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(Cruiseny - no rowing boat stories please! )
quote:Originally posted by Malcolm @ cruisepage:(Cruiseny - no rowing boat stories please! )
Certainly not, Malcom. Just the now-departed 26' cabin cruiser I spent several weeks "cruising" in as when my family owned it a few years ago ...
Happy Cruiseny,Cruiseny
I've got a review on a couple of other sites but here's some extracts.
"We were expecting things to be different. And they were.
The first thing that you notice as you approach the ship for the first time is it's size. I had joked with a friend before we left that we had been on ships whose lifeboats were bigger than this thing, but it wasn't that bad. Not quite! But at 4,250 GRT there can't be many smaller ships. Apart from the Restaurant, or as it's known here, The Dining Salon, there are really only two other public rooms. The Main Salon and The Piano Bar. There's also a small Library and a tiny Casino.
With one hundred and fourteen of us, the ship was full. Maximum capacity is one hundred and sixteen but there were a couple of cabins in use as singles. And with ninety-four crew there was very nearly one to one. The level of service that allows them to provide is outstanding. What it must have been like a couple of weeks earlier when they only had seventeen passengers onboard I can't imagine."
"Tipping is actively discouraged, although I get the impression that it's no longer the keelhauling offence, that it once might have been, for a crew member to accept.
On every other cruiseship I've been on there has been a chart somewhere around the ship showing the route of the cruise and the ship's position. As you might expect, they do things differently here. If you want to know where you are, simply wander up to the bridge and have a chat with the officer-of-the-watch. He'll show you on the chart that he's using. It was great having an early morning mug of coffee, watching our arrival at a new port, from the bridge."
"DiningThis is what it is all about. The finest food that I have had on any cruise, and possibly anywhere else for that matter. Everything was cooked to order and was superb."
"One night at dinner, on being handed the menu, a man at our table realised that he had forgotten his reading glasses. "That's not a problem Sir." And the waiter produced a polished wooden box with a selection of spectacles in it.
One afternoon we saw a couple coming back aboard after lunchtime, to find that the Dining Salon and the Outdoor Cafe had already closed. They went to sit out on deck. A few minutes later a waiter appeared and asked what he could get for them. He took their order and set a table for them where they were, by the pool."
[ 08-16-2002: Message edited by: Great Lakes ]
My size classification for cruise ships:
Under 20,000 GRT: small20,000-70,000 GRT: midsize70,000-100,000 GRT: large100,000+ GRT: megaship
Happy Cruising,Cruiseny
I personally would describe the many of the 90,000 ton ship around at the moment as ‘mega ships’. As ships get bigger, of course ‘small’ gets bigger.
There are not so many ships operating under 20,000 tons these days, that’s why I chose 30,000 tons.
Saying that, it is only a matter of time before 40-50,000 tons looks small!
quote:Originally posted by Malcolm @ cruisepage:[QB There are not so many ships operating under 20,000 tons these days, that’s why I chose 30,000 tons.
There are well over a hundred ships under 20.000 GRT operating today. To me, that´s a lot.
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