Onboard Octantis, Viking Cruises is Hiding an Educational Speakeasy
byBrittany Chrusciel/
What would a speakeasy-style bar and lounge look like on a research vessel? Wonder no more. “The Hide” is a space on Viking’s expedition-style cruise ship, Viking Octantis, that’s intentionally under-advertised to guests. The idea is that it’s more of a word-of-mouth space that takes the idea of exploration and applies it to the ship itself.
当您看到墙上的红色外套时,您会知道自己已经到达;原始的纪念品是由维京八角人的教母利夫·阿内森(Liv Arnesen)捐赠的,以装饰空间。阿伦森(Arnesen)是来自挪威的有成就的滑雪者和探险家,她是第一位独自滑雪的女性,不支持南极,也是第一批穿越南极洲滑雪的女性。进入钢制门后,您会看到她的靴子,指南针,铲子,手套,护目镜和其他探险期间使用的物品。
一个名为“北极归属”的系列补充了这些物体,该物体由挪威艺术家Hanne Lydia Opoien Figenschou的一系列逼真的羊毛帽子,袜子和毛衣的逼真的素描组成。
该皮革坐落在船弓内,旨在让人联想起质朴的木制小屋,这些小屋将为您带来的Explorers sumplorers sufferers the Elements提供舒适感。白天,这是一个安静的空间,黑暗,但两侧都有一系列倾斜的落地窗户(而且令人惊讶的是Wi-Fi;这些探险家都无法使用)。但是到了晚上,它成为琥珀色液体和冒险故事的地方。
Snuck into the Viking daily program might be mention of Storytelling at The Hide, which takes place on select evenings at 9 p.m. The true inspiration behind these gatherings is to preserve the Norwegian tradition of oral storytelling, strong within the explorer community, by inviting various members of the ship’s expedition crew to share their wildest stories and discoveries with their fellow cruise passengers.
From Norse mythology to fairytales and folk tales, the practice of telling stories around the fire is an ancient one. In Norway’s culture, oral storytelling has morphed from an exercise in survival —不要吃那些浆果— into an art.
On the night we visited, Emily Cunningham, a marine biologist and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, regaled us with stories about her eight-month residency on Ascension Island, a volcanic island and British territory located 1,000 miles from Africa and 1,400 miles from South America — so, the middle of nowhere. The local government wanted to track its sea turtle population, and so Emily spent day and night counting turtle tracks, measuring the temperature of their nests (the temperature determines the sex), and redirecting disoriented turtles back into the water; no easy feat as they weigh about 550 lbs.
The fireside chats, so to speak, are an informal way of sharing the fascinating professional and personal experiences of the staff onboard, in a more casual setting than the lecture hall. The audience was rapt, and a selection of bourbon and whisky from a cart in the front of the room likely helped lull guests into an engrossed trance. Late-comers were ushered into the limited seating by crew stationed near the door.
皮革中的两页皮革结合菜单只能提供一系列精神,但是精心制作的鸡尾酒并不完全符合空间的简单性。为了真正进入挪威精神,请尝试挪威最喜欢的精神Aquavit。
该皮的魅力的一部分是鼓励自己发现它。But if you’d like to cheat a bit — and we won’t judge you — the easiest way to access the space is by walking all the way forward across either Deck 3 or Deck 5, and then heading down the stairwell to Deck 1.
The near-identical Viking Polaris (meaning “north star” as opposed to Octantis, which is “south star”) is scheduled to set sail on its inaugural cruise on September 29, 2022, from Amsterdam to Ushuaia. Polaris will have its own Hide, containing stories passed between travelers, tucked into the bow of a ship that will chart new adventures for all its passengers.