Celebrity Eclipse
Can this form of holidaying still remain popular?
The Celebrity Eclipse has recently left her construction dockyard at Papenburg, Germany bound for her home base. This enormous new ship attracted some news simply because the exercise of getting her from the dockyard to the open sea required some ‘shoe-horning’! This YouTube video shows why (amateur filming but a great soundtrack!):
The Celebrity Solstice leaving the dockyard (backwards!) at Papenburg
All would wish any ship that sets out to sea safe travel. But one wonders whether this huge ship, that must require such huge sums of money just to stay afloat, and that must have been conceived and ordered when times were much rosier, will ever be a commercial success?
By Paul Handover
Paul Handover
Wonder what the designers and builders of the Titanic would say about this??
Gloria Squires
March 16, 2010 at 15:16
There’s a thing – I was musing last night about writing a piece on Harland & Wolff who built the RMS Titanic!
Paul Handover
March 16, 2010 at 17:01
That sounds like a great idea – we hear a lot about the sinking less about the building a different perspective would be good.
Gloria Squires
March 16, 2010 at 20:24
Paul – are you not forgetting the rich, idle and otherwise? These luxurious cruise ships have always been their special treat, and even with a global meltdown there are enough of the 7 billion of us who can afford to get away from it all in style, especially on the latest, newest grown-ups’ toy.
(I have booked my cruise already ….)
Chris Snuggs
May 17, 2010 at 12:58