Oceania Marina: Coffee Bar With The World’s Best Sea View?

On February 26, 2010, in Marina, Ocean Cruises, Oceania Cruises, by Ralph Grizzle

Barista Bar on Oceania Cruises New Marina

You’ll need to use your imagination, as Oceania’s Marina is under construction in Genoa, Italy, but the panorama picture you’re looking at is of a soon-to-be-completed coffee bar overlooking the pool deck (click the photo to enlarge the image).

Typically, this space might be reserved for bars serving beverages with more kick than coffee, but as Oceania Cruises’ CEO Frank del Rio pointed out to press touring the ship today in Genoa, “Our guests aren’t big (alcohol) drinkers.”

Certainly, a coffee bar seems to be the perfect complement for this space; something different anyway. You don’t often see coffee bars at sea with views such as this.

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Ralph Grizzle

Editor of Avid Cruiser, Ralph Grizzle began his journalistic career at the age of 32, following the conclusion of his “sabbatical decade.” From 1980 through 1990, Ralph bicycled across America, pedaled through Europe and island-hopped the South Pacific. After backpacking through Bali, bussing through Java, hopping a boat to Singapore and crossing Malaysia to Thailand, he flew into Burma, tramped to Dhaka and endured a 32-hour train ride from calamitous Calcutta to bustling Bombay. From there, he hopped a plane for Greece and traveled to Switzerland before returning home, where he settled, quite naturally, into a career of travel writing. Ralph is the author of four books, including “Remembering Charles Kuralt,” a biography that Publisher’s Weekly called “a sweet and lovely homage, a welcome commemoration.”

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2 Responses to “Oceania Marina: Coffee Bar With The World’s Best Sea View?”

  1. Ralph Grizzle says:
    March 2, 2010 at 3:18 am

    Hi Charles! Nice to hear from you. I doubt I will be on the maiden voyage – perhaps some pre-inaugural events. I was thinking of our wonderful cruise on Regatta last week when I was with Frank del Rio and company. I think you’re going to love Marina. They’ve done a nice thing with the coffee bar overlooking the pool. The restaurants are going to impressive. And there’s a Bon Appetit Culinary School. Maybe we’ll be side-by-side in cooking class one day. Please give my best to Alice. Ralph

  2. Charles says:
    March 2, 2010 at 12:36 am

    Hi Ralph,

    Nice video.
    Will you be on Marina’s maiden voyage? We hope to see you there.

    Charles & Alice , Regatta, Sep 2009

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