JazzBassMan Posted June 13, 2023 Report Share Posted June 13, 2023 Hi everyone, My Wife and I are looking at booking a Grand Loft Suite for a New Zealand cruise and I'm wondering if anyone has an experience with the grand loft suites on Ovation. My first instinct is to pick one of the corner rooms on Deck 10, but are there advantages to the center grand lofts on deck 8 or the center grand lofts on deck 10 that I haven't considered. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WAAAYTOOO Posted June 13, 2023 Report Share Posted June 13, 2023 40 minutes ago, JazzBassMan said: Hi everyone, My Wife and I are looking at booking a Grand Loft Suite for a New Zealand cruise and I'm wondering if anyone has an experience with the grand loft suites on Ovation. My first instinct is to pick one of the corner rooms on Deck 10, but are there advantages to the center grand lofts on deck 8 or the center grand lofts on deck 10 that I haven't considered. Thanks in advance. I have only sailed on Anthem, so I have no direct experience with Ovation or any of the other Q class ships. My comments are going to assume that the 2 ships have the same design for the GLS. We have stayed in both the center and corner GLS on Anthem and I cannot recommend the corner GLS. They are much smaller than the center suites. They are smaller in actual square footage, but more importantly, they feel MUCH smaller due to the geometry of the ship - the corner units cut away much of the open space due to the angle of the ship's hull. The upstairs, in particular, is waaayyyyy more cramped than the center suites. You lose an entire dressing/closet area due to the angled sides. We could not even fit all of our hanging clothes into the one very small closet upstairs in the corner suite. We had to put some of our hanging clothes in the closet downstairs. It was very inconvenient. The corner units do have 3 small exterior balconies (its one and only possible plus), as opposed to the 1 large balcony of the center suites, but we found those other 2 [extra] small balconies to be useless. Those 2 small balconies do NOT make up for the rest of the deficiencies of the corner GLS. Assuming no other differences between the Ovation and Anthem, I recommend the center GLS on Deck 10. Deck 8 is much noisier. JazzBassMan, F1guynz and SebagoSue 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JazzBassMan Posted June 13, 2023 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2023 52 minutes ago, WAAAYTOOO said: I recommend the center GLS on Deck 10. Deck 8 is much noisier. Thanks! this is good info. From the deck plan and interior photos Anthem and Ovation look pretty much the same, so they would probably have the same layout issues you describe. I'll go with a middle GS on Deck 10. WAAAYTOOO 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sea Squirrel Posted June 13, 2023 Report Share Posted June 13, 2023 We had 10724 last year on OV and loved it. The balcony was very deep but it was a bit rainy on our cruise so we really didn’t use it. There is no real overhang from Deck 11. The Hopefully you have great weather and get lots of use out it. The cabin itself was pretty darned fantastic, enjoy your cruise. JazzBassMan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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