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The €1billion floating town is finally delivered: World's biggest cruise ship with 18 decks [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 13, 2016 | Becky Pemberton

Posted on 05/13/2016 7:19:43 AM PDT by C19fan

The world's biggest-ever cruise ship, the 227,000-tonne Harmony of the Seas, a luxury home on the waves for 8,500 passengers and crew, was handed over by a French shipyard on Thursday after a 40-month engineering feat. At 218ft, it is the widest cruise ship ever built, while its 1,187ft length makes it 164ft longer than the height of the Eiffel Tower. The immense floating town, which cost close to one billion euros (£800 million), has 18 decks and will be able to carry 6,360 passengers and 2,100 crew members.

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KEYWORDS: cruise; cruiseship; cruising; ships
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To: lurk
No thanks. Give me a cabin in the Rockies and a cooler full of food.

The population density is so high that cruise ships are essentially floating socialist utopias. Big city people are at home but conservatives are country people at heart. Often the only news source permitted by the central planning committee is the Communist News Network.

81 posted on 05/13/2016 12:42:20 PM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Rockpile
Finally, a cruise ship that offers polo!

Steerage pneumatically seals its bulkheads from the rest of the ship in the case of flooding.


82 posted on 05/13/2016 12:55:00 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Joe Boucher

Bruce McCall tells of the voyage:

R.M.S. ‘Tyrannic’ - ‘The Biggest Thing In All The World’

We can here but peep at Tyrannic’s labyrinth of Public Rooms. They are 103, not including the Kandahar Verandah Grill. First Class passengers are reminded that all meals, excluding teas, must be ordered three months in advance of sailing. The Maitre d’Hotel will signal conclusion of dinner. Persons without references cannot be considered for the Captain’s Table guest list.

An area equivalent to Hindustan is devoted to food and its preparation aboard Tyrannic. Forty tons of Stilton cheese are consumed on every crossing, as are 214 miles of sausage and melons sufficient to fill the Grand Canyon of Arizona. All excess livestock is thrown overboard on sight of landfall. Steerage is reminded that eating toffee in bed is forbidden.

Gentlemen are requested to refrain from riding ponies through the Steerage after 8:00 P.M. While the Captain emphasizes the rules of proper attire at all times, gentlemen may remove their spats in the Gymnasium. Golfers from the First Class have right-of-way through the Steerage. The Chariot Race in the Grand Ballroom is held on the eve of disembarkation. Off limits to Steerage.

Lifeboat drill is conducted on the first day out at 3:00 P.M. for First Class, and on the last day out at 3:00 A.M. for Second Class and Steerage. One circuit of the Promenade Deck is equivalent to walking from Aix to Paris and return. More ammunition is expended during the skeet shooting on a single voyage than was used in the Crimean War entire. There is a deck of cards in the Steerage Tuck Shop.

The Tyrannic is so safe that she carries no insurance. Among many advances in her design and construction is the pneumatic bulkhead that seals off Steerage from the rest of the ship in case of flooding. Her wireless equipment is powerful enough to reach Brisbane, Australia, from the vicinity of Greenland.

Total length of Tyrannic’s hot water piping in First Class alone is estimated to exceed the distance in nautical miles from Lisbon to Durban.

A Routine voyage uses up six thousand mops, four hundred acres of table linens, and a fifty-gallon drum of Mercurochrome. Kept in the stores are ten miles of shoelaces, one half-ton of flea powder, two hundred caskets, a like number of hummingbirds, and a spare funnel.

The ship’s newspaper, issued daily, enjoys a larger circulation than the Times of Bombay. More musicians are employed aboard Tyrannic than in the entire city of Vienna. The chandelier in the Grand Ballroom weighs more than the Eiffel Tower, and gives off more light than that structure’s host city of Paris.

Steerage passengers who board at Liverpool often fail to reach their quarters before Tyrannic has safely berthed at New York. They are advised to run.


83 posted on 05/13/2016 12:58:38 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Robert DeLong
It was a comparison in length not in floatability.

Comparing the length of one object with the height of another object from an entirely different domain is simply an inapt analogy.

The "how well does it float" remark was just pure, unadulterated and gratuitous Internet snark.

This is FR, after all...

