So the biggest and baddest of cruise ships is now afloat, and I've been reading up on it.
It's quite impressive - as witnessed by these interesting if useless facts:
- Over 110,000 pounds of ice cubes are produced every day
- The propellers are 20 feet in diameter
- There are 16 passenger decks, plus several large holds filled with filth and squalor for the slaves (I'm sorry - crew) to sleep in.
The ship is broken into 8 different neighbourhoods, including Central Park (includes muggers!), Streetscape (includes a No Stabbing zone for the children), and assorted other entertainment areas, such as pools, climbing walls, theaters, alligator pits, punji stick booby traps, and a bingo hall. I may have made some of those up.
In all - it is quite exciting and I can't wait to go for a drool on it when I'm older.
Getting back to the neighbourhood theme - I think to make it feel like a real neighbourhood, what they should do is string up clothes lines between the cabins in this photo so guests can do their laundry.
That would really make it feel like a borough in New York or some other decrepit slum.
I suspect you'd make more friends and meet more interesting people by hanging out your undies each day than you ever would dining with the snobs in first class. Just sayin...
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