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Sea cruises are one of the safest views. However, you may not even guessed about some dangers that are waiting for you in a cruise.

1. Shipwreck

The most common phobia, because still everyone has the shipwreck of the Italian Costa Concordia. In fact, in the newest history, this shipwreck is unique. We now do not take into account Asian or African ferries, which do not comply with any safety standards and loading passengers. With the volume of transportation of the largest cruise companies in tens of millions of passengers per year, only one shipwreck with 32 dead was recorded. At the same time, more than 4,200 passengers and members of the Costa Concordia team were successfully evacuated. Of course, I would not like to be on board the crash of the liner, but, with this volume of transportation, it is unlikely that it will happen to you.

How to protect yourself?

Do not skip security exercises. Shipwreck You are unlikely to prevent, but at least you will know how to save yourself in an emergency situation. Where the evacuation point, how to wear a life jacket and other important information is given on the exercises on the day of planting.

The Costa Concordia liner failed on the night of January 14, 2012. On board there were about 4.2 thousand people, including more than 100 Russian tourists. 32 people died. None of the Russians suffered

2. Fire

But this is already a more real trouble, especially since the fires often occur through the fault of passengers. Fire in a closed cruise liner space, and even in the sea, when the help of waiting for nowhere is very scary.

How to protect yourself?

Do not neglect fire safety rules. Do not bore on board and do not turn on the prohibited heating electrical appliances, such as irons and teapots, the voltage of the side network of the liner is not designed for such loads. Do not smoke in the cabins, do not throw away the unintended cigarets overboard, a strong sea wind will immediately throw them back to the lower deck, where towels and other flammable items can lie. Just look at the photos below to understand the consequences.

4. Accidents with children

No matter how reliable the infrastructure of the liner, if you travel with young children, you can not forget about their safety. Unfortunately, a few cases are known when children left unattended, drowned in cruise liner pools. Despite the fact that in the pools is usually always crowded, and it is not clear how it can occur at all with such a number of people, it happens.

In May 2015, a 10-year-old girl drowned in the pool on board Norwegian Gem. Also known that on February 3, 2014, a 4-year-old baby died on board the Norwegian Breakaway liner. The liner staff discovered two children of 4 and 6 years old in an adult pool unconscious. Immediately, assistance was provided and a 6-year-old child was taken to the hospital, and the 4-year-old boy could not lead to a feeling and he died on board. Such stories happen on the liners of other cruise lines. Only Disney cruise company, oriented with children with children has special observers in the pool area.

5. Rape by Personnel

Yes, yes, it happens. This glaring case occurred on the Nieuw Amsterdam liner of Holland America on February 14, 2014, when the ship was swimming. The 28-year-old cleaner from Indonesia Ketute Pujayas passed into the cabin of a 31-year-old citizen of the United States, beat it and raped. After that, the attacker tried to reset the woman from the balcony. It is reported, the cleaner came to her in the room until she was, opened the door with his master key, passed on the balcony and waited there. When she returned, he entered the balcony and thrown on her. The attacker beat the American laptop on his head and stifled with a telephone wire, and then raped. The victim managed to escape, because at the door of her cabins knocked another passenger. The man tried to hide from the crime scene, climbing from the balcony to the balcony. American has received serious injuries. Cruise liner has stopped in Honduras, from where the victim delivered a helicopter to the Florida clinic

Pujayas were charged with an attempt to murder and sexual violence with aggravating circumstances. He was also dismissed from Holland America, where she worked from 2012. In the company, journalists stated that they thoroughly checked the Indonesian before welcome work, but no criminal episodes were found in his biography.

6. Fall per board

A 22-year-old passenger Liner Oasis of the Seas Frank Jade washed off a giant wave during his walk on the open deck. Because of the fact that everything happened early in the morning none of the passengers and staff did not notice. After some time, he was seen by the passengers of another Disney Magic vessel, which followed the same course, and safely saved. About 20 people annually turn out to be beyond cruise liners, and some do it consciously.

Frame from dramatic video By rescue Frank, filmed from Disney Magic.

7. Collision of ships

Despite the most modern systems of navigation and warning of collisions, the accidents still happen. This usually happens in ports in maneuvers or strong wind.

Celestyal Crystal cruise liner, who followed Greece to Istanbul, on June 27, 2015, ran into the Pimlico tanker. Both vessels received significant damage. There are no injured among people. The share traccling occurred due to both courts, the traffic control center in the Strait warned both vessels about the danger of a collision.

