Before the valves are opened, the group tours Norwegian Epic's dry dock. That massive rectangular window with inlaid squares that looks a bit like the Wheel of Fortune board (simile courtesy of Melissa Baldwin Paloti, Cruise Critic's Managing Editor)? That's the window wall in the Manhattan Room, one of Epic's two main dining rooms. Epic fact: At 130 feet wide (actually varies a bit due to the curved superstructure) and 1,068 feet long, it's 2.2 laps around the ship to a mile.