seattledbrain

I forgot about the waterfront! I barely used the waterfront on Bliss until the last day, thanks for reminding me! I hope they replace laser tag with Spice H2O. As a regular passenger not paying for anything extra, it's a little upsetting to see that you only get to use about one-fifth of the total deck space on the top level. I mean, Vibe and Haven take up a huge area up top, and then to take away the remainder for laser tag and go-carts seems a little absurd. Why is laser tag even outdoors? Isn't half the fun seeing the lasers pierce through the artificial fog in a dark enclosed area? I also find the go-carts to be very underwhelming, you can't see the water at all from the track. I'd much rather have a tiny roller coaster like they have on Carnival, because then you get the thrill of realizing you're perched high above the water. Plus that would free up a ton of deck space.

I'm sailing Encore in a couple weeks, and I was disappointed to see that there's no Spice H2o. On Bliss I enjoyed hanging out at the rear of the ship and watching the scenery go by. Looking at photos, there is a section with a rail that is outside the laser tag walls. Can I stand there if I'm not waiting to play laser tag?

I do not doubt that cookies are the biggest source of *publicly visible* food waste, but if NCL bothered to do proper analytics on this they’d probably find that cookies actually prevent a huge amount of food waste. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been craving a small sweet treat after dinner, and I pace around the buffet, thinking that nothing looks very good. I grab a couple of items, take a bite out of each, and as suspected, they aren’t very good, so I waste them. I sometimes cut them up with my fork to try to disguise the fact that the entire dish went to waste. I end up walking up to the poor cookie guardian and begging for cookies. If they’re out of cookies, I might even make a late trip to the MDR to try a couple of desserts there, but they’re rarely good and are often wasted as well. Keep in mind I would never be this wasteful on land, but I have a serious sweet tooth and I will not stop until it’s satisfied. A couple of cookies is all I need, it’s not very complicated. I’ve run into the same issue with food. The non-specialty food on NCL is so hit or miss that I end up wasting tons of meat because I literally cannot swallow it. If they’d just make it right the first time, there would be much less waste. I find the F&B culture on NCL to be very perplexing. I think there are many cases of middle management striving greatly to *appear* to be achieving sustainable development goals set by corporate, but if a real numbers person took a look, they'd realize that it's mostly just for show.