In September 2013, Steam Superfast II due to a strong wind disrupted from mooring in the port of Bari, because of which there was a collision with a cruise liner Mein Schiff 2 cruise operator TUI Cruises. None of the people suffered.

8. Dangers on the shore

Nine people died in a plane crash in Alaska in June 2015, during the coast tour of the Hal Westerdam liner. The reason was bad weather conditions. The seaplane with the passengers of the liner, which bought a tour, crashed into the rock.

We hope that this article we did not beat your desire to go to the cruise. After all, on land there are no less danger. As they say, "warned, it means armed!".

Going around the half of the world, sunbathing sadness, disrupt the Kush in the casino and soak in modern SPA - Yes, it is not enough for a whole vacation, you will say.

And it will be wrong.

Why sea cruises have become an ideal format of recreation and what can be done in 10 days aboard a liner, a specialist in individual tours of the company is given and a lover of resorts in the open sea, Cyril Nikushkin.

- What is this swimming in your dossier of a professional cruise? How does this trip fundamentally different from the previous ones?

During her last navigation, I counted that I went to the cruise already 23 times.

In 17 trips, I accompanied Russian-speaking groups of tourists aboard the cruise liner.

Despite the fact that I spent a lot of time on board, the desire to go on vacation in the maritime journey did not significantly decreased.

This year I had the opportunity to choose between a rest on the beach and a cruise, I chose the last and went in swimming on the 23rd time as a passenger.

The geography of cruise travel is a whole world, and it is more than just words. Each route is a unique trip, seasoned with bright impressions and new discoveries.

- How did you meet cruises?

My first acquaintance with the marine cruises happened 5 years ago, when I came to work in the company Dan and CEO Karina Vladimirovna Berdichevskaya "infected" me with passion for traveling by maritime expanses.

For a long time I loved sea cruises "at a distance", studied details and details of travel design. In the process, I managed to debunk my own fears and myths about what it was - traveling on a cruise liner.

Our first meeting took place in 2013, when I went to the voyage from Kiel to St. Petersburg on the MSC Musica liner.

Emotions from travel simply hit, I "hooked" and was ready to break in swimming at any moment.

The chance introduced himself in 2014 in the summer. I was invited to accompany Russian-speaking groups in a 3-month navigation from St. Petersburg in the Baltic Sea and Norwegian fjords.

For 3 months in the sea, the liners of a cruise company have become a hometown for me (during this time I have visited MSC POESIA and MSC ORCHESTRA liners).

These are real floating palaces where life boils and always have something to take.

It is difficult for me to give preference to one direction - for cruise travels and a whole world a little! In general, I would recommend to go to the tour to countries where it is difficult to go under the standard tour.

One of these directions was opened in the winter of 2017 - the MSC Fantasia liner went to the Persian Gulf Water, and visited the lands of Qatar and Bahrain, previously inaccessible to our travelers.

- How do you struggle with "maritime disease"?

The most frequent questions that ask me is about the feeling when you are not on land for a long time and how to survive sea disease.

Let's start in order:

Family accustomed to a long time to be in the sea, without the feeling of hard soil under their feet.

However, the feeling of discomfort lasts the first day, after which it is imperceptible to himself begun to move on the ship as if she spent his life on a liner.

After her first cruise, I felt a little smoky swing, comparable to sensations after a long trip by train.

The most important thing is that I care about the beginners "cruises" - a pitching on board and sea disease. During his numerous swimming pools, people with manifestations did not meet and did not hear complaints even from the crew members.

To the question of a hatching.

Indeed, sometimes on board there is a lung swaying, but all the liners are equipped with modern stabilizers that minimize the unpleasant sensations for passengers on board.

You can get rid of them from them a variety of ways:

• drinking Little Silts Sylgorized Drink
• eat apple
• drink 100 ml of any alcoholic beverage

Sea pitch - no reason to give up a cruise trip!

- What to do aboard liner?

Contrary to the problem that cruises are designed for older people - there is something on board a liner than to do, even if you have not turned 30 years old.

Theater is located on each liner (in the evenings there are performances and entertainment shows with the participation of eminent acrobats, actors and gymnasts) and visiting for each passenger absolutely free.

Those who do not complain the theater, waiting for bars with live music, a "La Carte Restaurants, shops, casino, simulators Formula 1, 4D cinema, bowling, disco and entertainment programs with many contests.

Not every single-inclusive hotel can boast of such a wide range of entertainment.

