The Cabins, also known as Divine Cabins, at Camp Half-Blood each represent one of the Greek gods and goddesses. Demigods attending the camp stay in the respective cabins patronized by their immortal parents.
Initially, only twelve cabins were built for the children of the Olympians. Those of other minor gods or unclaimed children of the twelve would reside with the children of Hermes in Cabin Eleven. After the Second Titan War, Percy Jackson requested that Hades and the minor gods be given their own cabins as well. Now there are twenty cabins at Camp Half-Blood as of The Hidden Oracle, but Jason Grace was planning to get cabins for all minor gods and goddesses. It is unknown if the plans for these cabins even survived after his death, as Apollo only managed to salvage his blueprints of Camp Jupiter.
In Camp Half-Blood Confidential, Annabeth built customizable, modular cabins for the children of Nike, Hebe, Tyche, and Hecate.
Cabins[]
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. It also thunders all the time. It is described as looking like a bank.
Inside: The interior has a dome-shaped ceiling that is decorated with moving mosaics of a cloudy sky and thunderbolts. A statue of Zeus in a traditional Greek chiton is centered in the room. Jason Grace describes it as looking like a glaring hippie that was ten feet tall and has sight of every place in the room except a corner where Thalia Grace had put her sleeping bag, and a few photos of herself, Luke Castellan, and Annabeth Chase when they were younger. It has alcoves with golden eagle statues. There is no furniture in there at all.
Counselor
- Thalia Grace (former)
- Jason Grace (former; deceased)
Cabin Two: Hera's Cabin[]
Hera's Cabin (#2) is a marble, formal-looking building, graceful with slim columns garlanded with pomegranates and flowers. It is done similarly to her husband Zeus' cabin except smaller. However, Hera's cabin is more graceful, having slimmer columns with pomegranates and flowers around them. The walls and doors also have images of peacocks carved on them.
Inside: The interior has a large statue of Hera in the center with a fire pit at its feet, like a temple. There is no furniture inside because no one will ever stay in that cabin, which is strictly honorary (Hera is the goddess of marriage and "doesn't run around having affairs with mortals. That's her husband's job").
Cabin Three: Poseidon's Cabin[]
Poseidon's Cabin (#3) is a long, low building with windows facing the ocean. The cabin is made from rough sea stone, pieces of coral and seashell embedded into the outside walls, and a trident with a big bronze number 3 over the door. Percy described its smell of the cabin similar to the cabin at Montauk, where his mother and father met. Percy also states that there is always a good sea breeze blowing through it.
Inside: The interior has walls made of abalone. There are six neat bunk beds with silk sheets and a saltwater fountain that was made out of gray sea rock, had a fish that spouts the water from its mouth, and had a coral decoration. The bottom was filled with golden drachmas for Iris message, although it is unknown if the coins will ever run out. Percy later sliced the fountain in half. There is also a sort of mobile of hippocampi or "fish-ponies" as Tyson calls them. He also added unknown underwater plants and corals, sitting in the window sill, "more beautiful than the Demeter kids could whip up," Percy commented.
Counselor
- Percy Jackson (former)
Other Campers
Cabin Four: Demeter's Cabin[]
Demeter's Cabin (#4) is covered in flowers and tomato plants grow on the walls and doorway. Wildflowers and roses grow on the porch. It has a real grass roof. The cabin is colored a light shade of brown.
Inside: The interior has a grass floor and an oak tree in the center to hold up the ceiling.
Counselor
- Miranda Gardiner (current)
- Katie Gardner (former)
Other Campers
- Meg McCaffrey
- Billie Ng
- Steve
- Douglas
Cabin Five: Ares' Cabin[]
Ares' Cabin (#5) is badly painted red and has a large boar's head over the door with barbed wire on the roof. There have been mentions of the cabin being lined with land mines. Rock music is constantly blaring from it. It's unknown what it looks like on the inside.
Counselor
- Sherman Yang (current)
- Clarisse La Rue (former)
Other Campers
- Mark
- Ellis Wakefield
- Arnold Beefcake (former, in the 1950s)
- Unnamed Ares female camper (former, in the 1950s)
- Other children of Ares
Cabin Six: Athena's Cabin[]
Athena's Cabin (#6) is a gray building with plain white curtains and a design of an owl over the door.
