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>It is a beast of a ship, 1,141 feet long with room for more than 4,000 passengers "I want to be crammed on a ship with 4,000 other people" said no one ever.
by IanDrake 12y ago
>It is a beast of a ship, 1,141 feet long with room for more than 4,000 passengers
"I want to be crammed on a ship with 4,000 other people" said no one ever.
I wonder how these cruise ships make money between the cost of fuel, food, and expensive mishaps.
- ceejayoz 12y agoWith all the decks, it's likely roughly as much square footage per person as a mall or a resort.
- mcguire 12y agoJudging from my experience on a cruise several years ago, the only major issues are arriving on/leaving the ship in port (and they somehow managed that process so that it wasn't that big of a deal) and scheduling dinner in the evening (there were two or three seatings and, by god, you had to be there on time).
- Fomite 12y agoShipping is massively fuel efficient, and enjoys economies of scale Food is built into the cost of the cruise itself. Mishaps are insured, and relatively rare. Insuring ships is a very old industry.
- IanDrake 12y ago>Shipping is massively fuel efficient That's interesting. >Mishaps are insured The cost I was thinking of was the bad PR. Ships running aground with people dying, mass strandings at sea with people living in squalor unable to flush toilets, and general sickness run wild.
- Fomite 12y agoShips and trains are the most fuel efficient ways to transport things - and things include people. In terms of the bad PR, I confess I'm biased - I'm an epidemiologist, with a fondness for GI infections, so norovirus is near and dear to my heart. But cruises have good marketing, the failures like that are relatively rare on a mass scale, and it's a cheap vacation that feels like luxury to people.