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The world's largest cruise ship Symphony of the Seas makes its U.S. debut, with the $1.35bn [tr]
UK Daily Mail ^ | November 12, 2018 | Sadie Whitelocks

Posted on 11/12/2018 6:01:46 AM PST by C19fan

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To: laker_dad
With that many people, how long do you have to wait to disembark at a port?

Royal Caribbean just built a new mega terminal in Miami to process passengers. The disembarkation of Symphony of the Seas this week was a hot mess. RCL has no control over that. It’s all on immigration control and local authorities when passengers leave the ship.

21 posted on 11/12/2018 6:57:56 AM PST by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

Thanks for your delightful insight!


22 posted on 11/12/2018 7:02:41 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: TADSLOS

Just the same, I’d stay away from big ocean swells...


23 posted on 11/12/2018 7:02:54 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: CodeToad

You are so wrong.


24 posted on 11/12/2018 7:15:42 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Do your homework.


25 posted on 11/12/2018 7:16:05 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: N. Theknow

I’ve never been on a cruise. I’ve always wanted to try one. My wife is trying to plan one for our wedding anniversary. I hate crowds, though. Your post is informative. I always assumed that cruises are customer service concentric and would be organized to appeal to some space and privacy.


26 posted on 11/12/2018 7:16:41 AM PST by Tenacious 1
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Read this!

https://gcaptain.com/anthem-of-the-seas-and-the-storm-more-seaworthy-than-she-looks/


27 posted on 11/12/2018 7:17:43 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: C19fan

Its just an ocean going human cattle car designed to strip you of your funds layer by layer.
But then some people in life live like that.
Its a symbiotic relationship like a certain fish that lives in the bum of a sea cucumber. They feel safe there, its shelter, they even get passing nutrients.

And more than often when there is a real critical situation the crew could care less about the passengers. I know of several where the captain, or crew, or both left the passengers to fend for themselves.


28 posted on 11/12/2018 7:20:13 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (Thank YOU President Trump, finally we can do what America does best, to be the best)
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To: TADSLOS

Ideal terrorist target. Then what...Cruising takes a big dive.


29 posted on 11/12/2018 7:23:31 AM PST by wetgundog (CNN is FAKE NEWS ...Just added NBC.)
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To: centurion316

Not to mention the 6679 people all trying to get the 200 deck chairs around the pool.


30 posted on 11/12/2018 7:24:42 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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Ideal terrorist target. Then what...Cruising takes a big dive.

Yeah, that’s a possibility. Not probable, but possible.

31 posted on 11/12/2018 7:27:29 AM PST by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: TADSLOS

I wonder what they do with all the human waste material ?


32 posted on 11/12/2018 7:30:35 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: woodbutcher1963
"Not to mention the 6679 people all trying to get the 200 deck chairs around the pool."

24 POOLS!

33 posted on 11/12/2018 7:32:58 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Daniel Ramsey

Why are you on this thread?


34 posted on 11/12/2018 7:34:04 AM PST by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Tenacious 1

There are small cruise ships out there. My wife and I went on a Windjammer Barefoot Cruise for our honeymoon 21 years ago. That company went out of business after the owner died. However, there are other cruise companies that are now doing something similar. Check out Island Windjammer Cruises or something similar. These ships have less than 100 passengers. Theses ships are the closest thing to bare boating you will find without chartering your one boat.


35 posted on 11/12/2018 7:34:26 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Hey to me, most aircraft carriers look top heavy too !


36 posted on 11/12/2018 7:36:42 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: UCANSEE2
I wonder what they do with all the human waste material ?

It’s incinerated.

37 posted on 11/12/2018 7:39:55 AM PST by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: C19fan

It’s too big. I’d rather be on a smaller ship. Impressive, though.


38 posted on 11/12/2018 7:40:15 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: TexasGator

More or less that I’d expect the captain to say...


39 posted on 11/12/2018 7:40:38 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Washee Washee!


40 posted on 11/12/2018 7:41:53 AM PST by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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