YOU always thought cruising was about heading to warmer climes, didn’t you? Not so, at least when it comes to the newest on-board spa trend – the “snow room”. Norwegian Cruise Line’s brand new Norwegian Escape boasts the super-chilled facility which is kept at minus ten degrees Celsius – and...
YOU always thought cruising
was about heading to warmer
climes, didn’t you?
Not so, at least when it comes
to the newest on-board spa
trend – the “snow room”.
Norwegian Cruise Line’s
brand new Norwegian Escape
boasts the super-chilled facility
which is kept
at minus ten degrees Celsius
– and there’s apparently not a
shot of vodka in sight.
Located in the ship’s Mandara
Spa, the icy enclave features
“flurries of powdery snow”
falling from the ceiling, and is
apparently very good for aches
and pains.
There’s also a sauna, and the
idea is to go from hot to cold
which has the effect of dilating
and constricting blood vessels
which is good for circulation.
Norwegian’s snow room isn’t
the first such on-board spa
feature, with Viking Ocean
Cruises’ Viking Star debuting the
concept in Apr on a cruise line.
And the 2,800 passenger Baltic
ferry Viking Grace, which plies
the route between Finland and
Sweden, also has a snow room.
If you want to take the concept
home, a company in the UAE
called “Desert Snow” will also
install one for you – for about the
same price as a luxury car.
