Posted on 06/05/2017 7:19:20 AM PDT by C19fan
A new cruise ship is heading our way, built to host more passengers than ever before. MSC Cruises announced plans for its new World Class ships - which will carry a maximum of 6,850 guests and boast 2,760 cabins - at a ceremony in France's Saint-Nazaire last week, with an artist's rendering of the ship showing that she'll be quite a sight to behold. The 200,000–ton vessels, the first of which will be delivered in 2022, will have room for 70 more passengers than the current record-holder, Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas, which has a capacity of 6,780.
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We took a Rhine River Cruise on UniWorld’s S.S. Antoinette in March. Best travel experience of our lives. The Antoinete has a passenger max of 154. I couldn’t imagine being on a cruise with thousands of passengers.
After taking a river cruise to Normandy with 120 passengers, we will never set foot on a jumbo cruise ship again.
Cruise lines are extremely thorough in vetting passengers. However, the crew which can approximately number the passenger capacity, mainly come from third world countries. Some of them muslim like Indonesia. And then there are the cargo handlers in US and foreign ports. Far too many to vet given that most of the jobs are menial. Sure presents a big-boom-boom target for the tangos.
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