Regal Princess

Regal shares its deck plan with Royal Princess and the later Royal-class ships, and most of the location advice in these threads is about the class rather than this hull. The cabins posters ask about most are the ones Princess labels obstructed. A 2015 question about Emerald-deck balcony E620 (and E614 beside it) on Regal was answered by someone who had the equivalent cabin on Royal Princess: the balcony sits at the end of a lifeboat, so the obstruction is mostly the launching gear and only gets in the way when looking straight down. A 2026 poster found a deluxe obstructed balcony on Regal priced barely above an ocean view on a competing ship, and a 2025 thread mentions Royal-class balcony upgrades being unusually cheap, so the obstructed categories are where posters find the value. The forward-facing mini-suites at the bow are a different case: their obstruction is a solid rail rather than glass, which blocks the view down but not out unless lying on a lounger, and a 2020 thread called them very windy under way and prone to rocking badly in weather, with one couple seasick for the whole trip. A video of Regal's L101 was the reference posters passed around.

Noise and motion advice follows the usual logic with one class-specific point: a 2022 reply noted that Royal-class cabin corridors do not carry the walk-through traffic of Grand-class ships, so a cabin set back from the elevators is quiet enough. That thread was started by a couple who had chosen a mid-forward deluxe balcony on Aloha (deck 12) to have cabins above and below, only to be moved by Princess to a mini-suite further forward on Lido (deck 16). Replies said this automatic 'upgrade' is routine, that a travel agent can flag a booking no-upgrade to prevent it, and that a Lido cabin with open deck rather than cabins overhead may hear chairs being set out early in the morning and nightclub noise late. The ship is described as stable unless very far forward. Mini-suites on the class come with a full sofa and a bathtub instead of a shower, which several posters prefer, and a 2025 poster recalled Princess pricing mini-suites out of Galveston below an inside cabin on the Carnival ship leaving the next day, though Regal has since left that port. Groups booking several cabins together should know that Princess kept separating one family's three cabins on a Royal-class sailing until they called repeatedly. A January 2026 Royal Princess review adds that the corridors are narrow and often blocked by service carts, and that cabins have a large closet with room for suitcases under the bed.