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CruisingChapter 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 ShipsAccommodate 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 ShipsPowered 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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• Ferries

Provide an overnight or

even multiday, cruise like experience, with private

staterooms, glitzy entertainment, and bountiful dining.

• Multipurpose ShipsThey carry cargo, transport passengers between close-by villages and yes-serve 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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Ship Facilities

Private: Crew

Public: Stateroom

Public: Pool Deck

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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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The Dining Room• Guest eat here

(breakfast, lunch, dinner).

• Larger ships feature several main dining rooms.

Lido Deck

(buffet like dining) inside or outside.

• Examples:a. Pizzerias

b. Fast Food

c. 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, tee-shirts, 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

• 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.

• Certain vessels it on the concierge level. This person helps arrange certain services for them. Or they may even have a butler.

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The stateroom normally have:

• 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

Starboard- right side

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Each deck has a name and/or

number.

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