Mr. Klein said part of the problem is that the ships use vacuum toilets and if passengers (particularly those on upper decks) flush anything down the toilet other than human waste or toilet paper, the line of pipes from the top cabins to the bottom (and usually several cabins across) stop working.
Zuckerman narrates these last three books from his mountain-top cabin, eight miles away from Athena College, where EI Lonoff was a renowned faculty member when they first met.
Nearby (at KM80 on the Panamerican Highway), Miriam's Quetzals (doubles from $60 B&B) provides old-school Costa Rican hospitality: simple, pretty mountain-top cabins in gardens thick with birds and moss, and comida tipica (plenty of fabulous rice and beans, eggs, plantain, juices) in the no-frills restaurant-with-views.
On sand-dusted Ko Lipe, Castaway offers swaying hammocks, resident masseurs, shady waterside pavilions and thatch-topped cabins that look onto a vista of lilting waters and bobbing long-tail boats.
Errol got a first look at the settlement, a handful of tiny homes made of assorted scavenged materials, driftwood, parts of wrecked boats two had roofs like the tops of cabin cruisers and surrounded by substantial piles of crawfish traps.
A black leather headliner tops the cabin, and a silver pinstripe adorns each door capping.
There's no reheating toast or eggs when you fly Cathay Pacific's top-tier cabin.
("Top Banana," anyone? "Cabin in the Sky"?) Some wish list items aren't a natural fit for Encores!, however.
Seen from the outside, the resulting cabin, top left, at just 352 square feet, suggests a friendly argument between a box and a half gable.
He says he unzipped his trousers, wriggled free, ripped off his shirt, pushed through a mass of flailing bodies to the top of the cabin, before forcing his way through an open window and struggling to the surface.
