An article in this weeks Travel Weekly by the cruise editor, Tom Stieghorst, poses the interesting conundrum of the necessity of swimming pools on cruise ships.
A reason for this question to come up was his experience on the new ocean-going ship, the Viking Star. As I have mentioned before the Viking River Cruises position on their 40+ river ships is a no-swimming pool policy. Of course, one of the reasons for this policy is that they do not cater to families, but to the over 55 market. The new ocean-going Viking Star does have 3 pools; main pool midship, an infinity pool aft, and a counter-current pool in the spa area.