Inside: The interior has a workshop and a library. The library is filled with thousands of books and old scrolls, as well as tables and chairs for demigods to study and read. The workshop is crammed with tables and workbenches, and the cupboards are filled with materials to build things. There are also several 3-D models of buildings, blueprints, old war maps, and armor. It was later said that the cabin was also filled with SMART boards and other things typically found in classrooms, with all the bunks shoved together against one wall, "as if sleep was not important". Percy described it as a "brainiac's workshop."
Counselor
- Annabeth Chase (former)
- Malcolm Pace (current)
Other Campers
- Bea Wise (former, in the 1950s)
- Other children of Athena
Cabin Seven: Apollo's Cabin[]
Apollo's Cabin (#7) is 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.
Inside: The interior has bunk beds on either side with a cot in the middle of the cabin for the injured. Rough cedar beams that rib the ceiling and the white plaster walls are bare except for a few hooks for coats and weapons. It smells of clean linen and dried sage. The cabin is described as modest by Apollo. The only decorations are some flowerpots on the windowsill, filled with cheerful yellow blooms from the island of Delos. They only grow in and around the cabin. Will has a bookshelf to keep reference materials about his father Apollo to share with new campers. One of the flowerpots is filled with red and purple hyacinths.
Counselor
- Lee Fletcher (former; deceased)
- Michael Yew (former; deceased)
- Will Solace (current)
Other Campers
- Austin Lake
- Kayla Knowles
- Yan
- Gracie
- Jerry
- Other children of Apollo
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. It is decorated with paintings and carvings of wild animals, but mostly the stag. Artemis does not have children of her own and the cabin is honorary; however it is used by the Hunters, the adopted children of Artemis when they visit the camp. It's unknown what it looks like on the inside.
Counselor
- Zoë Nightshade (former; deceased)
- Thalia Grace (current)
Other Campers
- Phoebe (deceased)
- Bianca di Angelo (deceased)
- Reyna Ramírez-Arellano
- Other Hunters
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: The interior has folded steel bunks against the walls that Leo describes to be like "high-tech Murphy beds". Each bed has a digital control panel, blinking LED lights, glowing gems, and interlocking gears. It has shiny metal walls and metal slated doors. It is noted for being unclean and messy, filled with junk most of the time. A fire pole comes down from the second floor, although from the outside, the extra floor is not visible. A circular staircase leads down into some kind of basement. The walls are lined with every kind of power tool imaginable and a huge assortment of weaponry. A workbench overflows with scrap metal, screws, bolts, washers, nails, rivets, and a million other machine parts. There is also a tunnel underneath. It is associated with Bunker Nine. The most famous demigod son of Hephaestus was Archimedes.
Counselor
- Charles Beckendorf (former; deceased)
- Jake Mason (former; resigned)
- Leo Valdez (former)
- Nyssa Barrera (current)
Other Campers
- Shane
- Christopher
- Harley
- Heloise (former, in the 1950s)
- Many other children of Hephaestus
Cabin Ten: Aphrodite's Cabin[]
Aphrodite's Cabin (#10) is a wooden cabin with a painted blue roof, pillars, checkerboard deck with steps and gray walls. It also has a pink door and potted carnations by the window. It also smells heavily of designer perfume. Piper describes it as "a giant Barbie house where supermodels go to die."
Inside: The interior has pink walls with white window trim. There is also lace curtains that are pastel blue and green which match the sheets and feather comforters on all the beds. The guys have 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 have chocolate wrappers, love notes, and other things under them. Every camper has 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 has slightly different pictures tacked up of whatever celebrities they thought were hot. A few have personal photos, too, but most were actors or singers.
Counselor
- Silena Beauregard (former; deceased)
- Drew Tanaka (former; stepped down)
- Piper McLean (former)
Other Campers
- Mitchell
- Lacy
- Valentina Diaz
- James Dean (former, in the 1950s)
- Other children of Aphrodite
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. The cabin is packed at all times. It has at least one bedroom with two twin beds, a wooden nightstand in between the two beds with a Grecian urn on it, a trunk at the end of the bed, Winged Shoes hung on a hook, a wooden desk and a chair, and curtains on the windows for privacy. Posters, pictures, a sword, a map of Camp Half-Blood and a calendar hangs on the wall. Once more demigods started getting claimed and the minor gods' cabins were built, space conditions improved.
