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The Norwegian Spirit is an interesting ship. It started its life as the SuperStar Leo from Star Cruises in 1999 serving the Asian market.
However, in 2004, a NCL ship called the Pride of America partially sank during construction in Germany. This set off a chain reaction of NCL ships being needed for other planned routes, and finally they were one ship short.
Star Cruises, the parent company of Norwegian Cruise Line, refitted the SuperStar Leo and renamed it the Norwegian Spirit.
One interesting thing about the Norwegian Spirit is that they left the Asian influences for the most part. The decor throughout the ship is Chinese-influenced and there is even a mah-jongg room. Many of the restaurants are Asian influenced too.
I was recently in Maui staying near Lahaina on the West coast of the island. (It was my first trip to Hawaii and was great by the way).
Moored off-shore during my stay were quite a few cruise ships. I wasn’t able to get a good video of them, but here is the Golden Princess anyways (note I couldn’t actually find any pics of it in Lahaina itself so these are from all over).
The Golden Princess is one of the Grand Class of ships for Princess cruiselines. It entered service in 2001 and was Christened by Dr. Quinn herself, Jane Seymour.
It mostly operates on the Mexican Riviera and the West coast of the US and Canada. This particular trip that I saw was from Los Angeles to Hawaii.
At 109,000 gross tonnes and 951 feet in length, its a pretty large ship. It holds 2,600 passengers and 1,100 crew. It has 17 decks.
The Golden Princess has 3 pools, both indoor and outdoor. One good feature, both for teens and non-teens is that there is a teen-only sun deck.
The Celebrity Solstice left the Meyer Werft dockyard in Papenburg Germany this week. It travelled down the river Ems backwards, which is what is going on in this shot.
The Solstice is massive: it is 1,033 feet long and 122,000 (!) tonnes. It has a capacity of 2,850 passengers.
When it undocked from Papenburg, there were apparently 100,000 onlookers as it travelled down the river.
One standout of the Solstice is it has a “Lawn Club” which, like the name implies, is a live lawn up on the top deck. If you’ve ever wanted to have a picnic or play Bocce while on a cruise ship, and really who hasn’t, the Lawn Club is there.
