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Unfortunately the Highways Agency have real potholes.
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[Travel] Symphony of the Seas - the largest passenger ship ever to be constructed
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Unfortunately the Highways Agency have real potholes.
cloud
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I suspect you won't find any. Cruises seem to be a love-hate type of holiday; you know instinctively what they will be like and avoid them if it's not your cup of tea.
I think they're like holiday camps on water, and I would never go to a holiday camp either, so the choice is an easy one. I also find them very expensive - I prefer to travel independently and keep costs down, but I understand that lots of people want all of that organisation and planning done for them, and are happy to pay for it.
MattBackHome
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What even is a virtual balcony?
It's more use than a virtual lifeboat.
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The green code as featured in The Matrix consists of random numbers and letters plus sushi recipes.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Booked a last minute week away deal in Madeira at the back end of last year. Based in Funchal. Nice small city. Had never really considered the impact of cruise liners on nice small cities before. Took about two days to suss not to even attempt to try and use the place before about 2pm when the cruise liner inmates had pissed off back to the boat. Lovely place, but must be hell there if you just want to go out to lunch.
The Spanish
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i like the fact that people moan about cruise passengers clogging up places where they are on holiday too.
You don’t have to be stuck on one for days. We did a 14 day cruise, during which we only had 3 actual ‘sea days’. The rest of the days were spent in nice towns and cities with culture and variety (lots of variety, given the cities were all in different countries)
And that is something I do get and would like, but I'd like it on a small ship, so there aren't 6,000 of us getting off at the same port, all wanting to go to the same place.
Think there was about 2500 on the one we were on, never had much of a wait to get on/off but with 6000 I could see it being a bit chaotic at some ports. There were such a range of trips and tours starting at different times I think the flow was evened out.........
Rather than ask what a virtual balcony is, I googled it. It actually is a thing!
http://www.royalcaribbean.com/connect/an-inside-room-with-a-view/
wtf
Scappa
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It's currently in the Bay of Biscay ~70kms off the French coast, so probably not. https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:5345430/zoom:9
Looks like it was her sister ship, Ovation of the Seas https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/shipid:3931387/zoom:10
1234andcounting
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Cruise ships; holidays for people who don't really like travelling or going abroad.
Publius Ovidius
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I'll find the links.
Publius Ovidius
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Hilarious.
Publius Ovidius
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Fair enough, I suspect most cruisers are oblivious to the fact that their hulking great boat sitting just off the coast impairs the view for those on land.
Which ones have you tried ?