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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 05-07-2000 05:00 PM

O.k. we have now got ships with topless decks, theatres, Ice-rinks, climbing walls, water slides, and Organs (Zaandam) - what is the next outrageous feature?

1)May I suggest a roller coaster that encircles the deck of the ship!

2) An onbord boating pond where you can ride in a little electrically powered boat around. Now that would be very bizzare!

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gizmo
First Class Passenger
Member # 972

posted 05-07-2000 08:24 PM

Malcolm,

I would go for the rollar coster, maybe they could find the guy who buildt one on the top of the hotel in Vegas!
Lets not forget McDonald's .

[This message has been edited by gizmo (edited 05-07-2000).]

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 05-08-2000 06:42 AM

The UK has many cross-channel Ferry's to France. Some of them have McDonalds!

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Mercy
First Class Passenger
Member # 322

posted 05-08-2000 08:35 AM

First, the ship would have advertising slogans all over the sides of the ship. McDonald's "Golden Arches", US Bank, ( Anyone who paid enough money,like taxis) There would be a mall in the middle with your standards , like McDonalds, Burger King, and Cinnibon! For entertainment, you would have movies and arcades. Meals would be pay as you go. No one would dress up in the dining room. Strictly jeans and tennis shoes. You would have to clear your own table and put the dishes on a cart. There would be a big mountian on the top deck with artificial snow with a ski run, for a huge fee , of course. Water skiing off the back of the ship. For the Canadians... Hockey and a Curling court! A ferris wheel,
pony rides, bumper cars?

[This message has been edited by Mercy (edited 05-08-2000).]

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K&K
First Class Passenger
Member # 1040

posted 05-08-2000 09:02 AM

Well, somewhere at one of the board meetings of a major cruise line all of the above have or will be discussed!

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cruznut6
First Class Passenger
Member # 543

posted 05-08-2000 10:55 AM

Maybe RCI could offer para sailing from the stern! Wouldn't that be different;-))) or maybe bungee-jumping! Some folks need a challenge all the time.

Bob

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sympatico
First Class Passenger
Member # 797

posted 05-08-2000 01:01 PM

We used to tell new cruisers, that they were going to have water skiing off the stern of the ship and they believed us! How about a bowling alley!

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JDCasey
First Class Passenger
Member # 1065

posted 05-08-2000 03:08 PM

For all the rhinestone cowboys out there, how about a mechanical bull.

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 05-08-2000 06:36 PM

The Titanic had something like a mechanical bull it its gym!

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KruzinKat
First Class Passenger
Member # 260

posted 05-08-2000 07:11 PM

I'm always amazed that, for many of the new ships, a bog marketing angle seems to be that "you'll never know you're on a cruise ship!" If there were ever a reason for me NOT to go on a particular ship, that would certainly be one. If someone doesn't want to know they are on a cruise ship, they should take a land vacation. Let's just hope that cruise lines will continue to order a variety of ships and so always have a good number that celebrate, instead of hide, their connection to the sea.

KruzinKat

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 05-16-2000 04:33 PM

KruzinKat, I'm not sure that the general public wants ships which are like ships? They want a cross between a floating Las Vegas resort, a shopping mall and a five star Hotel!

This explains the creation of the likes of Voyager, Grand Princess and Destiny. The public can now travel to far away places and take a large slice of America with them!

[This message has been edited by Malcolm (edited 05-16-2000).]

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Winner
First Class Passenger
Member # 1188

posted 05-16-2000 06:17 PM

I'm with you KruzinKat! That's why I never sail on a ship carrying more that 750 pax. To my husband and me the smaller ships have a much friendlier ambiance, superior service and "everybody knows your name". No behemoths for us. BTW, we have cruised with Carnival, HAL, Costa, Princess and RCI but years ago when their ships were smaller also.

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 05-18-2000 08:14 PM

All of you have come up with outstanding
suggestions for RCI and all the rowdy kids
they seem to attract.

Let me have the Rotterdam, the Statendam
and her sisters......just as they are...
"sans Les Olsen twins"......and the "tippy"
Caronia too.....

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