August 30, 2025 at 10:48 am

Family Was Ready To Enjoy A Cruise For A Week, But They Quickly Realized They’d Be Getting Closer Than They Thought

by Ben Auxier

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TikTok/defnotwanichko

Cruise ship rooms are always a lot smaller per dollar than a usual hotel since it’s, yanno, a boat, and boats needs space for a lot of stuff.

So if you’re thinking about going with a budget option, REALLY consider the occupancy, or you might end up in a situation like TikTok user @defnotwanichko:

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“POV,” reads the caption, because all captions begin this way by law, “you forgot to upgrade your room and you’re about to be REAAL close for the next week.”

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TikTok/defnotwanichko

We enter a VERY small room with maaaaybe a queen mattress with floating bunks for kids above. Dad sits between two noisy boys, trying to eat his sandwich.

“Dad!”

“What?”

“I wanna sleep up here. I wanna sleep up here!”

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TikTok/defnotwanichko

“Most tiniest room,” mom reflects to herself in the bathroom, “we better really like each other.”

@defnotwanichko

But we got a heck of a deal 😂 #fyp #cruisecabin #cruise #vacation #family #oops #traveltiktok #foryou #family #momsoftiktok #viral #roomtour #carnival #mardigras #kidsoftiktok

♬ Funny – Gold-Tiger

I’m stressed on your behalf.

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Getting a little hard to breathe.

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A strange window into your experience.

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Comments had jokes.

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Guess you’d better focus on being VERY active during the day so by the time you get back to that room everybody just passes out.

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