One thing that hasn't changed is that cruise ships still don't have enough lifeboat capacity for everyone on board, funnily enough they don't advertise that fact.
For scale, Titanic was 269 metres long, 28 metres wide with a capacity of 3320 people. The Pride of Hull North Sea Ferry is 215m long 32 m wide and has a passenger capacity of 1360 people.
Ah, but the Titanic only had one car onboard. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
Well here's its predecessor near one in the South Atlantic. It'll have to do as I think I've disrupted this thread enough now. please log in to view this image
MSC Virtuosa is one of the biggest ships (I’ve read third biggest and 15th, so must depend how you measure it). It is 330 m in length Still able to turn on a sixpence due to side thrusters. It had 6,000 passengers and 1800 crew……. Oh and 30 seats.
They have to have enough lifeboats for all the passengers, the crew use life rafts instead, but there's enough capacity between them to remove everyone onboard.
The theory is good and if the ship moors in a port on each stop, it's probably fine. But having seen a few of those Massive Cruise Ships programmes, it looks like many ports the ships have to moor in a harbour and ferry the passengers on and off over ever several hours in small boats (usually to go on pre-arranged excursions), which looks like my idea of hell.
L'enfer, c'est les autres as Sartre famously said, so I'm with you on this. See also National Coach Tours and Haven Holiday Parks. Try to relax in a place where your holiday is anything but...
That's a real shame that things didn't pan out as expected.I'd always fancied the idea of a cruise but my Mrs was dead against it,I guess she appears to be right...That in itself is a minor miracle
… and to cap it all, just tested positive for Covid! Only came back Friday and been nowhere since so almost certainly got it while cruising. I looked on the fb group for the cruise and it seems hundreds have it. Not surprising. And because they are short staffed, I’m sure many of the crew will carry on working.
