Siobhan Downes/Stuff
The new Norwegian Prima cruise ship has a three-level racetrack, a theatre that transforms into a nightclub, and some of the scariest slides at sea.
Like most of my fellow passengers boarding the newly refurbished Norwegian spirit on a baking hot afternoon in Lautoka, Fiji, it had been three years since I’d been on a cruise ship.
That’s also the amount of time it had been since a Norwegian ship has been in Australasia.
While the spectre of Covid was all around us – (each passenger had to show proof of vaccination and increased hygiene measures were evident throughout) – there was no other indication of the virus that shut down the entire industry for close to two years.
If there’s ever an upside to a pandemic it might be that travel felt exciting again.
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