- What to do on board families with children?

Families with children in a special employee at cruise companies - the smallest guests on the liner will be occupied in a mini-club, honing drawing skills, laying out of plasticine or playing with animators. A nice bonus for parents - a place to a child in a cruise is paid at a reduced price, and on some routes can be completely free.

Also do not forget about the pools and slides on the liner. Nannies on board are (service for an additional fee). There are slot machines that also work for an additional fee.

Adults entertains animation team all day until late in the evening, various games, contests are held (Karaoke star, culinary contests and other)

Every day on board a cruise liner is not similar to the previous one.

Once a cruise passes the captain's evening, where you can make a photo with a captain liner and chat with the commander of the ship crew or take an invitation from the officer to the dance.

Every day after dinner for adults, thematic parties are held - Italian evening, Brazilian carnival, disco 70s, 80s, a Greek party, etc. Choose what you like - and go having fun.

Those who like to spend time with benefit and pleasure in boutiques - note! As soon as the liner comes out of the port, it turns into a giant Duty-Free zone, where special promotions and discounts in stores apply for passengers.

Purchase perfume cheaper than at the airport is a minimum task (compared - really so!).

- If you go to swim, then what cabin to choose?

In the question of the cabins will begin with the main one.

On board the cruise liner there is no cabin, which are located below Waterlinia - even the crew members do not live in such.

I lived in all types of cabin. My favorite is a cabin with a balcony. You can go to the balcony when the liner mooring and look at the whole process, you can have breakfast on the balcony or just breathe fresh sea breeze - such moments will never forget.

The cabins on board are the following types:

Without windows or internal cabins

For lovers to save perfectly, the cabin without a window is suitable - the lowest cost is presented in the booking system.

Most Europeans prefer such types of cabins, because the cruise liner does not take much time in the cabin.

The only negative cabin without a window is the lack of natural light, plus in the morning it is difficult to understand where you are.

Cabin with window

The cabin with the window is located near the cruise liner. The cabin area with the window varies from 18 to 20 square meters. Usually it has a square panoramic window, a round porthole, less often - two round portholes.

In both cases, windows and portholes do not open for security purposes. In the cabin with a window there is a TV, hairdryer, safe, climate control, telephone, bathroom with shower, 2 separate beds (can be connected), bedside tables, cabinets, dressing table.

Cabin with balcony

It has a TV, hairdryer, safe, climate control, telephone, bathroom with shower, two separate beds or one large, bedside tables, wardrobes, dressing table, zone for receiving guests with a sofa, in some cabins there is a full-fledged bathroom.

- Where can you be delicious and quickly eating?

On board, you can always eat in two places: this is a buffet (20 hours of 24 options) and a restaurant a la map (on the menu).

The main difference between these restaurants among themselves - in the menu restaurant you can only read about the dish.

In the Swedish Table you can choose a dish not only on the basis of text, but also visual impressions.

It is more comfortable for me to eat at the menu restaurant. It is most often served dishes that are not served in the buffet zone and there is no atmosphere of turmoil and constant running over dishes.

For those who adhere to a special diet or have nutrition restrictions, you can create a special menu. This should be warned by your manager when booking a cruise.

If you are going to a cruise trip to a large company and want to sit together at one table in the A la Card restaurant - warn the manager in advance.

- What about drinks?

The cost of the cruise includes: water, tea, coffee and cream in the buffet zone. If you want to drink something from the bar near the pool or minibar in the cabin, be prepared for the fact that it will have to pay extra.

Cappuccino cup - 2 euros. A glass of beer will cost 4 euros, a cocktail of 7 euros. A compulsory tax in the amount of 15% will be added to any purchase on board in bars and restaurants.

To avoid unnecessary overpayments - it is better to take a package of drinks (if you have fun in full).

A package makes it possible to eat drinks in any quantity (with the exception of extra-class beverages) costs a passenger 26 euros per day.

Based on the practice, this amount pays for itself, even if the passenger does not use alcohol, but only soft drinks prefers.

In addition to the "All Inclusive" packages, there are packages for: coffee, wine, water, beer and juices. About buying a package, it is better to take care in advance (when placing a cruise or 1 week before departure) to save and avoid surcharge + 15%.

- Is it necessary to acquire excursions and how to pay attention?

Book excursions are optional, but very desirable.

Otherwise, you will miss a lot of interesting things.

