Norwegian Majesty Cruise Ship Boston to Bermuda
Sunday July 31 -> Sunday August 7
The Norwegian Majesty
* 2 pools
* All food included for free
* 24 hour pizzeria / burgers/ hotdogs / ice cream by pool
* Other fancy restaurants for the daring :)
* All kids will have a "soda sticker" entitling them to unlimited free soda
The grandparents are in a "floating" double - i.e. they will not know where it is actually located until they show up at the dock. The remaining 11 of us are in 3 rooms - 2 quads and a triple. These rooms all have windows. You can see how they are located here:
The kids will all be on Caribbean deck and the parents will be immediately above them on the Biscane deck. The stairs are right there so it will be a 30 second walk between rooms. These are the lowest floors, meaning they are the most "stable" as far as feeling movement goes.
NOTE! Cruise ship rooms are notoriously small. The 4 person rooms have 2 twin beds and then 2 twin bunks up above them. So pack light :)
The Norwegian Majesty actually began life as the Royal Majesty, for Majesty Cruise Lines, and was built in Finland in 1992. It was originally built as a car ferry and then was redesigned for 3-4 night cruises from Florida. By 1995 it did the Boston - Bermuda run - Bermuda only gave this permission if the ship promised to only dock in St. George's.
NCL bought it in 1997 for $110 million, renamed it, and retained the rights to the Bermuda-Boston run. So the ship's already done quite a bit of service :)
While I'm on the topic, there was a REALLY cool story about the Majesty in this book that I wanted to share. It happened in June 1995. By that point they had GPS navigation systems on the bridge, and nav buoys in the water. The navigator would point the ship at a buoy, give it an arrival time, and the ship would maintain the course and speed to do that. Well, the night they were returning to Boston, the GPS unit malfunctioned and nobody bothered to LOOK OUT THE WINDOWS. They only noticed a problem when the ship ran aground on the Rose and Crown shoal off of Nantucket island, he he he!! :)
"Oh look, why are we heading towards those pretty lights?"
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