What sets her apart
The Byron Beach Club, a gated suite-only deck with its own pool and bar, carried over intact from the ship's P&O Australia years.
Cabins on this ship
7 grades on this ship. What each costs depends on the sailing, so the prices are on the itineraries.
Interior
No window and the cheapest grade on the ship. Around fifteen square metres, dark with the lights off. On the short Queensland and South Pacific runs this ship sails, where you are ashore or on deck most of the day, it is a reasonable trade; on a longer reef or Vanuatu itinerary with sea days it starts to tell.
Porthole
An interior-sized cabin low in the ship with a genuine porthole in the hull. Cheaper than a proper ocean-view cabin and it does give you daylight and a sense of the sea state. The window is small, it is very low down, and the position near the waterline is the noisiest part of the ship in a swell.
Ocean View
A sealed picture window, mostly on the lower decks. The cheapest grade with a real horizon, which is the thing that helps if anyone in the party is prone to seasickness. A number of categories here are sold as obstructed because a lifeboat sits in front of them, so the specific cabin matters more than the grade.
Balcony
Private outdoor space, and on a South Pacific itinerary the upgrade most people are pleased they paid for - the ship spends long warm days at sea between islands. This is a 2002 hull, so the balconies are smaller than on a new ship, and the lower ones are overlooked from the decks above.
Aft-View Extended Balcony
The same cabin with a much deeper balcony facing directly astern, over the wake. The best outdoor space on the ship short of a suite, and there are not many. The trade is real: aft cabins sit above the engines and the propellers, so they generally carry more vibration than anywhere else on board.
Ocean Suite
A larger cabin with a sitting area, a bath and a bigger balcony. It is a big room rather than an entry into anything - it does not admit you to the Byron Beach Club or to the suite services that come with it, which is the distinction most people assume the word suite covers.
Byron Beach Suite
Five grades, from a vista suite up to the presidential, and what they share is the Byron Beach Club: a gated deck area with its own pool and bar, kept over from the ship's P&O Australia years. The club is the point of the tier. Suites are also charged the higher daily gratuity rate.
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