Know More About Royal Caribbean Cruises 2011
Want to get away from your routine life? Often times, the suggestion is to take a vacation and land into a new place, stay in a hotel, play and while away use your time, as you like. But the usual places accessible by road or plane will not give you the thrills your looking for. Then what will? Going into the sea, through a luxury vessel, seeing many places and ports of call on the way and coming back to your boarding destination would be ideal. This is what offered by Royal Caribbean Cruises 2011.
First, some amazing facts about cruising industry. Even by a conservative estimate, dating to 2005, some 14 million tourists were entertained by this industry worldwide. North America and Caribbean Islands were the most popular tourist destinations, sharing 70% of this traffic.
The industry engaged in floating liners to the above destinations is most popular and growing. In just 10 years from 1983 to 1993, passenger traffic increased from a mere 900,850 to 2.3 million. 10 major vessel operators, apart from several smaller ones are in this particular business.
Most of the ships carrying passengers on pleasure trips – nearly one third of them – sail out of Miami, followed by Port Everglade in Fort Lauderdale and Port Canaveral near Orlando. And the busiest port of call for these ships is The Bahamas. In 1994, ship arrivals on this popular tourist destination were estimated as 1.8 million.
Coming to the luxuries available and entertainment facilities in these “floating hotels” on the sea, the list is long. Yet to quote a few – Shops, Library, Casinos, Cinema, Broadway-style Theaters, Indoor as well as outdoor swimming pools, Clubs, Gym, Fitness Center, Hot tub, Spa, and multi-cuisine restaurants, serving both buffet style and room service.
The largest and most popular liner operator is Royal Caribbean International. The ships owned by this operator, carry the name invariably ending with the words “of the seas”. Examples are Oasis of the Seas, Allure of the Seas, Freedom of the Seas etc.
Just for your estimation of the adequacy of provisioning in these ships see this. For feeding the passengers on voyage, one of these ships – Mariner of the Seas alone – consume in a week: 9,000 Kgs. Of beef, ice cream 30,000 liters, 28,000 eggs and pizzas 18,000 slices. And that is a lot of food, especially considering it is all prepared in a gourmet style to match the best land based restaurants.
Looking back in history, the first luxury liner built for pleasure purposes of the passengers was Prinzessin Victoria Luise in 1900. In the same way, you cannot forget another liner with well-appointed state room and fine dining facilities – Titanic. Contrary to the older liners, modern luxury ships carrying passengers on board for pleasure travel are designed as “floating condominiums” with all amenities.
The largest Company running pleasure travel ships mentioned above have a variety of scheduled departures for 2011-2012. Starting from Year-round Caribbean & Bahamas Cruises, they have Mariner of the Seas moving from Los Angeles to Europe, 13 itineraries for Australia through Radiance of the Seas, and 34 Voyages to Alaska. So you have every reason to enjoy Royal Caribbean Cruises 2011.