84 posted on 05/13/2016 1:09:15 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: C19fan

So many activities...seems like a lot of work.


85 posted on 05/13/2016 1:12:23 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: jsanders2001

jsanders2001 wrote: “That must be a special...you don’t work for them do you?”

That price was shown on their website. All the cruise lines, Royal included, are continuously running specials which usually don’t actually reduce prices. It was an advertised price for an inside cabin for four people. That would be cramped but still the price is well within middle class reach.

I don’t work for Royal but I have cruised on two of their ships. One was Oasis, a sister ship, almost identical to Harmony. I actually prefer smaller ships and other cruise lines.


86 posted on 05/13/2016 1:20:46 PM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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To: null and void

nooo,
I am not Hillary and I would go to jail.


87 posted on 05/13/2016 1:21:03 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (500 years ago we had Shakesphere, obammys people live in mud huts still. Go figure)
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To: yuleeyahoo

Two word come to mind: Rogue Wave


88 posted on 05/13/2016 1:23:45 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: Cecily

They plan on just throwing them some sandwiches.


89 posted on 05/13/2016 1:25:27 PM PDT by shotgun
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To: jsanders2001
That must be a special...you don’t work for them do you?

Nope, $600 per person is easy to find. I usually get a 7-day Caribbean cruise in a balcony suite for $750-900 per son. Carnival is always the cheapest, often just under $400 per person for a 7-day itinerary, because they cram an extra 1000 people on the same size ship as the others, and charge less, so every family of five jumps on it... making the extra 1000 people just about all kids. Nooooo thank you! LOL

I like Princess, Norwegian, and Holland America especially... HAL is sort of the "old fart" line, which is fine for me... fewer people in line for the things that I want to do (jet skis, horseback riding, snorkeling with rays, rent a motorcycle and tool around the interior of some of the islands, etc... and the food is always amazing.

My usual search method starts at vacationstogo dot com, it has an easy sorting matrix. Then go to the webpages of the top few cruises that you've chosen, and see if you can beat the price there. I also often wait for the last 2 weeks before my departure date, and prices slip quickly. (The down side is that there is no chance to get upgraded to a better room, like you can if you book early and stay in contact with the cruise line.)

I'm sorry that so many on here seem to not enjoy cruises. I love them, and plan one every year... but life always gets in the way, so I actually SAIL about every other year or so (5 since 2006).

90 posted on 05/13/2016 1:30:49 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Zeppo

Most Europeans are familiar with the Eiffel Tower and it gives them a perspective on which to gauge. But okay, I get it, you were being snarky.


91 posted on 05/13/2016 4:02:17 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: Robert DeLong
i take it all that crap inside is because it doesn't make many port calls...
92 posted on 05/13/2016 4:21:08 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Just about big enough to have a quarter mile two lane marked off.

93 posted on 05/14/2016 4:44:26 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: C19fan

I thought Nathan Detroit ran the “oldest established permanent floating crap game”?


94 posted on 05/14/2016 4:56:43 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Zeppo

“Just how well does the Eiffel Tower float, anyway? “

Very well in a sea of Mercury.


95 posted on 05/14/2016 8:08:20 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: elcid1970

from 2014:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/holiday-ideas/clive-palmers-titanic-ii-project-behind-schedule-may-have-stalled/story-fnjjv4qv-1226868214176?nk=a31dad3c1645f73681913b8f7c538446-1463271366


96 posted on 05/14/2016 5:16:30 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: elcid1970
Clive Palmer, who is funding the project, said the tests' results would come back later this year. Among his other projects is an effort to clone a dinosaur to attract guests to a holiday resort near Brisbane.

Not going to happen

97 posted on 05/14/2016 5:57:42 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (Fair Dinkum!)
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To: Rockpile
Gross tonnage is 100 cubic feet/ton. There are five or six kinds of tonnage and the word dates back to Northern Europe usage of tun which were big barrels I think.

Thank you. I did not know that (and I should have known).

98 posted on 05/15/2016 6:22:38 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: C19fan

A lot nicer than the frigate I was on.


99 posted on 05/15/2016 6:25:29 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: C19fan

200,000 + tons of ship wrapped around a gambling casino.


100 posted on 05/15/2016 6:27:52 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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