This $1 billion monster is the largest cruise ship ever built

[MongGrel]

Easy answer is, if you do not like cruises just do not go on one I guess.

Don't knock it if you've never tried it 😛

 

[Ackmed]

that's because a cruise is a lazy man's vacation. you literally have to do absolutely 0 planning. you just sit down and everything is done for you, and you (can) have unlimited drinks/food. then when you get to a port you again don't have to do anything if you don't want, and can have the excursions come pick you up and cattle you away, then bring you back when they are done.

Probably very true. You can plan excursions, shows, etc. But yeah, you can eat all you want all day and night long. I think it is more because there are lots of fat people. Going to a water park is an eye opener for me.

We did a celebrity cruise a few months ago, which is considerably more expensive than Royal Carribean/Carnival, but worth it IMO. The fat as fuck ratio drops considerably, to the point I dare say it was a fairly classy collection of passengers. Wife and I had given up on cruises after taking a carnival cruise several years back, but doing a balcony room on a celebrity boat with an unlimited drink package has here wanting to go back.

Perhaps another year. We did Carnival last time, had fun too. Trying another line this year. Would like to do a across the ocean cruise but can't this year, or for a few to come. Wife is pregnant and would make that a bad idea to me. But thanks for the suggestion, perhaps next time. This was a kinda last minute thing, just booked it. Had to find time between school and my daughter doing volleyball starting first of July.

Because it wouldn't get past bag check.

It is easy to do. Put the liquor in plastic inflatable bottles, like a camelbak. They don't show in the scan.

 

[Zorba]

Cruises are one of the cheapest ways to travel in general, no one is getting raped.

Just as a side story, we were on one cruise a few years ago and on about the second day of a week long cruise our cabin boy got in my face a bit when he found a water glass with a cigarette in it that I had smoked up top on the open deck.

Pretty much just left it alone after that, that was the cruise we both had gotten Gold status, on the last night we came in and found free gold status baseball caps, cards, etc on the bed. The guy was falling all over himself apologizing.

😛

I think you are mis-remembering your level with RC. Gold is anyone that has been on one cruise.

 

[Zorba]

Well, I've actually been vaguely thinking of going on one because I like the idea of eating and drinking on the cheap, and not doing much of anything....but I worry that my chaperoned time off in some place that I would actually like to see beyond the contracted tourist shops with collector spoons and Italian Ice carts would just make me angry.

The only encounters I have with cruise ship people is when they have been set out to pasture for the afternoon in the containment zone of whatever town I am visiting at that time. ...that's the part that turns me off of the idea. Drinking and eating on a boat sounds OK.

You can do your own thing where ever you go. I haven't done a ship excursion since my first cruise (7 cruises ago). I've managed to go to Beaches were it is just me and a few locals.

I generally do three major vacations a year, one of which is cruising. It is a great value and I don't have to worry about the more annoying parts of vacationing like where I am going to eat and driving all over the place to see everything. I also love that people can't get a hold of me and I stay away from the internet.

As a comparison, I am cruising in a Suite on RC in October. The cost of this suite is less than cost to go to Disney World in a standard room, and Disney wouldn't include food. And I have to pay for my infant on a cruise, but she is free at Disney. You can't even go to Vegas for less than a cruise.

 

[Rakehellion]

Cost: $22.42 per guest, per day (includes service charge)

Premium coffee
Premium tea
Bottled water
Sparkling water (375ml)
Still water (500ml)
Fresh squeezed orange juice
Non-alcoholic cocktails
Fountain soda with souvenir Coca-Cola cup

Three kinds of water. Now that's luxury.

 

[MongGrel]

I think you are mis-remembering your level with RC. Gold is anyone that has been on one cruise.

Unless they have changed things, it did not used to be.

http://www.royalcaribbean.com/cas/benefitsLoggedout.do

Three I guess, even though I've been on many more than that.

Hadn't even bothered to look in awhile, she is platinum.

Not something I worry about really, I still prefer the large Princess ships myself.

 

[Zorba]

Unless they have changed things, it did not used to be.

http://www.royalcaribbean.com/cas/benefitsLoggedout.do

Three I guess, even though I've been on many more than that.

Hadn't even bothered to look in awhile, she is platinum.

Not something I really worried about really.

They changed it in like 2009. Those numbers are nights at sea (x2 if in a suite), not cruises like it used to be. Not that it really matters, although I am getting $100 discount for being Platinum.

 

[pcgeek11]

is that seismic waves vs wind waves, or do both exist underwater? as in, does the force of the wind transfer to the water underneath as well?

Yes, both.

Waves of all types go well below the surface.

 

[Ichinisan]

can they even carry enough lifeboats for everyone on board?

Why would they? It's unsinkable!

 

[pcgeek11]

Why would they? It's unsinkable!

Now where have I heard that before? Hmmmmm

 

[compuwiz1]

Why not just smuggle in 6 bottles of Captain Morgan's and be done with it? It would save you a ton of cash.

A friend of mine showed me how he brings vodka in water bottles into places where alcohol is not allowed. He's got a plastic bottle cap installer set, where they appear to never have had the seal broken. 🙂

 

[IGBT]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/27/harmony-of-the-seas-is-a-building-site-claim-passengers/



Slum Ship...

The world’s biggest cruise ship is a “construction site”, its first customers have claimed.

The £800 million Harmony of the Seas left Southampton for Rotterdam on a four-night trip on May 22 but customers have protested about ongoing work and closed attractions.

Furious customers have tweeted pictures of overflowing urinals, uncovered drains and muddy carpets.

 

[Darwin333]

A friend of mine showed me how he brings vodka in water bottles into places where alcohol is not allowed. He's got a plastic bottle cap installer set, where they appear to never have had the seal broken. 🙂

No need for special tools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abosduPhns4

 

[MongGrel]

They changed it in like 2009. Those numbers are nights at sea (x2 if in a suite), not cruises like it used to be. Not that it really matters, although I am getting $100 discount for being Platinum.

Many of our cruises didn't even apply to membership at one time, freebies won through contests of Fam cruises didn't apply to it.

The wife used to win a lot of cruises.

It's pretty much irrelevant.

 

[MongGrel]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/27/harmony-of-the-seas-is-a-building-site-claim-passengers/



Slum Ship...

The world’s biggest cruise ship is a “construction site”, its first customers have claimed.

The £800 million Harmony of the Seas left Southampton for Rotterdam on a four-night trip on May 22 but customers have protested about ongoing work and closed attractions.

Furious customers have tweeted pictures of overflowing urinals, uncovered drains and muddy carpets.

That would be surprising to me, RC is usually a lot better than that.

But I don't know these days, growing pains maybe.

 

[Zorba]

Yeah, they've gotten really bad recently about scheduling cruise right after delivery with no shake out time. And they've gotten really bad with traveled work before and after dry docks. But they've figured out peopke will pay big money to be on the first cruise after delivery or drydock and it's all about shareholder value.

 

[buckshot24]

No need for special tools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abosduPhns4

Thanks, now I'm getting more "how to sneak alcohol into" type suggestions in YT.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Thanks, now I'm getting more "how to sneak alcohol into" type suggestions in YT.

I'm old enough to remember when you didn't have to sneak. You could go to a baseball, or football game with an ice chest filled with beer, a large igloo filled with frozen daiquiri's, and a bucket of chicken, or whatever.

 

[NAC4EV]

I wonder if you worn this, would anyone question the yellow liquid contents in the bag???

 

[MongGrel]

I'm sure those ships are hauling ass out of Oklahoma on a daily basis 😛

Fams are free and invitational and are before the first "official" cruise anyway, if that was what you meant.

I'll leave it at that.