Posted on 01/27/2024 11:10:36 AM PST by dynachrome
The Royal Caribbean-owned Icon of the Seas will begin its first official cruise later Saturday, sailing away from Miami and toward the Caribbean.
The world’s largest cruise liner’s first official trip, which will go seven nights, comes about two months after builder Turku Meyer transferred ownership over to Royal Caribbean and just a couple weeks after the ship first reached its home port in southern Florida.
The Icon of the Seas owes its title of world’s largest cruise liner to its nearly 1,200-foot length and its nearly 248,700 gross tons. It also has 20 decks, all but two of which are open to guests.
"When you drive up even to the port, you can’t help but just go ‘wow,’" Ingraham told FOX Business about the size of the ship. "And as we were sitting there waiting to take off, there were a couple other cruise ships that would come by – and these are massive cruise ships – but they look small next to the Icon of the Seas."
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Rude.
No true...you are ignorant of this topic
Looks like the Wilhelm Gustloff’s record might be beat.
NO THANK YOU.
The advertising for ‘family’ cruises is surreal— go-kart racing, waterslides, etc. All while aboard a ship sailing the ocean blue, which apparently not interesting enough. . Weird. To me, anyways. But I’m Old School...
What’s the difference between a big hotel on land and a big hotel on water?
You have been here since 1997, rules and all?
You consider yourself a nice person?
I liked the guy who said the sewage is treated better.
“Turku Meyer built the ship with eight “neighborhoods” for guests to explore.”
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Does it have a dystopian Democrat managed ‘hood for guests to explore when they’re feeling brave?
It’s not for everyone at any time during the day.
I’m thinking they need a Tenderloin or Castro district experience. Or East St. Louis.
What’s the difference between a big hotel on land and a big hotel on water?
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Climate change will flood the hotel on land.
The one on water will just rise with it.
Having lived rural my entire life (69), and my wife (66) since she was 21, we have no interest in being in big crowds.
We just got back from visiting our oldest son on Oahu. First time in HI. Without the mountains and the pineapple farms, it is all city and crowded (to us anyway).
Of our 6 days there (stayed at his place) we only ventured into the crowd at the Pearl Harbor Memorial complex. 1 day we spent on a sand bar out in Kaneohe Bay on a pontoon boat (with a second story diving board). Not too crowded. That was a lot of fun for a few hours until a boat parked about 40’ away, and was loudly playing absolute trash music: f this, f-ing that. We left.
But 1 day just the wife and I went out to the far west end of the North Shore and enjoyed the almost empty beaches where the lava rock off shore and just under the suface makes swimming and surfing nearly impossible. You could wade in waist deep and enjoy the water and waves.
Just had to face the ocean to watch for a rogue wave that might knock us down. If we saw one we just walked toward the beach a few steps so it wasn’t as likely to knock us over and drag us out by undertow. During our 3+ hours on that 1/8 mile long beach there was no more than 4 other people there.
Or book a bunch of MS-13s and set up drug and ghetto neighborhoods.
And overboard (after torture) for the ‘strangers’ to their neighborhood.
1.4 million people in Hawaii - 1 million of them on Oahu...
It would appear you have a vested interest in those floating sewage tanks? Your frantic defense is curious.
Not cruise companies. Look it up. The captain has no say in this. They have sewage treatment facilities built into the ship.
East St. Louis would certainly get their adrenaline pumping. I took a wrong exit in Baltimore once which was quite an experience.
Who needs to climb Everest when you can simply visit any Democrat city if you’re after a thrill?
Bet it doesn’t. The boats have very green credentials. Waste recycling is pretty much required for a non military vessel. They only dump grey water in the ocean. Solid human waste is dried out and compacted.
The risk of drowning?
Things may have changed, they sure as heck were dumping 1998-2000 when I started diving off Hawaii island.
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