00:00Hey there all, I am Dan Klein, executive editor of Come Cruise With Me. That is comecruisewith.com, soon to be part of Travel Host. We're really excited about that.
00:09I'm on a 14-day adventure on the Viking Jupiter. Now first of all, I'm going to talk a little bit about the fact that today the sun, and I'm pointing to my balcony, will not go down.
00:19We are going to have 24 hours of sunlight. Makes it hard to know when to switch from drinking light beverages to darker beverages.
00:26I usually have a gin and tonic in the afternoon if it's a Sunday like it is, not a work day, and switch to bourbon at night.
00:33But there is no night. It is perpetual sun.
00:35But one of the ways I'm dealing with that is something that's my favorite thing on the ship.
00:39There is a thermal spa here that is in the men's room. There's a sauna.
00:43So you can sit in the sauna. You can then go into the plunge pool.
00:46I have not been daring enough to go into the plunge pool.
00:49In the communal area, there is a thalasso therapy tub.
00:53Got that one out. With bubbles, and you sit in the thing, and it's warm but not hot.
00:57There's a hot tub next to that. There's also a steam room, and there is a snow room.
01:01You can go and can't quite make a snowman, but play with snowballs, get yourself good and cold, go back into the steam room.
01:08There's also classes you can do. They cost a little extra that will show you sort of the Norwegian ritual of doing this.
01:13I haven't done that yet, but it is a beautifully appointed spa, and it is all included.
01:17On many cruise lines, I've done these sort of thermal suites, and they're not as nice as this, and they're not included.
01:24So this is a really big perk if you're on Viking, and it's something I'm going to be doing probably every day
01:29to try to keep my sanity as I do not sleep much, given that the sun, as I said, is not going down.
