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.