Cruising Chapter 3 The Anatomy of a Cruise

Cruising Chapter 3 The Anatomy of a Cruise Ship 1 1

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Objectives • After reading this chapter you will be able to: • Classify ships according to their style. • Compare older ship styles to newer ones. • Explain how ship size and space are measured. • List the facilities found on most cruise vessels. • Interpret a deck plan. 3

Styles of Ships The Classic Ocean liner Primarily used for transatlantic crossings or world voyages, and mostly built before 1970, they’re sleek, streamlined, and built to knife their way through open ocean waves. 4

The contemporary cruise ship. The industry generally calls these giant-sized ships megaships. They accommodate 2, 000 passengers or more and have 12 or more decks (the equivalent of a story in a building). 5

• Small Ships Accommodate fewer than 200 passengers. These ships often stress education, soft adventure, and/or luxury experiences. They often look like cruise Ships in miniature or oversized yachts. 6

Masted Sailing Ships Powered by the wind. They have motors incase the wind dies down. People who sail on such ships want an experience rooted in other times, when billowing cloth and the romance of the sea were what sailing was all about. 7

Riverboats Great steamboats of the nineteenth century. Modern-style riverboats, too, are popular vehicles for experiencing such legendary rivers s the Rhine, the Danube, and the Nile. • Barges Passenger barges are luxurious, affording a pampered and leisurely discovery of the countryside. 8

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• Multipurpose Ships • Ferries Provide an overnight or even multiday, cruise like experience, with private staterooms, glitzy entertainment, and bountiful dining. They carry cargo, transport passengers between close-by villages and yesserve as cruise ships for leisure travelers too. 11

Sizing Ships 12

1. By the number of staterooms. 2. How many passengers the ship accommodate. 3. Measure the gross registered tonnage or GRT is determined by a formula that gauges the volume of the public space on a ship. 13

Private: Crew Ship Facilities Public: Pool Deck Public: Stateroom 14

Space is divided into 3 types. a. Stateroom space b. Private (crew) space c. Public space 15

• Passengers almost never see the spaces that serves the ship’s crew. (They are usually on decks below those of the passengers). • These include crew cabins, dining areas, and recreation facilities. • The Bridge (where the vessel is controlled). The galley or kitchen (where food is prepared), & mechanical areas (engine room). 16

Public Spaces (where passengers mingle) 17

The Reception Area: • Purser’s office (front desk, hotel desk, reception desk or information desk). • This is equivalent of a hotel’s front desk. • Nearby is the shore excursion office where passengers can inquire about and/or book port tours and activities. 18

Lido Deck (buffet like dining) inside or outside. • Examples: The Dining Room • Guest eat here (breakfast, lunch, dinner). • Larger ships feature several main dining rooms. a. b. c. Pizzerias Fast Food Ice Cream Bar 19

The Showroom • Entertainment events usually take place here each night. The Pool Area • Deck w/ many lounge chairs & tables. 20

The Health Club • Exercise with an aerobic areas, stationary bicycles, treadmills, and weight machines. The Children’s Area • Their features and activities often are tailored to multiple age groups (e. g. young children, older children , and teens. 21

Gift Shop • Purchase souvenirs, duty-free goods, teeshirts, and the like. Medical Facility • Maritime law requires any vessel that carries more than 100 passengers to have a physical onboard and often one or more nurses. Small hospital like facility. 22

Photo Gallery • At key moments and picturesque spots, professional photographers take phots of passengers. 23

The Movie Theater • Many ships feature screenings of recent movies in a theater. These rooms also serve as meeting spaces. 24

The Internet Café • Time-based fee, passengers can send and receive e-mail. 25

Casino • Since gambling is usually legal on ships, most cruise vessels boast casinos where clients can play blackjack, roulette, slot machines and other games. 26

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• A stateroom—also called a cabin—is to a ship what a guest room is to a hotel. • The average American hotel room is 350 to 450 sq. feet. • Cruise ships staterooms are 100 sq. ft. to 250 sq. ft. 28

Outside Stateroom • These have windows. • They’re ideal for clients who worry about feeling cramped. • Some staterooms feature a full -wall sliding glass door that leads to a verandah, which enables to go outside and experience the environment in a direct and private way. 29

Inside Stateroom No windows, but often use mirrors, pastel colors, bright lighting, and even false window drapes to make the room feel more open. Many cruisers prefer inside staterooms because these rooms usually are the least expensive on the sip. 30

Suites Stateroom • Certain vessels it on the concierge level. This person helps arrange certain services for them. Or they may even have a butler. • Most expensive. Feature a sitting area and a sleeping area, often divided by a curtain and featuring just under 300 sq. ft. of living area. 31

The stateroom normally have: • • 2 single lower beds. Upper beds can accommodate 3 or 4 ppl. Bedstand Vanity Closet Television Extensive lighting 32

Reading a Deck Plan 33

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• A ship plan usually consist of two elements: The deck plan (floorplan) and a cross section of the ship, with each “layer” shown (only those decks that are “public” are indicated. Sometimes accompanying the deck plan are floor plans of various kinds of staterooms. 35

• Deck plan are important. Guest can often select the exact staterooms they want when they cruise is booked. • In a brochures, color coding makes a deck plan easy to read. Colors help indicate which price categories apply to which staterooms. • A stateroom category is the price s that a certain kind of level of stateroom represents. 36

• Usually the higher the deck the higher the price. • Deck plans often note certain special stateroom circumstances. • Deck plans are also posted aboard ship. Usually located in the elevator/staircase areas. 37

Bow – front of ship. Stern – back of ship. Port- left side facing forward Starboardright side 38

Each deck has a name and/or number. 39

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