Which ship are you in the E catagory - Mariner? The rooms are almost all the same on that ship unless you get a Mariner Suite or Aft Suite, I beleve. It's all location. Any of the rooms on Mariner are terrific.
On our Montreal/NYC cruise, we did a lot of the longer excursions. There is a long review by Masaki of this trip that is excellent. We did many of the excursions he did.