Whenever a cruise line adds new stuff to old ships, it's a big deal. This time, it will happen during a dry dock maintenance period this coming May. Norwegian Cruise Line will add a total of 58 new cabins to the 2,224-passenger Norwegian Dawn including 28 new suites.

The suites include four 667-square-foot to 732-square-foot owner's suites and 24 family suites, ranging from 408 square feet to 495 square feet, most of which can sleep six passengers.

Norwegian did a similar addition project adding new cabins on sister-ship Norwegian Star not long ago which worked out well.

"The flow of the ship has improved on the Star with these changes and we think it's more in line with the way we build ships today," said Crane Gladding, NCL's senior vice president of revenue management and passenger services. "We are putting more public spaces together for guest flow to be more smooth around the ship."

The work will be done at the Grand Bahama Shipyard in Freeport, Bahamas, from May 1 to 27.

More changes are on the way for the ship also, but the cruise line is keeping those a secret to be revealed later.

Flickr photo by Ken from NY

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