in general you kind of just should hop on the bed each and every night," he said.

There is additionally a small flat-screen TV near the bed and a reading light. Wong has his own sink but shares the shower area.

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"It truly is the shower situation. Now within the event you are wondering what's on this side, it truly is my cabin mate. So we call it single shares because technically you are sharing the bathroom nonetheless it might probably be where we get showered each and every day," he said.

"Obviously bathroom, very usual. And we do have, again, all this storage space, a lot storage space that even the two of us were now no longer even in point of fact utilizing all of this space."

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