neutrino78x

Sheesh I would think a cruise ship would try to have an abundance of potable water. On submarines, we used the heat from the nuclear reactor to produce 5000 gallons (18,927 L) of potable water every day. 120 people (about 100 enlisted, about 20 officers) in our 560 foot (170 m) long boat have to share it, so that's 42 gallons (158 L) of water per person per day. Which isn't much (that's ALL your potable water...for doing dishes, cleaning, soda, coffee, drinking water, "bug juice" (crystal light), etc.). It means that your showers consist of, turn on the water for 2 seconds, turn it off, put soap on, turn the water back on for two seconds, turn it off, shower is over. You get two of those every 18 hours. If we start to use too much potable water, the Captain just orders the showers secured (valves turned off so no one can take a shower) until people get the water use down again.

But we never secured the water fountains for drinking.

But it's just the size of the potable water tanks. The reactor could happily produce a lot more potable water than that if we had bigger tanks to hold it. I would think a huge cruise ship would have a potable water tank 10x the size if not more. If there's enough water that they're not making you take submarine/Navy showers, I'm surprised there is not free potable water.

Are most cruise lines like that? I am intimately familiar with it being a limited resource, but like I said, if you're not being made to take submarine showers, there should be plenty of potable water.

I'm poking around their web site right now. I see that standard drink package includes coffee...is there not a coffee machine in the stateroom? Oh right civilians call it a cabin 🙂 (of course, even the smallest "cabin" on a cruise ship is like the Captain's stateroom on a submarine...) Is there a coffee machine in the cabin? I typically stay at the Hilton and they always have a coffee machine in the room. 🙂

14 hours ago, Italian_Cruiser said:

 

I have a slight preference towards MSC, but I would say that in the end both are comparable products. I would say MSC is more 'classy' while costa is more 'young'.

 

oh ok. Sounds like I would prefer Costa then. I'm turning 42 this month, but I don't drink, and don't enjoy dressing formally. I like the fact that their ships are Italian flag and not Flag of Convenience as well. 🙂

Italian_Cruiser, how about dress code? Can one get by with a t-shirt and jeans? (my uniform in my civilian life lol.)

Are there onboard activities like Rock Walls, zip lines, laser tag anything like that?

Any single women? :)

Can you get a vodka martini, shaken, not stirred? lol joke :)

Does anyone know if this ship shall be flagged in the UK? I heard she is being built in Germany. They have a decent Navy as well so Germany wouldn't be a flag of convenience...but I fear since it is Carnival and they most of the other P&O ships in the Bahamas that this one shall be flagged there as well 😞

At least P&O has one UK flagged vessel, the Britannia.

I just feel that Flags of Convenience are a huge moral issue and I would want to sail on a ship that is flagged in a country with a powerful Navy and good labor standards (USA, UK, France, Italy, Norway, Italy, etc.).

Hi, seems like the most popular cruise line for single people looking for a t-shirt and jeans atmosphere (I'm definitely a t-shirt and jeans kind of guy) are the ones that usually use Flag of Convenience ships, like Royal Caribbean.

Are there any that have a similar experience but don't use FoC ships? I'm thinking about for example Costa (most flagged in Italy), Holland America (most flagged in Netherlands), P&O (at least one is UK flag), Viking (Norway)....do all those have an older crowd with some kind of dress code?

I used to post here a long time ago, I think my account was deleted due to inactivity, lol...so I made a new one with the same username...back then people were saying that maybe cruising isn't for me since I'm not into full service restaurants and things like that. Eh, maybe they're right. I think going on one from time to time just because I was in the Navy and wouldn't mind traveling on a ship as a "rider" as we called them, lol... :)