Cabin 1836 · Freedom of the Seas

Cabin 1836 is a Spacious Ocean View Balcony, Connecting (category CB) on Freedom of the Seas, 207 square feet plus a private balcony of 42 square feet. It sleeps up to 2. It connects to cabin 1838 through an interior door.

Cabin 1836 is a Spacious Ocean View Balcony, Connecting on Deck 12 of Freedom of the Seas, and it sits far forward. You are at the top of the passenger decks, so the pools and the open air are just up the stairs, and you feel the ship move more than anyone below you. This is a long way from the pivot, so a swell reaches you before it reaches anyone midship. Right up in the bow, a head sea can send a shudder through the hull that midship guests never feel at all. We score it 4 out of 10 for steadiness.

You are 4 cabins from the forward lift bank, starboard. Close enough to be useful, far enough that it should not keep you awake. Freedom carries four lift banks on most decks, a port and starboard pair forward and another pair aft, so you are rarely more than half a corridor from one. These are conventional lifts with call buttons in the lobby and deck buttons inside the car. Worth knowing: the cars are quiet. The lobby is not. What a cabin beside one hears is doors, waiting conversation and footfall in the corridor, heaviest when a show lets out and after the late dinner seating. Quiet scores 5 out of 10. There is enough going on nearby that a light sleeper should think about it. For getting about, 8 out of 10.

Of the 33 cabin positions on Deck 12, this is the 25th from forward. You share Deck 12 with Lime and Coconut, Arcade, Adventure Ocean and Nursery. There are 50 cabins along this deck, so the corridor is short and rarely busy.

The Spacious Ocean View Balcony, Connecting grade runs 207 square feet. The balcony adds another 42 on top of that. A balcony buys you outside space of your own and, on sea days, somewhere to sit that is not the pool deck. It is the step up most people make, and the one they find hardest to give up again.

On loyalty, this is a standard grade, so Crown and Anchor credits its base one cruise point a night. There are exactly two ways to double that: move up to a suite, or sail on your own on a double occupancy fare. Either pays two a night, and doing both pays three. Checked against the line's own published terms on 8 September 2026.

Against the rest of the ship it is noisier than three quarters of the 1,963 cabins on board and livelier in a swell than most of them. It suits families running back to the cabin several times a day. It is a poor fit for anyone who wakes when a door closes and anyone who feels motion badly.

Scored by Cruise Ship Wiki using model v1.8, from the position of this cabin relative to every public space on the ship. Each part is out of 10.