In China, there are plans to build a "super cruise liner." It will likely be accompanied by a new cruise terminal and shipping business center, all of which will cost several billion yuan — or about $3 billion.
What's interesting about this item is the perception.
The 100,000-ton luxury cruise ship, which will take about four years to build, will carry a little over 2,000 passengers.
Is that a super cruise liner?
The company that will operate the ship has a development partnership with Royal Caribbean. That's the same company that built Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas. Each of those ships weighs about 225,000 gross tons. Each carries somewhere between 5,400 and 6,300 passengers.
Isn't that what a super cruise liner is?
Holland America Prinsendam
15 nights
October 31, 2012
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Inside: $799
Cost per day: $53
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