| With so many mega liner ships being launched | | | | show. However this cruise ship comes at a price. It |
| nowadays people forget how the cruise holiday | | | | has no heart or soul. You are just a number walking |
| industry has evolved over the last few years. We only | | | | around the ship you are a customer not a guest and |
| need to go back just 20 years when ships such as | | | | this style of cruising is not for everybody. |
| Carnival Fantasy and Sovereign of the Seas entered | | | | So what are your options? You can go for smaller |
| service. | | | | cruise lines and cruise ships and what are the |
| These ships were the first of now what we call mega | | | | advantages? The main advantages are the following: |
| superliner. They were massive in the scheme of things | | | | you are treated like a guest not a number and you |
| and were topping the 70000 tonnes mark. It is funny | | | | receive the personal touch. When you go the bar the |
| how 20 years down the line these ships are now | | | | bar staff will get to know what you drink, they will get |
| known as small. With economies of scale and | | | | to know your name but the main advantage is the |
| polarisation hitting the industry everything has changed. | | | | intimacy in which many life long friends can be made. |
| Bigger is best or is that the case? Only at the end of | | | | Do you make friends on the bigger cruise ships, |
| last year the kings of innovation Royal Caribbean | | | | sometimes but half the time you won't see that same |
| cruises launched the biggest cruise ship into the market | | | | person again. |
| place. The now famous Oasis of the Seas defies logic. | | | | It is funny now that some of the cruise lines are |
| It dwarfs it's little sisters the Freedom class of ships | | | | changing their opinion. P&O cruises have replaced the |
| which previously holds the record of the world's largest | | | | Artemis now with the Adonia. The Adonia is currently |
| ship by a mere 30%. The facilities on-board now a | | | | sailing as the Royal Princess and in essence is tiny at |
| days just blow your mind. | | | | just over 30000 tonnes and holds just 710 passengers. |
| The ship has an outdoor area called central park | | | | Are they listening to what their guests want. |
| where they have 65000 plants and flowers. At the | | | | At the end of the day there is now enough choice out |
| back of the ship is a carousel for the children. It also | | | | there for everyone with an amazing choice of cruise |
| has a zip line going through the heart of the ship and at | | | | holidays for everyone. Whether it 3*, 6* big or small. |
| the back the piece de resistance an Aqua theatre | | | | The only winner to come out of this is the consumer |
| where they can put on Cirque Du Soleil water type | | | | with so much to spend their hard earned cash on. |