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Saturday, January 07, 2012

MUTS Aweigh

One feature of cruising that seems missing is availability of comfortable, quiet places to sit and visit. Being smokers, the choices for us are even more bleak. There had always been a spot we enjoyed where seats were plentiful and comfy, coffee nearby and ashtrays at each table. And, the location was away from greatest noise of ship and passengers.

Princess has taken care of that. Initially, a few years back, all the comfy seats were replaced with rough, squared, heavy steel chairs. Next, the number of coffee stations were diminished. Worst of all - the line's introduction to their largest ships, one by one -- MUTS. Movies Under The Stars. See pictures.

The gigantic construction initially provided sports games and 'C' grade movies to late-nighters. After a bit of technological advancement, MUTS is now available day and night. The image is not the problem. For those of us who once enjoyed hours of quiet chit-chat with newfound friends, it's the ear-blasting behemoth speakers that feed the MUTS audio to the entire Pacific Ocean.

More later. Oh -- any suggestions that we quit smoking will be ignored / deleted.

1 Comments:

Blogger RaeVynn Sands said...

"MUTS" is why we picked the Saphire Princess for our Hawaii cruise - namely, the LACK of MUTS - over the Golden. Alas, the infection is spreading.
You two were a bright spot of our cruise, you know :)

Sail on, my friend...

Jan 7, 2012, 7:59:00 PM  

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