NORWEGIAN PRIMA
Get your first taste of NCL’s new class of ships, packed with daring activities and top-notch dining. Sara Macefield reports
I am enveloped in what feels like an all-consuming cocoon and as the door of the launch pod slowly slides shut, I feel a rising tide of tense anticipation.
Suddenly, a disembodied voice counts down a few excruciating seconds: three, two, one. The floor gives way and I feel myself plummeting like a stone into the inky blackness of one of Norwegian Prima’s headline attractions.
This is The Drop, billed as the world’s first freefall dry slide, spiralling 10 decks on the side of Norwegian Cruise Line’s newest ship, and I am shrieking like a banshee all the way down.
As I tumble out at the bottom and wrestle my way from the body bag-like sleeve (it’s to stop friction burns, apparently), I’m aware of a chorus of clapping from nearby diners in tribute to my screeching descent – which I acknowledge with a sweeping bow before bashfully retreating.
For cruisers who like their thrills, there are plenty on , NCL’s first new class of ship in nearly a decade and one of six such vessels to