Counselor
- Luke Castellan (former; deceased)
- Connor Stoll (current)
- Travis Stoll (former co-counselor with Connor)
Other Campers
- Chris Rodriguez
- Cecil Markowitz
- Julia Feingold
- Alice Miyazawa
- Percy Jackson (former)
- Nico di Angelo (former)
- Other children of Hermes and/or unclaimed demigods
Cabin Twelve: Dionysus' Cabin[]
Dionysus' Cabin (#12) has its roof and walls lined with grapevines. It is unknown what it looks like on the inside.
Counselor
Cabin Thirteen: Hades' Cabin[]
Hades' Cabin (#13) is a windowless cabin made of solid obsidian, with heavy columns and torches that burn green like Greek Fire twenty-four hours a day and has a skull over the door.
Inside: The interior has beds that resemble coffins, with mahogany frames, brass railings, and bloodred velvet blankets and pillows. According to Nico, "Apparently somebody thought that the children of Hades were vampires, not demigods." Hazel had partitioned off her side of the cabin with sheets so that "it looked like a quarantine zone," although they were most likely taken down by now.
Counselor
- Nico di Angelo (current)
Other Campers
- Hazel Levesque (temporarily)
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
- Butch Walker (current)
Other Campers
Cabin Fifteen: Hypnos' Cabin[]
Hypnos' Cabin (#15) is described by Jason as an old-fashioned prairie house. It has a rush roof and mud walls. There is a wreath of red poppies on the door.
Inside: The interior has a hearth with a crackling fire. Above the mantel hangs Hypnos' symbol: a poplar tree branch dripping water from the River Lethe, into a collection of tin bowls. Soft violin music is always playing, and the air always smells like fresh laundry. There are always plenty of warm, empty beds, all with feather pillows, fresh sheets and fluffy quilts.
Counselor
- Clovis (current)
Other Campers
- Other children of Hypnos
Cabin Sixteen: Nemesis' Cabin[]
Nemesis' Cabin (#16) There is a broken wheel above the door that resembles Pac-Man. It's unknown what it looks like on the inside.
Counselor
- Unknown
Other Campers
Cabin Seventeen: Nike's Cabin[]
The children of Nike stay here. Designed by the architect Annabeth Chase, the cabin has magical paint that can change the exterior color just by touching it. The cabin is four modules, back-to-back with two on each side, and has four entrances. The cabin also has a slanted roof and high ceilings. The cabin can be rearranged and moved as desired; this module can be as big or small as it needs to be. More campers can fit into the same amount of space as a regular cabin with more privacy and better accommodations.
Inside: The interior has four main sitting rooms with two built-in cushioned benches that double as beds, in each, and storage space underneath for their clothes, armor, and weapons. There is also built-in, programmable furniture that can be collapsed, moved, and reshaped; with the snap of their fingers, the living area can be turned into a bedroom, gym, dining room, or military command center. There is also a dozen preprogrammed interior-decorating schemes. There is also the state of the art private bathrooms with large shower. A narrow staircase leans against the back wall that leads up to the lofts with two more twin beds and extra built-in storage underneath the stairs. The loft can also be used as a meeting area, game room, whatever the campers want.
Counselor
Other Campers
- Unknown
Cabin Eighteen: Hebe's Cabin[]
The children of Hebe stay here. Designed by the architect Annabeth Chase, the cabin has magical paint that can change the exterior color just by touching it. The cabin is four modules back-to-back with two on each side, and has four entrances. The cabin also has a slanted roof and high ceilings. The cabin can be rearranged and moved as desired; this module can be as big or small as it needs to be. More campers can fit into the same amount of space as a regular cabin with more privacy and better accommodations.
Inside: The interior has four main sitting rooms with two built-in cushioned benches that double as beds, in each, and storage space underneath for their clothes, armor, and weapons. It is also built-in, programmable furniture that can be collapsed, moved and reshaped; with the snap of their fingers, the living area can be turned into a bedroom, gym, dining room, or military command center. There is also a dozen preprogrammed interior-decorating schemes and state of the art private bathrooms with large shower. A narrow staircase leans against the back wall that leads up to the lofts with two more twin beds and extra built-in storage underneath the stairs. The loft can also be used as a meeting area, game room, whatever the campers want.
Counselor
- Unknown
Other Campers
Cabin Nineteen: Tyche's Cabin[]
The children of Tyche resides here. According to Rick Riordan, the cabin looks like a miniature Las Vegas casino. The cabin has magical paint that can change the exterior color just by touching it. The cabin is four modules back-to-back with two on each side and has four entrances. The cabin also has a slanted roof and high ceilings. The cabin can be rearranged and moved as desired; this module can be as big or small as it needs to be. More campers can fit into the same amount of space as a regular cabin with more privacy and better accommodations.
