Latest Oddball Cruise Activity: Bungee Trampolining

Rock climbing walls. Ice skating rinks. Surfing pools. And now . . . . bungee trampolines.

That's right, flying through the air like you're in a circus show is the latest gee-whiz activity to take off on cruise ships. Royal Caribbean already is experimenting with bungee trampolines on ships, and now Britain-based P&O Cruises says it will install four of the contraptions atop the 3,100-passenger Ventura, which debuts in April.

The trampolines, which allow passengers to soar through the air nearly 200 feet above sea level, are part of what P&O Cruises is billing as the first circus school at sea. Dubbed Cirque Ventura, it will be located on the Ventura's highest deck and run by instructors from the Generating Company, a UK-based circus firm.

In addition to bungee trampolining, passengers who sign up for circus workshops will receive instruction in tight wire, acro balance, clowning, break-dancing, juggling, stilt-walking and the flying trapeze.

P&O says the programs are for passengers eight and older. No word yet on what it will cost.