Why are cruise ship bathrooms so small?

Cruise ship bathrooms in most cabins on mainstream cruise lines are only as large as they need to be in order to contain all the functional parts -- sink, toilet and shower with room to turn around. Cruise ship shower stalls can be narrow, sometimes with curtains that cling when wet.



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Bathrooms on a cruise ship are “cozy' to say the least. It has everything you need, but not much space to spare. Including all the space — including the area taken up by cabinets, counters, and the shower — a typical bathroom is around 25-30 square feet.

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Cruise lines drain their swimming pools at night to discourage guests from trying to enter the pool when it is closed. Draining the swimming pools each night also allows the cruise lines to replace the water with clean water and a drained swimming pool is safer if the weather is rough.

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How do Cruise Ship Toilets Work? There is water in the bowl of the toilet prior to it being used but there is no extra water that flushes down the waste, instead, the waste is sucked down. Suction toilets make perfect sense on cruise ships, as it reduces the amount of water needed considerably.

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And while some other items in the video also seem fairly obvious, two things that are flushable at home can't be flushed on cruise ships -- wipes and non-cruise-ship toilet paper. A Carnival ship heads out to sea.

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Cruise ship pools are usually filled with saltwater which has been chemically treated. On some cruise ships, you will find freshwater pools but these are less common. It is possible to have a cruise ship where some pools are fresh and some saltwater, this is very common on Royal Caribbean cruise ships.

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Cruise ship pools are usually filled with saltwater which has been chemically treated. On some cruise ships, you will find freshwater pools but these are less common. It is possible to have a cruise ship where some pools are fresh and some saltwater, this is very common on Royal Caribbean cruise ships.

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Do Cruise Ships Dump Sewage? Yes. To get into a few more specifics than above, the U.S. allows cruise ships to dump treated waste into the ocean if they are within three and a half miles from shore. Beyond that point, there are no restrictions for dumping untreated, raw sewage in U.S. ocean waters.

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All rooms and locations available to guests are located well above sea level. If you do book a room on a lower deck, it doesn't mean you are at the bottom of the ship below water level. It's just the lowest deck available to guests. Directly under guests last deck is the crew cabins, etc.

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The depth at which a ship sits in the water is known as the draft. Most cruise ships typically have a draft of between 5 metres (16ft 5in ) and 10 metres (32ft 10in). The actual draft depends on the size of the vessel and how much fuel and ballast water is on board. A typical cruise ship draft is 8.5m (25ft 6in).

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Venice-class: Viking Ocean Cruises Starting with the Viking Star, Viking Ocean Cruises' Venice-class of ships struck gold by offering probably the largest-ever entry-level shower. Veranda Staterooms feature showers, you can actually turn around in, according to Viking Cruises founder and chairman, Torstein Hagen.

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Most ships can store 500,000 gallons of fresh water in massive tanks located in the hold area. After guests have used the water for showering, toilet water, laundry, etc., the crew treats it before releasing it into the ocean. A cruise ship will bring fresh water onboard when they visit ports.

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Usually, this involves your cabin steward cleaning and sanitizing the bathroom, emptying trash bins, replacing towels, making the bed/beds, vacuuming as needed, refilling ice bins, washing and replacing glassware and a general tidying of the room.

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There are some exceptions to this rule but generally speaking, the majority of cruise lines drain their swimming pools each night. They do this for multiple reasons.

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Cruise ship tap water is safe to drink unless you are told otherwise by the ship's authorities. The water throughout the ship has been treated, filtered and frequently tested to meet the standards of the World Health Organization and the U.S. Public Health Service on ships sailing into and out of U.S. ports of call.

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Shipboard potable water (drinking, bathing, whirlpools, etc.) either comes from a shoreside water treatment plant or is generated on board from seawater via Reverse Osmosis systems or Evaporators. Swimming pool water is typically seawater.

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While, yes, underwater cruise ship rooms do exist, they aren't staterooms or suites that passengers can stay in. Instead, the rooms below the waterline are meant for crew members.

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A majority of cruise ship lines offer their employees free food throughout the duration of their contracts. There's typically a special kitchen on the boat that prepares food for staff members. Employees may eat in separate dining areas, depending on their classifications.

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