Inside: The interior has four main sitting rooms with two built-in cushioned benches that double as beds, in each, and storage space underneath for their clothes, armor, and weapons. There is also built-in, programmable furniture that can be collapsed, moved, and reshaped; with the snap of their fingers, the living area can be turned into a bedroom, gym, dining room, or military command center. There is also a dozen preprogrammed interior-decorating schemes and state of the art private bathrooms with large showers. A narrow staircase leans against the back wall that leads up to the lofts with two more twin beds and extra built-in storage underneath the stairs. The loft can also be used as a meeting area, game room, whatever the campers want.
Counselor
- Unknown
Other Campers
Cabin Twenty: Hecate's Cabin[]
Hecate's Cabin (#20) looks normal but is built from blocks of stone with magic inscriptions written on them. If the blocks are dropped, they could explode or turn anyone within half a mile radius into trees. The cabin is four modules back-to-back with two on each side and has four entrances. The cabin also has a slanted roof and high ceilings. The cabin can be rearranged and moved as desired; this module can be as big or small as it needs to be. More campers can fit into the same amount of space as a regular cabin with more privacy and better accommodations.
Inside: The interior has four main sitting rooms with two built-in cushioned benches that double as beds, in each, and storage space underneath for their clothes, armor, and weapons. There is also built-in, programmable furniture that can be collapsed, moved, and reshaped; with the snap of their fingers, the living area can be turned into a bedroom, gym, dining room, or military command center. There is also a dozen preprogrammed interior-decorating schemes and state of the art private bathrooms with large showers. A narrow staircase leans against the back wall that leads up to the lofts with two more twin beds and extra built-in storage underneath the stairs. The loft can also be used as a meeting area, game room, whatever the campers want.
Counselor
- Lou Ellen Blackstone (current)
Cabin Placement[]
The cabins as shown on the website
Due to Hestia and Hades' lack of thrones on Olympus, neither had cabins. In addition, after reforms made by Percy Jackson in The Last Olympian, cabins for Hades, Hecate, Nemesis, Iris, Hebe, Nike, Tyche, Hypnos, and many other minor gods were constructed. There are now a total of 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 said 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 does not 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.).
- The cabins are in order from where their parent sits on the Olympian council.
- In the movie version, none of the cabins are in the same position or same form.
Hermes' Acceptance Policy[]
Hermes' cabin had an acceptance policy stating that any undetermined camper can stay inside. Therefore, demigods whose immortal parent had not claimed them or whose immortal parent didn't have a cabin 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.
However, Percy requested that all demigods are claimed before they turn 13 and that the minor gods and Hades' demigods have their own cabin in The Last Olympian.
Modular Cabins[]
The modular, customizable cabins are tiny micro houses that are private and each module is for a maximum of four people. There is also magical paint on the cabins that can be changed with a touch and has deep storage containers. The modular cabins are four modules back to back, two on either side and have four entrances. The modules also have a slanted roof and high ceilings. They can be rearranged and moved as desired; each cluster can be as big or small as it needs to be. More campers can fit into the same amount of space as a regular cabin with more privacy and better accommodations.
There are also two built-in cushioned benches along the walls in each module that doubled as beds and storage space underneath for their clothes, armor, and weapons. There is also programmable furniture that has built-in furniture that can be collapsed, moved, and reshaped; with the snap of their fingers, the living area can be turned into a bedroom, gym, dining room, or military command center and a dozen preprogrammed interior-decorating schemes. There is also four main sitting rooms and a narrow staircase against the back wall with more built-in storage underneath. There are two twin beds in each of the lofts that can also be used as a meeting area, game room, whatever the campers want. There are also private state-of-the-art bathrooms with large showers in the cabins.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- 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 have not 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 is not even a Greek god. He is a Roman god. The closest equivalent in Greek mythology would be Hecate- who is also affiliated with doorways.
- Unlike Camp Half-Blood that assigns demigods based on their godly parent, Camp Jupiter separates demigods (and legacies) into Cohorts normally based on their field of expertise.
- It is possible that a second ring of cabins will be made, as Percy mentioned that they probably will have to.
- Each cabin can hold up to twenty campers.
- Each of the minor gods has or will have a shrine at Camp Half-Blood according to Jason Grace.