Did you know? Interesting Cruise Facts

• Cruise ships on modern design can actually cost about six hundred and sixty million dollars.
• A modern luxury cruise vessel is able to be built, fitted out and tested in one-and-a half years though it usually takes about three years.
  
• On average, there are one hundred and five thousand meals  prepared every single week on board a cruise ship. The meals include twenty thousand pounds of beef, twelve thousand pounds of chicken and twenty eight thousands of eggs.
• Caribbean is the most popular cruising destination in the world with almost every cruise line operator.
• There are about one thousand crew members on board the average ships to cater to passengers every need. These people are experts from engineers to waiter to navigators
  
• There are over 2000 ports of call around our planet that cruise ships can visit
• For some cruisers, the ship itself is the primary destination, not the ports of call.
• The latest super-sized ships carry over 4 thousand people (counting passengers and crew). They would dwarf the Titanic and are as tall as a sixteen-story building.
• On average the following food and drink are consumed DAILY on cruise ships (from Disney cruise line): 8,260 cups of coffee, 5,000 eggs for breakfast, 2,000 steaks, 1,000 baked potatoes, and 1,150 pounds of bananas.