Cruise Transparency Reaches Shower

USA Today's cruise writer, Gene Sloan, authored a blog last week which began:

"One of the best views from Celebrity Cruises' next ship, the 3,030-passenger Celebrity Reflection, will be from the shower of its top suite."

Maybe he could also have written "of the shower."

The shower, you see, overlooks everything and has see-through glass. That's right…see-through. It's one-way during the day because the glass is coated with reflective material. At night, a different story. The shower inhabitant can flip a switch to trigger a fogging function to further obscure lookee-loos from the outside.

Right.

Celebrity is assuring all concerned that nobody will be able to see into the shower that protrudes from the Reflection Suite. One thing Celebrity can be certain is, at some point, that will be tested. The world is full of exhibitionists who (accidentally or otherwise) like to show off what they have to show off. Some of them even have lots of money, which is what it will take to stay in the Reflection's signature suite.

And if you think the rich and the famous are bent and bound on personal privacy, consider how many of them take it all off for magazine…er, spreads.

Other amenities in the Reflection Suite are two bedrooms, accommodation for six, a wraparound balcony bigger than most cabins and a 24-hour butler. So if there's a problem with over-exposure from the shower, the inhabitant can always say:

"The butler did it."


Norwegian Sun
10 nights
November 4, 2012
Miami (return): St. Thomas, Dominica, Barbados, St. Lucia, St. Maarten
Inside: $729
Cost per day: $72
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