My husband and I are looking at taking a Disney Cruise next summer with our 11 year old and 7 year old boys. We either are going to book the Dulux Family Stateroom with Veranda or the Dulux Stateroom with Veranda.
In your opinion, what is the difference? The both sleep four and both have a veranda. I am sure there is a bit of a size difference, but are they both comfortable? Thank you in advance for your assistance!
Disney: Family stateroom vs. stateroom
Recent Activity
View all Cruises activity »
- 1
Beware of Grand Circle Travel and Overseas Adventure Travel
- 2 Prep for First Cruise-- August 2014
- 3 Copenhagen pier
- 4 TRANSATLANTIC CRUISING TIPS AND OPINIONS
- 5 Island Princess Panama Canal Cruise excursion
- 6 Cruising?
- 7 Mediteranean cruise in Nov
- 8 Azamara cruises
- 9 Best way to prevent seasickness?
- 10 the new Royal Caribbean menu 2013
- 11 Carnival Cheers Program more expensive on all all-you-can-drink ships but 2
- 12 RCCL or Princess for Alaska
- 13 Florida Bus
- 14 transportation from Port Charlotte to Fort Everglades
- 15 News. Viking river cruises entering ocean liner market.
- 16 Please help with Ketchikan
- 17 St.Croix dropped as cruise stop
- 18
Trip report: Sapphire Princess May 11-18 2013/Wine Country Coastal
- 19 How are Carnival Cruises during the winter months?
- 20 Suggestions for excursions in the Greek Isles Oct 2013
- 21 Are there any cruises to South America that depart from the United States?
- 22 Which River Cruise company?? Amsterdam to Vienna 2014
- 23 Who wants to join us on Pacific Coastal?
- 24 Cruising to Iceland
- 25 San Diego Zoo
Hi,
The Category 4 deluxe family stateroom has 304 sq. ft and an extra twin bed. The Category 5 or Category 6 feluxe staterooms have 268 sq. ft and don't have the extra bed. With the twin bed, the access to the balcony can be somewhat limited. It all depends on how well your family does in smaller spaces.
If you go with the family staterooms, avoid getting a stateroom under the Goofy pool because it gets noisy with the deck parties. Also, some of the staterooms have a solid railing as opposed to a plexiglass railing, which might limit visibility.
The Category 5 or 6 balcony staterooms are mostly mid-ship or towards the rear of the ship. Again, some of these staterooms have a solid railing. Watch out for laundry rooms across the hallway from your room.
Best Regards,
Julia
Der Julia:
Thank you so much! This is a wealth of information that I would not have even considered. Again, thanks!
We had a category 4 with our boys (ages 7 and 9). The category 4 has a double bed with a curtain that could be pulled to "close off" the other side of the cabin; a sofa which was made into a single bed while we were at dinner; a pull down single bed above the sofa which becomes like a bunk bed over the sofa (this bed is also made up during evening turndown service- during the day, it is in the ceiling); and a single murphy-style bed (pulls down from the wall) that came out of a cabinet at the outside end of the cabin. If the wall bed is down, it is difficult to get to the balcony. If you want to use the balcony once a child has gone to bed, you would want to have the child sleep in the sofa bed or the "ceiling bed". One of our boys used the wall bed once or twice just because of the novelty of trying all the beds.
With 4 in a room, you could just choose not to use that bed if you want to go on the balcony once the kids are asleep. I think you should select the best level cabin you can afford- a little more room makes a lot of difference in relatively small cruise ship cabins.