We take a look at the world's largest cruise ships, the benefits and challenges of operating away from the shoreline. These large ships have challenges - trying to dock a massive vessel in an unfamiliar harbor, which requires outside help to board. Modern cruise ships are cities afloat, and they can offer passengers a range of activities! Such as a reserved area for yacht club guests, restaurants, entertainment centers, bars and lounges, pools and slides, a water park and more!
I’ve sailed on 20+ cruises from Singapore, China and the US. 4K-5K total persons on board is my limit. These massive ships with 8K-9K souls onboard are impressive to me (as an engineer) but it’s WAY too many people. Embarkation & disembarkation take much longer. And the ports of call get overwhelmed with so many people flooding the areas around the cruise piers. No thank you!
I like how the engines of the MSC line of ships are named 'warstila', made to sound almost like Godzilla -which suggests a sense of enormity or grandeur. By the way, I was expecting to hear the narrator explain how these ships compare to the 'Titanic', just so one can get a sense of how much bigger today's ships have become. I live in Cape Town and wanted to get a sense of how much it costs to board one of these ships and the MSC World starts at 7,500 Euros and would take 2 weeks to sail from Cape Town to Rio, so no;I'll rather take a plane, thank you very much. Regards from Cape Town.
Incredible, incredible, INCREDIBLE! That last one, The Wonder Of The Seas, how many people can it hold? Most of the others would say how many passengers they can hold, but being The Wonder Of The Seas is the world's largest, the max accomodations has got to be near 10,000, or even 20,000. I could only ever dream about these things, as I'll just never be able to experience luxury like that, unless I win the lottery of course! Great video!
