I want to be clear on this, this is not a complaint at all. This is merely a cautionary tale that I would have never considered to be an issue on a trip in this price range. I would have been extremely dissatisfied had I paid for the additional expense of a full balcony on this trip. however, I am glad that I booked the sliding glass patio door without balcony option just because it was nice to have the door open while we were underway during daytime running. We did find that trying to figure out ways of obtaining over the counter medications such as Tylenol and Motrin were very difficult in Europe. apparently some of the countries, especially Austria, have a tight control on which types of stores get to sell it. you must go to a pharmacy to buy over the counter medications as it turns out. We also wish that we would have brought along a heating pad with us to help with aches and pains as well as a thera massager or one of the impulse massagers. lessons we have learned as we are getting older now :)