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By Wladyslaw Sojka - Own work, FAL, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60568001 My family and I went to Stockholm for a fall vacation. We stayed there from Friday to Saturday night. We got a travel package from Silja Line, which we all used for the first time. There wasn't much choice in the cabins, though it would have been wiser to choose better than a Class C cabin for the outbound trip. Never again. I don't remember ever traveling in Class C before, and it was awful. The noise of the engines wasn't bothersome at all. But there was noise from the car deck above us: alarms from cars, and in addition, on the open sea, an unbelievably loud banging at irregular intervals - as if there was something heavy hanging loose, crashing against a bulkhead. We went on the Symphony and returned on the Serenade. Overall, they felt like floating Stockmann department stores (an upmarket chain based in Finland), with accommodation and more restaurants than usual, and you could only exit a