Cabins

The Cabins at Camp Half-Blood each represent one of the Greek Gods. Demigods attending the camp stay in the respective cabin patronized by their immortal parents.

Cabins
Intially, only twelve cabins were built for the children of the Olympians. Those of other gods or unclaimed children of the twelve would reside with the children of Hermes in Cabin Eleven. After the Second Olympian War, Percy Jackson requested that Hades and the other Greek gods be given their own cabins as well as thrones.

Cabin One: Zeus' Cabin
Zeus' Cabin (#1) is described as a marble building looking like a mausoleum, with heavy columns. The big bronze double doors are polished in such a way to provide a 'holographic' effect of lightning bolts passing across. Inside: like a temple with a fluctuating mosaic ceiling and several bronze braziers. A statue of Zeus in traditional Greek clothes is centered in the room. Counselor:
 * Jason Grace (Currently)
 * Thalia Grace (Formerly)

Cabin Two: Hera's Cabin
Hera's Cabin (#2) is a marble, formal-looking building, graceful with slim columns and designs of peacock feathers and pomegranates. It is done in a similar way to Zeus' cabin. Inside: like a temple with a large statue of Hera in the center. There are no furniture inside due to no one will ever stay in that cabin and is honorary (Hera is the goddess of marriage and "doesn't go around having affairs with mortals").

Counselor:
 * None

Cabin Three: Poseidon's Cabin
Poseidon's Cabin (#3) is a long, low building with windows facing the ocean, and looking like it's made of rough seastone, with pieces of coral at the end of the cabin and a seashell and a trident over the door. Percy described its smell to be same as the cabin at Montauk where his mother and father met. Percy also states that ther is always a sea breeze blowing through it. Inside: walls made of abalone with rows of neat bunks, and a salt water fountain given to Percy (until he cut it in half). There is also a sort of mobile of hippocampi or "fish-ponies" as Tyson says. Counselor:
 * Percy Jackson

Cabin Four: Demeter's Cabin
Demeter's Cabin (#4) is covered in flowers and tomato plants grow on the walls and doorway. It has a real grass roof. Inside, the floors are made out of grass instead of wood or concrete. There is a small garden in the middle where Demeter's children can plant their plants. Small trees line the wall, and the bunks are built into the trees.

Counselor:
 * Counselor: Katie Gardner
 * Succession: Miranda Gardiner (Currently)

Cabin Five: Ares' Cabin
Ares' Cabin (#5) is inexpertly painted red and has a large boar's head over the door with barbed wire on the roof. Inside: unknown but Annabeth mentioned it did have land mines. Counselor:
 * Clarisse La Rue

Cabin Six: Athena's Cabin
Athena's Cabin (#6) is a gray building with silver curtains and a design of an owl over the door. Inside: most of the space is devoted to maps, desks and various projects, with all the bunks shoved together against one wall, "as if sleep was not important". Percy described it as a "braniac's workshop." Counselor:
 * Annabeth Chase

Cabin Seven: Apollo's Cabin
Apollo's Cabin (#7) seems to be made of solid gold and made to glow during the daytime - it's hard to tell if the gold is reflecting light or generating it. It is unknown what the cabin looks like from the inside.

Counselor:
 * Counselor: Lee Fletcher (Deceased)
 * Succession: Michael Yew (Missing, presumed dead)
 * Succession: Will Solace (Currently)

Cabin Eight: Artemis' Cabin
Artemis' Cabin (#8) is an all silver building with silver curtains, similar to the outfit of the Hunters. It also glows silver during night time as if reflecting the moon, but looks like a normal cabin in the day. Because Artemis is a virgin goddess, she doesn't have children of her own; however the cabin is used by the Hunters when they visit camp.

Counselor:
 * Counselor: Zoë Nightshade (Deceased)
 * Succession: Thalia Grace (Currently)

Cabin Nine: Hephaestus' Cabin
Hephaestus' Cabin (#9) looks like a small factory, with brick walls and smokestacks like the forges and lots of gears around the entrance. Inside: "Steel bunks were folded against the walls like high-tech Murphy beds. Each had a digital control panel, blinking LED lights, glowing gems, and interlocking gears. A fire pole comes down from the second floor. A circular staircase led down into some kind of basement. The walls were lined with every kind of power tool imaginable, plus a huge assortment of weaponry. A large workbench overflowed with scrap metal---screws, bolts, washers, nails, rivets, and a million other machine parts." Counselor:
 * Counselor: Charles Beckendorf (Deceased)
 * Succession: Jake Mason (Stepped down willingly)
 * Succession: Leo Valdez (Currently)

Cabin Ten: Aphrodite's Cabin
Aphrodite's Cabin (#10) is a wooden cabin with a painted blue roof, checkerboard floors and smells heavily of designer perfume. Piper describes it as "a giant Barbie house where supermodels go to die." Inside: "It is described as a life-size dollhouse with pink walls and white window trim. The lace curtains are pastel blue and green which of course matched the sheets and feather comforters on all the beds. The guys had one row of bunks separated by a curtain, but their section of the cabin was just as neat and orderly as the girls'. The cabin is always clean except for under the beds, which had chocolate wrappers, love notes, and other things under them. Every camper had a wooden camp chest at the foot of their bunk with their name painted on it. The only other bit of individualism was how the campers had decorated their private bunk spaces. Each had slightly different pictures tacked up of whatever celebrities they thought were hot. A few had personal photos, too, but most were actors or singers or whatever.

