I'm looking to book another cruise and noticed something I'd not noticed before when I'd booked our last cruise: oversize verandahs with whitewalls? Not sure if its because we were in the family stateroom that slept 5 so that type of stateroom wasn't even an option? This time I think it will just be 4 of us going and won't necessarily need a room that sleeps 5. So specifically my questions are: 1) are the verandah sizes noticeably different from what we had before? and 2) will we notice a big difference in the room size from going from the 299 sft to the 246 sft stateroom? Oh, and does anyone know when cruise itineraries for Oct 2016 will be posted?