Worlds' biggest Cruise Liner leaves port

mcast123 · 31 Oct 2009 at 06:05

I'd rather cover my testicles in honey and stick them in a bees nest. Who goes on these things, fat yank tourists that can't walk?

Le_Petit_Lapin · 31 Oct 2009 at 06:10

mcast123 said:
I'd rather cover my testicles in honey and stick them in a bees nest.

To be fair, I think I'd rather a cruise on an ugly ship over jamming my sack in a bees nest.

Tefal · 31 Oct 2009 at 06:19

simulatorman said:
Or an even larger terrorist target.

I would be fantastically impressed if terrorists could sink a large cruise liner, especially in the generally safe water they normally sail. (ie not off the cost of somalia

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leoncc · 31 Oct 2009 at 06:33

drunkenmaster said:
I see the appeal of going on a two week boating trip on a large ish sail boat, doing some real sailing and some steering and manning the sails and stuff would be cool and going around some lesser seen islands in the world with a small group of people, stopping off on tropical beaches and the like.

This is the best!

My parents friends rented their house out and bought a boat to sail around the world in, they've been pretty much everywhere I would want to go!

I've been away with them between Greece and Cyprus which was amazing, so much better than any holiday I've ever been on, just being in the ocean, sailing properly, being able to go anywhere you want, theres so many little places people just don't see, all the back street restaurants, anchoring up anywhere and spending the night star gazing (out of this world, no light polution etc) so many little caves we found.

We went to an volcanic island in Greece as well, just rented out some motorbikes and took us the best part of a day to ride up and back down into the volcano, was immense even if it did smell horrendous!

They've been pretty much everywhere, and are going to the Galapagos islands next, I'm going again with them and can't wait.

I go sailing with my old man a lot and hope one day I will be able to do this (when I retire etc) a fair while yet lol.

(Charter holidays would be a good start as well, if you're not into the whole cruise thing)

Tefal · 31 Oct 2009 at 06:43

bitslice said:
Call me alarmist but it doesn't appear to have sufficient life boats, suggest it avoids large masses of floating ice

I calculate that each of those life boats needs to carry 300 people...

that or they have large numbers of life rafts

either hidden inside the life boats or in areas designed to get them over board quickly.

This of course is combined with those new fangled invention the helicopter and satellite communications which mean rescue will be both quicker and more effective than ye olde Titanic times.

xb8browney · 31 Oct 2009 at 07:25

Looks like a block of flats turned on there side.

Cosimo · 31 Oct 2009 at 07:41

Le_Petit_Lapin said:
To be fair, I think I'd rather a cruise on an ugly ship over jamming my sack in a bees nest.

I’d rather be in a villa than in a floating town.

Skii · 31 Oct 2009 at 08:44

Tefal said:
that or they have large numbers of life rafts

either hidden inside the life boats or in areas designed to get them over board quickly.

This of course is combined with those new fangled invention the helicopter and satellite communications which mean rescue will be both quicker and more effective than ye olde Titanic times.

pffft lifeboats are sooo last year.

More than likely it uses the MES system which I'd imagine is quite a ride...

Combat squirrel · 31 Oct 2009 at 10:10

I dont get why people are missing the point of a cruise and saying its a rubbish idea/way to travel, its WAY better than seeing the world via a plane!

I have plans to go on a round the world cruise to see many countries where the cruise ship stays in port for a couple of days, sounds amazing, imagine it..... you get your own room where you can just unpack everything, have stuff everywhere and easy to get it when you need it (dont need to constantly carry stuff), go to bed one night and wake up in egypt, explore there for a couple of days.......cruise to your next destination (while having a fantastic time on board), then wake up in another amazing place, explore there for a couple of days....

Truly beats the hell out of jumping on a plan (when I say jump I mean go to airport.....sit in air port for 3 hours while checking in), fly place, spend day or two there.....go sit in another airport for many hours (while moving between places carrying everything you have in a bag)

Or the 1st option where you have a mobile bedroom on hand that moves with you at a leisurely and relaxed pace ? And when you have finished exploring the worlds amazing places you can just head back to your room, kick back...relax....maybe go for a swim then onto a nice resturant.......yes ill be having some of that life style please!!

semi-pro waster · 31 Oct 2009 at 10:22

Combat squirrel said:
I dont get why people are missing the point of a cruise and saying its a rubbish idea/way to travel, its WAY better than seeing the world via a plane! ...snipped for space

It depends what you want to do. I don't find the idea of being stuck on a luxurious boat such as that for weeks or months at a time particularly appealing at the moment, maybe in several years time I will but right now I'd much prefer to make my own way about the world than be ferried from place to place.

If I was involved in the actual sailing of the boat then I might feel differently, although I'm not tremendously interested in sailing I can at least see the point but few things bore me more than holidays where I'm just sitting about the whole time, I crave active holidays (to a point, I don't mind sitting reading a book or going for a nice meal at times) and always have.

Burnsy2023 · 31 Oct 2009 at 10:44

Lopéz said:
I am no fan of cruising but ocean liners and cruise ships are absolutely nothing like ro-ro ferries. I'd be amazed if you got proper sea sickness on a large cruise ship as they are phenomenally stable.

Indeed. Modern cruise ships have gyroscopes to prevent any rolling, even in high seas.

SDK^ · 31 Oct 2009 at 10:54

I'm heading out to Miami in a week, i'll keep a look out for it

Smudge · 31 Oct 2009 at 22:18

I worked on this for a week before it set sail. It's an amazing ship & the pics don't do it justice tbh.

No1newts · 31 Oct 2009 at 22:29

Looks like a tower block on top of a boat :rolleyes:

Gackt · 31 Oct 2009 at 23:15

Boring. When they put one of these in space, then it'll be interesting.

Faceman · 1 Nov 2009 at 10:53

Hunders said:
That's one fugly ship.

+1
Never seen a cruise liner that looked so ugly

Nitefly · 1 Nov 2009 at 11:00

I can't think of many worse holiday ideas than going on a cruise. I totally don't get the appeal.

Inquisitor · 1 Nov 2009 at 11:02

Nitefly said:
I can't think of many worse holiday ideas than going on a cruise. I totally don't get the appeal.

Same here. Who wants to be stuck at sea for weeks on end in something not too dissimilar to an enormous shopping centre?

Cosimo · 1 Nov 2009 at 12:40

Some techie stuff:

shifty_uk · 1 Nov 2009 at 12:44

When I saw the exterior, I was like

When I saw the interior, I was like