FLOATING FAT
My wife and I went on our first cruise ever with my in-laws and grandparents earlier this year and enjoyed the on-board experience more than we expected. Prior to that, we'd always thought Cruise-ships were not quite our speed.
But we've come to realize that for traveling with extended family from both sides, it's not a bad experience at all. Not to mention that it can be a better value traveling to places like Europe at current exchange and fuel rates.
So I've come to pay more attention to developments in the cruise-ship world, and this Gizmodo post caught my eye today:
"Royal Caribbean's new boat is big. Really big. The "Project Genesis" cruise liner, currently being constructed, will be 43% larger than the Queen Mary II, currently the world's largest ship. 1,180 feet long and weighing 220,000 tons, it'll be able to carry more people from New Jersey down to the Caribbean than any ship before it.
5,400 people, to be exact. The ship is so large that it has a "Central Park" the size of a football field in the middle, its own gigantic amphitheatre, and seven different "neighborhoods" that people will stay on. This thing is larger than an aircraft carrier, people."
It's expected to launch next year, with a twin due in 2010. Will have to check it out, especially if it has ship-wide wireless Wifi internet access.
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