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Cruise ship Karaoke hits sour note
Norwegian Cruise Line’s new mega-ship has a rash of amenities and just about every amusement ever found in an ocean-going vessel ranging from a spa to a rock climbing wall.
But why did they leave out the Karaoke bar?
“A mainstay of the 10 other Norwegian ships sailing from the Caribbean to Europe, karaoke won’t have a big presence — if any — on the line’s new, 4,100-passenger flagship, say
Norwegian staffers (unlike on the line’s Jewel Class ships, where passengers’ karaoke crooning wafts into a main thoroughfare almost nightly from a prominently-placed lounge),” says Gene Sloan in USA TODAY
Karaoke is, they hint, no longer the hot commodity it used to be.
A Norwegian spokeswoman tells USA TODAY passengers looking for an impromptu, karaoke-bar-type musical vibe on Epic have Headliners, a lively club on Norwegian Epic that is home to a Howl at the Moon dueling piano show.
Bigger than all but a handful of Royal Caribbean ships, Epic is scheduled to be christened this week in New York City by country music’s Reba McEntire before heading to Miami to operate seven-night Caribbean cruises.
By David Wilkening
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