Cruise ship bars aren't usually the type of bars you would brag about. It's just another typical "water hole" that happens to be on the ship you're cruising on and that's good enough. I mean, how could we possibly complain, at least there is access to alcohol. However, times are a changing.
With style, taste, outrageous expectations, and instant gratification at an all time high, cruise go-ers are demanding more out of their stay while out in the middle of the deep blue sea. And these are the cruise companies that are listening to their customers and doing more with that old space they called a bar.
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