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Does anyone know what the final product will look like?
Source: http://boards.cruisecritic.com/showthread.php?t=1982273&page=3
and a better one:
Nothing too exciting as you can see
[ 09-10-2014: Message edited by: joe at travelpage ]
As you are not paying for the ship why do you complain about the design when it has not even entered service yet or been on a cruise ?
To my mind the only company at present building some smart looking new cruise ships is Viking Ocean Cruises who do not go in for amusements parks with a hotel on a pontoon which in many cases carry too many people and completely stretch the facilities at most of their ports of call !
The present the HAL cruise ships, although larger than the new Viking cruise ships, are also very conservative in their classic design with no Zip Wires etc...
[ 09-07-2014: Message edited by: Neil - Ex P. & O. S. N. Company. ]
Have you then seen the actual ship ? .
[ 09-09-2014: Message edited by: jeffrossatsea ]
These are only artists impression pictures as the ship is not built yet ! .
quote:Originally posted by jeffrossatsea:...but by the "artist impression pictures" of this new ship...nothing exciting to look forward to
Agreed
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[ 09-15-2014: Message edited by: Globaliser ]
And it's also nice to see a real Dutch name rather than another ridiculous name like "Eurodam." I was fully expecting HAL to name future ships "Caribdam," "Mexidam," and "Asiadam." And they'd probably have a whole class of ships with Alaskan names like "Glacierdam," "Kenaidam," "Juneaudam," Sitkadam," and "Alaskadam."
Quite some alterations to the exterior of the ship compared to earlier renderings. Improvements in my opinion, but the "bulge" of decks above the bridge is still way too high.
quote:Originally posted by rd77:Quite some alterations to the exterior of the ship compared to earlier renderings. Improvements in my opinion, but the "bulge" of decks above the bridge is still way too high.
It looks better than Epic's... But then again everything looks better than Epic
One funnel vs. two
They changed the superstructure removing the bulge out bits
They lowered the paint line on the hull to create the large white stripe forward
All in all it is still a bit of a cookie cutter design with a top hat. I wish they had gone with another Statendam as the name seems a bit odd and not as easy to roll off the tongue for the average traveler. Will they says Kings-dam or try and pronounce all the letters which will end up being Kan-ings -dam.....
quote:Originally posted by SSTRAVELER:Interesting there are a lot of changes to the design versus the model....
I don't think HAL ever released an official model or rendering until this week. Most people were just guessing based on something they saw in a video or on another site.
The model was not official indeed, but this earlier rendering was actually released by HAL, I think:
One thing that's already been observed from the deck plans is confirmation that although there will be a continuous wrap-around promenade deck, most of this will be - shall we say - "sheltered from the elements" by the lifeboats at the level of this deck rather than suspended above it.
It seems that bookings open on 1 December 2014.
Cruise Weekly has said that her maiden cruise will sail from Rome. Reportedly, she "will operate seven-night itineraries before repositioning to Rotterdam for formal naming ceremonies. The northern summer will see the vessel cruising in the Baltic and Northern Europe region."
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