PHOTOS -Behind the scenes!

Ever wondered what it looks like behind all the glitz and glamor?

What lies beyond those doors saying Crew Only ?

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I was fortunate to be included among a group of local hoteliers

doing a behind-the-scenes tour of a Royal Caribbean ship.

We were there to see and learn how the systems work!

It's quite incredible, and quite self-contained.

I learned stuff I never thought I'd be interested in.

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Here are a few not-so-pretty pics of what it looks like Back There

This is your average crew-transiting companionway...to and fro the Galley for example.

We did hundreds of yards of this stuff during the 4 hrs. we went 'where no man has gone before!' :D

Miles and miles of lobster tail, in various stages of preparation

This was taken inside one of 17 freeezing cold storage rooms on board!

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Just learning the "ropes".

Pete

Just learning the "ropes".

Pete

So that's what it looks like, right up forward

where mooring lines are paid out and tensioned..

Got any more like that?

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Very cool!

Interesting!

 

So that's what it looks like, right up forward

where mooring lines are paid out and tensioned..

 

 

 

Got any more like that?

 

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Sorry, no.........Just happened to walk by an open door and snapped a picture. For some reason they had left the door open so one could look in.

Pete

Not as interesting, but here's a tanker offloading fuel to the Maasdam.

Here is the forward line handling room on the Coral Princess in 2008...we were walking the promenade deck and they left the door open :)

I was slightly amazed at how clean it was.

Sorry for the blurry pictures - the camera didn't do so well in the light on the setting I had it on. :(

You might also be interested in this thread - Photos Of the Bridge

Ever wondered what it looks like behind all the glitz and glamor?

 

Those are great!

This is where all Food and Beverage waste is sorted, processed,etc.

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All glass is collected to be later disposed of, ashore someplace..

The Environmental Officer informed us that glass was his most difficult-to-dispose-of material

due to a shortage of land-based handlers! (strange,I thought)

Anyone in the glass-recycling business may want to step up and take advantage?

Overall view of the room

Cardboard boxes that once contained your meat,fruit,veg and butter

are flattened and stored for later disposal.

Environmental disposal controls on cruise ships are now incredibly strict! :eek:

You have no idea!! ;)

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Here is the forward line handling room on the Coral Princess in 2008...

 

 

 

 

I was slightly amazed at how clean it was. ===> Norovirus starts -and gets- everywhere!

If I'm not mistaken, it's a big ole brake liner (wrong term,I'm sure...)

presumably to go on one of the large-dia. spool-drum thingys, no?

Looks like it's got 13 maybe 14 brake-pads(look at the color) on it.

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Hi alpmac

Enjoying looking at these unusual shots very much,I wish I had some,I'll look through and see if I've got any.

But all the shots so far have been great so everyone is setting a very high standard.!

Well done for starting it!!

Cheers Doc07

... all the shots so far have been great, so everyone is setting a very high standard.! ===> Never mind that..

 

 

Well done for starting it!! ===> Glad you're enjoying the rare sights!

Submit what you have irrespective of 'quality'..sharpness..whatever.

This thread is not about pretty pictures! :)

Even those blurred shots, some few posts above

shared lots of visual-info re. what happens behind the scenes!

-so please post away! ;)

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No fancy carpeting and cute,colour-coordinated decor here!

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It's almost hard to believe you are on a beautiful cruise ship seeing these pictures. Such a difference from the public areas.

It's almost hard to believe you are on a beautiful cruise ship

seeing these pictures. ===> It's a gorgeous ship!

 

Such a difference from the public areas.

I was on board the ship for about 4 hrs.

and during that time our group moved seamlessly between the two worlds

This is just a bulkhead away!

It was quite strange at first, but after awhile you came to realize..

this is what it's like for the crew members who move in both,parallel worlds

-unlike us paying passengers who move in one world only!

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Wow, do you have anymore "behind the scenes" pics? I'd love to see them.

Wow, do you have any more "behind the scenes" pics? I'd love to see them.

OK, here are the guys in the galley, preparing Lunch..

That should keep you until the next round, I hope... :)

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I'm curious what ship you were on. When we took the Ultimate Princess tour on the Island Princess recently, we were told absolutely no cameras.

I'm curious what ship you were on.

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fun pics...thanks so much for posting

General crew movement areas..

I'm thinking that striped black-and-yellow area of the floor..

is where sections of the hull may not have 'mated' quite accurately

during hull assembly, modular section by modular section?

Minor fitting mistakes are bound to happen during assembly of huge sections of pre-fab hull

and it's just too darned late to un-weld everything and start over

..so they make a little ramp to adapt floor level by the 1 - 1.5 inch error in elevation? :confused:

Surely it can't be like that, on purpose...by design ?

Anyone ?

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Actually it could be by design, metal contracts and expands depending on temps.

Actually it could be by design, metal contracts and expands depending on temps.

Thanks for pointing that out. Makes sense...quite a possibility.

I have no idea what part of the ship that shot was taken,other than a lower deck...

but it could indeed be somewhere where a cool-ish section meets a warm-ish section

-or something like that? ;)

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Sure looks tasty!

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I'll see what I can do, on this cruise I'm currently on til Apr. 24th.

I'm surprised there haven't been more submissions of this behind-the-scenes nature, frankly.

Maybe such pics are rarer than I thought, after all...

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The yellow and black stripes on the groove in the floor look like warning stripes to me, where a remotely controlled watertight door would slide across and close in the case of an emergency. That would also explain the "dogs" or handles on the left side.

That's my theory, anyway...