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Virtually all the modern cruise ships were built by the Finns or the Italians.

I can't think of worse timing for this delivery. My family and I have taken cruises in the past and are bombarded with brocures from all the major lines. Everyone seems desperate to fill their ships. A two week cruise to Hawaii with we were looking at 2 years ago and which would have cost about $10K for the three of us can now be had for about $6K. I can't imagine how Royal Caribbean is going to fill this monster AND all the other mega-liners that they have in service.

“I can't think of worse timing for this delivery. My family and I have taken cruises in the past and are bombarded with brocures from all the major lines.”

- As it is a bit difficult to travel completely incognito these days, a good idea could be to use the poste restante service of your local post office. In that way they'll get to deal with all of the junk mail and at least over here in Europe they do so for free.

“Everyone seems desperate to fill their ships.”

- Yes they are.

We Scandinavians can often get hold of very cheap tickets to different cruises as the left over tickets often are dumped on smaller, non-dollar and non-Euro markets (Norway and Iceland are not members of the EU while Denmark and Sweden are EU members but don't have the Euro). The reason these tickets are not sold to a reduced price in Britain, Germany, America etc is that people who've paid the full price are likely to get annoyed finding out someone else has payed much less than they have.

Perhaps, it's not that very irritating for an American to find out that Anders Eriksson from Stockholm has paid 800 Swedish crowns..