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Norwegian Epic: Part 1-Activities
July 13th, 2010
There has been a lot of talk for over a year about the groundbreaking Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) ship Norwegian Epic. It finally sailed over July 4th and teentraveltalk.com’s founder/editor Luisa Frey sailed aboard the inaugural cruise.
Here is Luisa’s take on the aspects of the 4,100-passenger Norwegian Epic that people like you will and will not like.
WATERSLIDES & OTHER ACTIVE PURSUITS
Norwegian Epic’s Aqua Park will not disappoint. With three enclosed slides, Epic’s water park area is pretty impressive for a cruise ship. The best of the slides is the Epic Plunge, which NCL calls the “longest bowl slide at sea”. We call it the “toilet bowl” because you swirl around in your tube in this bowl-like structure until you suddenly plunge down the last part of the enclosed slide. Tip: Try to get on line soon after the slides open up each day to avoid long waits. (Your daily program aboard ship will list the hours.)
If the toilet bowl is not your choice of active things to do outdoors, then check out the rock climbing wall or the first rappelling wall at sea. The sports deck area also has a basketball court and batting cage.
Indoors there is a small ice skating rink to keep you cool on a hot Caribbean day. You and your friends or family can have friendly competitions at one of the six indoor bowling lanes or at the huge Wii wall located in one of the public lounges.
TEEN ROOM
The Epic’s teen room – called Entourage — has by far the best view of any young adult room at sea. Most teen rooms are right by the little kids’ rooms but this one is in a totally different spot, making it private.
What’s best is that three sides of it have floor to ceiling windows with full views of the ocean or port. In the center are Sony PlayStations and couches, Fussball and air hockey. There are even vending machines for when you’re hungry but don’t want to make the trek to the buffet.
Like on most big cruise ships, there are teen activities throughout the day and night too.
