[YachtNews]

Originally Posted by brunick

i think you don't have to
lets talk about 1.500 people per ship, that's 6.000 tourists trying to invade the island - that's worse than 60.000 soldier *hehehehe*

i was trying to figure out from where the photographs where taken, is it from your home or is it a higher tower?

Hey Brunick,

It is taken from on a hill, well outside my house. I live in a place called Cave Hill in the Parish of St. Michael. It overlooks the harbour so I can see everything that moves in and out. Wish I had a view of Port.St. Charles like that, sigh, anyways yes, it was taken from outside where I live.

[YachtNews]

The Genesis project underconstruction at Aker Yards for RCI has had her secrets revealed by the builder. The details were kept under wraps for a while now but RCI announced in the last few days these details. The details of the Central Park which is basically a RCI Royal Promanade without the roof complete with real grass, trees and foliage, flowers etc.

There is also a lifting bar to be put onboard. If anyone had any concerns about if Genesis will have the Royal Promanade, I believe she will but it will be located under the floor of the Central Park area.

http://www.royalcaribbean-genesis.com/contact.html

A RCI picture of the Central Park

[Codger]

Have I got this right? You go to sea on a cruise ship so that you can look at a park? Are muggers optional?

[YachtForums]

Originally Posted by Codger

Have I got this right? You go to sea on a cruise ship so that you can look at a park? Are muggers optional?

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[Ken Bracewell]

Originally Posted by Codger

Are muggers optional?

I'm sure it's all inclusive...

[YachtNews]

Originally Posted by Codger

Are muggers optional?

LOL! Codger

[Ju52]

this big shiops look like expensive animal farms to me!
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all the new and big TITANICs ...

PS I will see tis big ships on Lanzarote. The guests will leave the ship at 8 and enter busses to tour around. Boarding is finished at 17 and you can go to the next bar without this foreign army :-)

[Kevin]

Part of me looks at that and thinks "wow! so cool... gotta' admire the feat of mastering the engineering and logistical side of all that...!" while the other half of me cuffs the first half over the head and says "good lord... do you really want to spend your vacation with 5 thousand + people you don't know and probably don't even like?"

[OutMyWindow]

A bit of topic, but worth mentioning, it's also BIG and FLOATS.
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Since the Pacific Northwest is very Ecologically Sensitive, here's a Floating Lodge that is only accessible by seaplane.
http://www.kingpacificlodge.com/

[YachtNews]

Doesn't look any different for the new cruiseships being birthed by yards every 16 months.

[YachtNews]

Independence of the Seas is the newest cruiseship delivered to RCI a few days ago. She is the third ship in the 'Freedom-Class'. Others in the class are the Freedom of the Seas and the Liberty of the Seas.

[NYCAP123]

Per Sunday's paper: RCI will debut "two 220,000 goliaths" in fall 09 and Aug. 2110. By 2012, 122 new ships will have entered service since 2000 bringing the CLIA's total to 203 and Celebrity's new Solstice will sport a half acre of growing grass on her top deck for putting, bocce ball, croquet or a picnic.
Whatever happened to traveling by tramp steamer?

[brunick]

Originally Posted by outmywindow

A bit of topic, but worth mentioning, it's also BIG and FLOATS.
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Since the Pacific Northwest is very Ecologically Sensitive, here's a Floating Lodge that is only accessible by seaplane.
http://www.kingpacificlodge.com/

yeah - one of the first to know when there's the next big flood?

[YachtNews]

On the contrast, Carnival Corporation PLC unveiled its design for its 130,000 tonne Carnival Dream. Alot of commonalities with the Destiny/Conquest class and also other vessels in the industry. However it also boasts a number of new design features.

We can see the new Carinival funnel from the Splendor class, The bridge looks slighly modified RCI-ish, this will be the first carnival ship to have its name plate up on the top aft decks like the new RCI freedom-class and the Princess Diamond-class.
It has a slightly different looking central pool glass wall but shares commonalities with the Costa newbuilds - Fortuna, Magica etc. She also has hull holes as was pointed out..a la QM2.

Note the rounded lower frontal superstructure, that is different. Unlike the 3 sided angular front of the Destiny/Conquest-class.

If you want to get ridiculous, she has two leveled red carnival stripe along the hull. The promanade idea as was said before maybe inspired by Crystal Serenity?

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At the sametime, the keel for Norwegian Cruise Lines (NCL) F3-class ship has been laid yesterday (04/24/08)

[comship]

Here you can do a virtual tour of the Independence of the Seas

http://www.royalcaribbean.com/multim...ipClassCode=FR