Can you avoid the crowds on the 4,004-passenger luxury ‘resort’ cruise ship Norwegian Bliss?
Yes, it seems, as there’s so much to do on board 994-foot liner set to cruise in Caribbean – including 33 places to eat – that everyone will be somewhere else
Is it possible to get away from a crowd of 4,004 passengers and 1,716 crew aboard a 994-foot (300 metres) cruise ship?
A cruise ship that boasts the longest (at 1,000 feet) electric go-kart racetrack at sea?
A veritable seagoing resort with an open-air laser tag course, themed as an abandoned space station.
An Aqua Park with two pools and two multi-storey water slides (one of which includes a free-fall followed by a loop overboard that will leave you – assuming your heart did not faint back there at the free-fall part – grinning uncontrollably for a good 90 minutes thereafter).
No fewer than 33 places to eat, drink and dessert (yes, it is worth using as a verb here), including, perhaps most pleasantly unexpected for a high-seagoing vessel, a high-plains Texas smokehouse, called Q, where you can pass the sauces and listen to country music each night.
Not to mention a smoking (and non-smoking) casino, Broadway-calibre shows (the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys, anyone?), a spa with 24 treatment rooms, six infinity hot tubs, a fitness centre … and the Beatles (cover band) warming up in a facsimile of The Cavern Club, “inspired by the Liverpool club where the Beatles performed frequently in the 1960s”.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know.
But is it possible to get away from all of that on a 168,000-tonne, 136-foot wide, 20-deck cruise ship? Some place where it is possible to just enjoy the cool sea breezes, the flaming sunsets and the stars at night?
Yes.
Norwegian Cruise Line’s new Bliss is so big, and offers so much to do that everybody is likely to be somewhere else when you want a quiet moment or two alone