I’m not a big “sun ‘n beach” person; I’d be at least as happy touring the Highlands as vegetating on a beach in Cozumel.
But I am from North Dakota, so you know I’m a maritime kind of guy. The salt water is in my veins. And so while I’m not a “cruise” kind of guy, necessarily, I do love ships. I think if someone refitted a World War II destroyer as a cruise ship – for a smaller, hardier, less BS-amenable passenger base, natch – I’d dig it.
As opposed to, say, this thing:
The 16-deck Oasis of the Seas docked Friday at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale. It set sail from Finland to Florida in late October.
Sixteen decks. It’s like the Riverside Plaza Apartments, at sea. Ew.
The massive $1.5 billion vessel is nearly 40 percent larger than the industry’s next-biggest ship and five times larger than the Titanic. It has 2,700 cabins and can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 2,100 crew members.
And that, ladies and gents, is just too damn big. It’s like going to sea amid a Vikings game at the Dome.
The ship also features various “neighborhoods”—parks, squares and arenas with special themes. One of them will be a tropical environment that will include palm trees.
I’m wondering if the steerage “neighborhood” includes “crack cabins”?
But I am from North Dakota, so you know I’m a maritime kind of guy. The salt water is in my veins.
…if that’s not dry humor, I don’t know what is, Skipper.
He’s Norske. Salt water is in his DNA.
How “Green” is this monstrosity? How long before we hear about 6,300 stricken with Norwalk Virus? Ugh…that’ll give new meaning to “Green Movement”.
Angryclown’s thoughts exactly.
What Mitch said. Not the dumb stuff you other guys said.
It’s not going to sea in such a large vessel that’s the problem, it’s pulling up to small port and unloading 6000 tourists on an infrastructure that can’t handle it.
As the great Dr. Johnson put it: “No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.”