Counselor:
 * Counselor: Silena Beauregard (Deceased)
 * Succession: Drew (Forced to step down)
 * Succession: Piper McLean (Currently)

Cabin Eleven: Hermes' Cabin
Hermes' Cabin (#11) has peeling brown paint and a caduceus over the door. It is probably in such bad shape because it was so over-populated. Once more demigods started getting claimed and the minor gods' cabins were built, space conditions improved. However, the cabin still is a fun place to hang out.

Counselor:
 * Counselor: Luke (Deceased)
 * Succession: Travis and Connor Stoll (Current Co-counselors)

Cabin Twelve: Dionysus' Cabin
Dionysus' Cabin (#12) has its roof and walls lined with grape vines. Counselor:
 * Counselor: Castor (Deceased)
 * Succession: Pollux (Currently)

Cabin Thirteen: Hades' Cabin
Hades' Cabin (#13) is a windowless cabin made of solid obsidian, with heavy columns and torches that burn green Greek fire twenty-four hours a day and has a skull over the door. Counselor:
 * Counselor: Nico di Angelo

Cabin Fourteen: Iris' Cabin
Iris' Cabin (#14) The children of Iris stay here, but it is unknown at this time what it looks like.

Counselor:
 * Counselor: Butch

Cabin Fifteen: Hypnos' Cabin
Hypnos' Cabin (#15) Described by Jason as an old-fashioned prairie house. It has mud thatched walls and rush roof. Red poppies over the door entrance. Inside: soft violin music plays, warm beds with soft feather pillows, and a branch from a poplar tree dipped in water from the River Lethe (the symbol of Hypnos).

Counselor:
 * Counselor: Clovis

Cabin Sixteen: Nemesis' Cabin
It is unknown at this time what it looks like.

Counselor:
 * Unknown

Cabin Seventeen: Nike's Cabin
It is unknown at this time what it looks like. Counselor:
 * Unknown

Cabin Eighteen: Hebe's Cabin
It is unknown at this time what it looks like. Counselor:
 * Unknown

Cabin Nineteen: Tyche's Cabin
Tyche's Cabin (#19) the Goddess of fortune's children reside here. Rick Riordan describes it as looking like a miniature Vegas casino. Like the cabins for many other minor gods, it is never described or even mentioned in the series.

Counselor:
 * Unknown

Cabin Twenty: Hecate's Cabin
Hecate's Cabin (#20) looks normal but is built from blocks of stone with magic inscriptions written on them. When the blocks are dropped, they explode or turn anyone within a mile radius into trees. Counselor:
 * Counselor: Lou Ellen

Cabin Placement
Due to Hestia and Hades' lack of thrones on Mount Olympus, neither had cabins. In addition, after reforms made by Percy Jackson in The Last Olympian, cabins for Hades, Hecate, Nemesis, Iris, Morpheus, Hebe, Eris, Hypnos and many other minor gods were constructed. There are now in total 20 cabins. Where the first 12 made a U shape with the addition of 8 more cabins it now makes an omega shape. It is presumed that they are still making cabins for the other gods and goddesses.


 * It should be noted that Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, has a fire pit in the mess hall. Percy sees the goddess on his first day at camp, but doesn't really notice her as he thought she was a nymph.
 * Cabins on the left side are odd numbers and cabins on the right side are even numbers (male odd & female even- Dionysus #12 would be a female cabin, but Hestia gave her throne up for him this is right).
 * The cabins are in order from where their parent sits on the Olympian council.
 * In the movie version, the cabins are not in the same position or same form.

Hermes' Acceptance Policy
Hermes' cabin has an acceptance policy stating that any undetermined camper can stay inside. Therefore, Half-bloods whose immortal parent has not claimed them or whose immortal parent is a minor god would stay in the Hermes cabin. Percy briefly stayed in the Hermes cabin.

After the minor cabins were built, it is assumed that the policy then only covered the unclaimed. All new campers stay in the Hermes cabin until they are claimed by their immortal parent.

This was the way until Percy requested that all demigods are claimed before they turn 13 and that the minor gods and Hades' demigods have their own cabin. (End of The Last Olympian)

Trivia

 * The Cabin placement used to be shaped into a inverted 'U' shape before the construction of the cabins for the minor gods and goddesses of Olympus. The cabins were described in The Lost Hero was shaped like an Omega after the construction.
 * Although Percy mentioned a cabin built for Morpheus in The Last Olympian, it is nonexistent according to Rick Riordan's website. Instead, cabins for Nike and Hebe are present.
 * Not all gods have cabins, despite what Percy said in The Last Olympian. However, cabins belonging to the other minor gods may not have been built yet.
 * It should be noted that at the end of The Last Olympian, Percy asked for a cabin for Janus to be built at Camp Half-Blood; however, Janus isn't even a Greek god. He is Roman.