Cruising
Chapter 3
The Anatomy of a Cruise Ship
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Objectives
• After reading this chapter you will be able
to:
• Classify ships according to their style.
• Compare older ship styles to newer ones.
• Explain how ship size and space are
measured.
• List the facilities found on most cruise
vessels.
• Interpret a deck plan.
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Styles of Ships
The Classic Ocean
liner
Primarily used for
transatlantic crossings or
world voyages, and mostly
built before 1970, they’re
sleek, streamlined, and built
to knife their way
through
open ocean waves.
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The contemporary
cruise ship.
The industry generally
calls these giant-sized
ships megaships.
They accommodate
2,000 passengers or
more and have 12 or
more decks (the
equivalent of a story in
a building).
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• Small Ships
Accommodate fewer than
200 passengers.
These ships often stress
education, soft adventure,
and/or luxury experiences.
They often look like cruise
Ships in miniature or
oversized yachts.
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Masted Sailing Ships
Powered by the wind.
They have motors
incase the wind dies
down.
People who sail on
such ships want an
experience rooted in
other times, when
billowing cloth and
the romance of the
sea were what sailing
was all about.
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Riverboats
Great steamboats of
the nineteenth
century.
Modern-style
riverboats, too, are
popular vehicles for
experiencing such
legendary rivers s the
Rhine, the Danube,
and the Nile.
• Barges
Passenger barges
are luxurious,
affording a
pampered and
leisurely discovery
of the countryside.
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Riverboat
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Barge
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• Multipurpose Ships
• Ferries
Provide an
overnight or even
multiday, cruise
like experience,
with private
staterooms, glitzy
entertainment,
and bountiful
dining.
They carry cargo,
transport passengers
between close-by
villages and yesserve as cruise ships for
leisure travelers too.
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Sizing Ships
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1. By the number of staterooms.
2. How many passengers the ship
accommodate.
3. Measure the gross registered tonnage or
GRT. GRT is determined by a formula
that gauges the volume of the public
space on a ship.
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Private: Crew
Ship Facilities
Public: Pool Deck
Public: Stateroom
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Space is divided into 3 types.
a. Stateroom space
b. Private (crew) space
c. Public space
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• Passengers almost never see the spaces that
serves the ship’s crew. (They are usually on
decks below those of the passengers).
• These include crew cabins, dining areas, and
recreation facilities.
• The Bridge (where the vessel is controlled). The
galley or kitchen (where food is prepared), &
mechanical areas (engine room).
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Public Spaces
(where passengers mingle)
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The Reception Area:
• Purser’s office (front desk, hotel desk,
reception desk or information desk).
• This is equivalent of a hotel’s front desk.
• Nearby is the shore excursion office where
passengers can inquire about and/or book
port tours and activities.
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Lido Deck
(buffet like dining) inside
or outside.
• Examples:
The Dining Room
• Guest eat here
(breakfast, lunch,
dinner).
• Larger ships
feature several
main dining
rooms.
a.
b.
c.
Pizzerias
Fast Food
Ice Cream Bar
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The Showroom
• Entertainment events
usually take place
here each night.
The Pool Area
• Deck w/ many lounge
chairs & tables.
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The Health Club
• Exercise with an
aerobic areas,
stationary bicycles,
treadmills, and weight
machines.
The Children’s Area
• Their features and
activities often are
tailored to multiple
age groups (e.g.
young children, older
children ,and teens.
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Gift Shop
• Purchase souvenirs, duty-free goods, teeshirts, and the like.
Medical Facility
• Maritime law requires any vessel that
carries more than 100 passengers to
have a physical onboard and often one or
more nurses. Small hospital like facility.
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Photo Gallery
• At key moments and picturesque spots,
professional photographers take phots of
passengers.
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The Movie Theater
• Many ships feature screenings of recent
movies in a theater. These rooms also
serve as meeting spaces.
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The Internet Café
• Time-based fee,
passengers can send
and receive e-mail.
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Casino
• Since gambling is usually legal on ships,
most cruise vessels boast casinos where
clients can play blackjack, roulette, slot
machines and other games.
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Cruise Staterooms
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• A stateroom—also called a cabin—is to a
ship what a guest room is to a hotel.
• The average American hotel room is 350
to 450 sq. feet.
• Cruise ships staterooms are 100 sq. ft. to
250 sq. ft.
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Outside Stateroom
• These have windows.
• They’re ideal for clients who
worry about feeling cramped.
• Some staterooms feature a
full-wall sliding glass door that
leads to a verandah, which
enables to go outside and
experience the environment in
a direct and private way.
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Inside Stateroom
No windows, but often use
mirrors, pastel colors,
bright lighting, and even
false window drapes to
make the room feel more
open.
Many cruisers prefer
inside staterooms
because these rooms
usually are the least
expensive on the sip.
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Suites Stateroom
• Certain vessels it on the
concierge level. This person
helps arrange certain services
for them. Or they may even
have a butler.
• Most expensive. Feature a
sitting area and a sleeping
area, often divided by a curtain
and featuring just under 300
sq. ft. of living area.
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The stateroom normally have:
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2 single lower beds.
Upper beds can accommodate 3 or 4 ppl.
Bedstand
Vanity
Closet
Television
Extensive lighting
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Reading a Deck Plan
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• A ship plan usually consist of two
elements: The deck plan (floorplan) and a
cross section of the ship, with each “layer”
shown (only those decks that are “public”
are indicated. Sometimes accompanying
the deck plan are floor plans of various
kinds of staterooms.
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• Deck plan are important. Guest can often
select the exact staterooms they want when they
cruise is booked.
• In a brochures, color coding makes a deck plan
easy to read. Colors help indicate which price
categories apply to which staterooms.
• A stateroom category is the price s that a
certain kind of level of stateroom represents.
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• Usually the higher the deck the higher the
price.
• Deck plans often note certain special
stateroom circumstances.
• Deck plans are also posted aboard ship.
Usually located in the elevator/staircase
areas.
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Bow – front
of ship.
Stern –
back of
ship.
Port- left
side facing
forward
Starboardright side
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Each deck
has a
name
and/or
number.
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