the boat

the norwegian jade, a 900-foot-long 14 story mega boat was full of experienced life-livers, 1,000 employees, a bunch of restaurants, two pools, four hot tubs, a gym, some sun decks, a horrible cover band we called The Nametags, and much better bathrooms than those found in the United Kingdom.


many people claim that cruise cabins are teeny with teeny bathrooms. we loved our bat cave -- a huge comfy bed with high thread count sheets, a sweet porter named "michael" (not his real name, he was indonesian) who made us towel puppies and monkeys and left us ice twice a day, and a bathroom that makes my british loo look like something out of 1945 (which it most likely is).

nine reasons i love my cruise ship bathroom over my UK loo

1. the mirror in my UK toilet is the size of a porthole, while the mirror in the cruise toilet is the size of a window. ironic.
2. the shower temperature is controllable and stable and hot all the time.
3. the toilet has a power flusher, instead of the multi-pump, consta-drip POS in UK
4. the shower uses maximum space in a small area, unlike my bill-and-ted-excellent-shower-booth in my rather large bathroom upstairs.
5. the shower door prevents water from leaving the shower area and splashing all over the bathroom
6. there was an exhaust fan. it even worked.
7. there was counter space. sad that there is more counter space on a cruise ship than in an actual house
8. there were towel racks and storage shelves to put things like toothbrushes and lotion and pepto
9. someone else cleaned it every day