The World’s Biggest Cruise Liner

[MargoTester]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/jan/26/icon-of-the-seas-largest-cruise-ship-human-lasagne-climate-fuel-lng-greenwashing
Would you fancy a trip on it with nearly 10,000 (passengers and crew) I can't think of anything worse

[nicebloke1]

You wouldn't get me out on the sea for all the tea in China. I think they have gone way over the top with these cruis ships. Far to many people.

[Countrylover]

Absolutely not.  My idea of a nightmare.  

[naomi24]

Nooo!  As holidays go being stuck on a cruise ship - any cruise ship - would be my worst nightmare.

[Countrylover]

I've enjoyed cruises on small cruise ships and river cruises.  And I love being on water.  

[Vagus]

I hate hotels at the best of times but the very thought of being on one of these mamouths along with all those people and no means of escaping them....

[douglas9401]

"I can't think of anything worse"

 

Never been to Pontins Lowestoft then. 🤨

[Vagus]

I watched a bit of Susan Calman last night, doing a cruise on a small ship, it looked very nice, as do the river cruise adverts. We did a northern lights one but only because it was a means to an end, and found it acceptable, just.

[webbo3]

Horrible

[MargoTester]

Funnily enough Douglas, I have with my son's football team when he was about 8. Mid winter, everywhere was damp and disgusting, we called them the sheds

[-SharonA-]

My brother has just returned from a cruise and hated it. He was on the 16th floor. Said it was the most expensive holiday he's ever had & was not worth the money.

[melv16]

Prison with a risk of drowning. I couldn't think of anything worse. 

 

[Hopkirk]

Some claim it is against human rights to put people on the Bibby barge.

I would rather that than on the American norovirus special.

 

[pastafreak]

A floating city?? No thanks...worst nightmare. 

Though some river cruises look rather nice. But I'd still hate being locked up with all those strangers. 

[Countrylover]

I really en joyed  our river cruises.  About 90 on board, very casual, lovely food and lots of scenery and no canned entertainment.  Visited lots of places.  All very relaxing.  A Norwegian cruise we did on a small ship was also great.  Travelling down the fjords was wonderful.   I am missing those holidays.  You certainly don't feel stuck on a ship.  Very very different from the large floating cities!  

[pastafreak]

I think I could just about manage that. I think those big cruise ships suit very sociable people. Something I'm not!

[jno]

I've been on one, not quite that size, and it wasn't horrific. The decks were no more crowded than a popular beach, the dining spaces were more spacious than most restaurants and offered much more variety, and the public spaces generally were about as busy as our local high street, which is not very. Plus we got sunshine and visited interesting places, and had someone to make our beds.

I have no need of water slides and suchlike, and do prefer smaller ships that can get into places where the big ones can't. But it's up to individual ports whether to allow 10,000 people to arrive at once and flood the shops with their cash.

[Countrylover]

Pasta, you don't feel locked up at all on river cruises, and you spend a lot of time off the ship doing your own thing.  We had a great cruise on a Russian river cruiser from Moscow to St Petersberg.  We were the only British on board among South Africans, Germans, Austrians, Dutch and Japanese.  It was great.  Mind you, I wouldn't go to Russia now!!   Not the right time.  I wanted our next river cruise to be in Portugal, but it ain't going to happen ;0(

[Canary42]

I agree with Margo on this - nightmare situation IMHO.

[jno]

Countrylover, when you're up and about again, try a péniche cruise - they cover several French waterways

https://www.vjv.com/europe-tours/france/peniche-provencale/

Converted or purpose-built barges with about 25 people on board (three of them crew); they moor at night so you don't miss anything. I think the one I went on covered about 100 miles in a week - it's the one on the link, though they've changed some of the itinerary and pushed the prices up a fair bet.

[MargoTester]

I would like a river cruise on the Danube or to see the Northern Lights. We were on a short break to Split when a liner docked and disgorged its passengers, mostly Japanese, and suddenly we were being shoved to one side so they could take selfies - rude. 😒