Water Slides in Winter????

[HodgeNNicole]

We are sailing on the Navigator in December.

Kids are wondering if the water slides will be open?  

Anyone have any insight for us???

[neverbeenhere]

Open. Unless LA is 32 degrees

[Biker19]

7 hours ago, neverbeenhere said:

Open. Unless LA is 32 degrees

Most water related activities (not hut tub) shut down below 50F or 10C.

[leaveitallbehind]

...and as she is heading south to Mexico on her itineraries the temps will be getting hotter as she sails.  

[ahahn078]

11 hours ago, HodgeNNicole said:

We are sailing on the Navigator in December.

Kids are wondering if the water slides will be open?  

Anyone have any insight for us???

 

The water slides will be open whenever the temperatures are above 50F. You're sailing South, so you shouldn't have to worry about temperatures falling below the 50F threshold. 

 

[HodgeNNicole]

Thanks for the help.

I pay extra for the California weather living here, so I hope it is over 50 degrees!!! LOL

[doghog]

On 9/2/2024 at 9:22 PM, HodgeNNicole said:

We are sailing on the Navigator in December.

Kids are wondering if the water slides will be open?  

Anyone have any insight for us???

If they freeze, think luge.😁 

[leaveitallbehind]

1 hour ago, doghog said:

If they freeze, think luge.😁 

Careful - you may just have given RCL another venue idea......

[dragontrainer]

1 hour ago, leaveitallbehind said:

Careful - you may just have given RCL another venue idea......

Based on the demand we've seen for pickleball on ships, they could turn Studio B into just pickleball courts and the pool deck and waterslides into the ice skating venue.

 

Discovery #2 could be launched as Pickleball of the Seas and be the most profitable ship in the fleet. 

[leaveitallbehind]

2 hours ago, dragontrainer said:

Based on the demand we've seen for pickleball on ships, they could turn Studio B into just pickleball courts and the pool deck and waterslides into the ice skating venue.

 

Discovery #2 could be launched as Pickleball of the Seas and be the most profitable ship in the fleet. 

That might push the RCI family demographic into a HAL demographic....LOL

[dragontrainer]

29 minutes ago, leaveitallbehind said:

That might push the RCI family demographic into a HAL demographic....LOL

I would agree with that 5-10 years ago, but based on parks around us, and especially the lines on Symphony and Harmony recently, pickleball is right in the Royal family target and age demographics.  Parents and grandparents are bringing kids to ice skating on the ships, but they're actually lining up and playing pickleball with them (in 10-minute bursts).

 

Friends that are in the 30s-40s single dating scene tell me pickleball has become a popular meetup and get-to-know-you activity.  

 

And if you can tell the HAL crowd they can play pickleball and take their grandkids on a cruise together?  It'd be like printing money.