If in the process of swimming, you plan to take part in excursions, then pay attention to cruises in the Russian group - excursions here are guaranteed to be held in Russian.

To get into Russian groups, excursions will have to buy in advance - when the cruise is cleaned, since groups are formed before the start of the trip.

As a rule, excursions are these bus and include a small pleasure part. Such excursions are limited in time and do not assume the presence of a large amount of free time.

If tourists travel in a cruise without the Russian group, then take part in the excursions perhaps in any other foreign language - English, German, French, Italian, Spanish.

- Does there always have Russian groups on board and what to do if they are not?

Basic languages \u200b\u200baboard cruise liners: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish.

Cruises with Russian groups are regularly found on the route Western Mediterranean, Persian Bay, Northern Europe, Caribbean countries.

For cruises with Russian groups, the following bonuses are provided:

Russian-speaking services accompanying on board, which deals with the transfer of the day program

Menu in a restaurant in Russian,

Important announcements on the information board in Russian,

Information Meetings and Stories on the route

Operational solution of passenger problems on board

Accompanying on excursions or excursion for translation.

For those who are afraid, or experiences problems with the language - the most it is!

Also in each department there is Russian-speaking staff, waiters, animators, Cabin Stuart.

- How are things going with the cost of the Internet and Wi-Fi?

If you need to check the mail or lay out a photo in instagram during a cruise voyage.

You can use both fixed computer and Wi-Fi.

On board the liner there are various packages for using the Internet:

• the minimum packet (for checking social networks) costs from 12 euros per day
• a full-fledged compound will cost 44 euros per day.

Packages on the Internet can be purchased both on board and in advance when booking a cruise.

- When to book cruises and is there any special offers and discounts for travelers?

Cruising travel is the only product that can be booked and 2 years before departure.

The earlier to book and purchase a cruise, the more you can save. So, using the early booking service, the traveler saves up to 60% (verified personally).

4-5 times a year Cruise companies launch promotions where the cost of the cruise reaches 100 euros.

During the year, special rates and suggestions are operating for age groups (for young people from 18 to 29 years old, for guests over 65 years old), for families with children (on adjacent cabins or additional cabins for children).

For those who plan to celebrate a significant event on board a cruise liner, pleasant bonuses and gifts are provided - free upgrade cabins, a photo session, communication with captain or free dinner in the thematic restaurant.

To everyone who is just starting to join this wonderful kind of recreation, I will say - trying necessarily! Open new countries and directions!

Now the company MSC announced the sale for 2019 around the world cruise, in full swing, go to new liners, which will go swimming in the Mediterranean Sea and the Caribbean.

The word "cruise" scares the average Russian tourist just as they scare the mighty, grown on the dumplings of the Siberian peasant frogs in sour cream. And in vain. Paws ... that is, cruises, - an excellent alternative to the tourist menu. Moreover, they have a number of advantages.

The lack of a static moment of ordinary resorts that transform holidaymakers into the amorphous sausages roasted in the sun - an already excellent incentive. Sea breeze, endless Dali, Albatrosse, soaring high in heaven, waves running out of a keel for the horizon - seems to be an excellent alternative, isn't it?

No unbearable tropical acclimatization, no persistent beach raised. And then, for the usual 7-10 days you have time to visit one country, and immediately in several, you will see the best seaports, life and people separated by languages \u200b\u200band borders. You can go to the cruise at any time of the year and in any part of the world - whether it is an exotic French Polynesia, an Ice Arctic or a classic Mediterranean.

The only minus for people with a sensitive vestibular apparatus is a sea disease. However, there are many ways to deal with maritime disease, so during the sea walk, poor health does not prevent the infinite expanses.

Question price: on what to save.

You will say: Cruise is great! However, the question in price. This is mad money. Yes. What? It is difficult to object to it. But again - the liners are different, not necessarily fashionable, cruises are different, not necessarily around the world, and the time of year is the same different, not necessarily summer. So the gradation of prices is quite large.

In terms of prices, by the way, there is one point. It will help you navigate and save. This is the location of the cabin. The most budget option is internal cabins. The cabins with the window are somewhat more expensive, but still less than cabins with a balcony. The lower decks are much cheaper than the upper, as well as the nose and feed compared to the center. Also, do not be afraid when I see the number in the booklet of the tour operator. The word "cruise" usually implies that its cost will include all entertainment and sports programs, sports equipment, swimming pool, meals, and sometimes alcohol. So to speak, leisure "turnkey". What is not included in the price - this is a shuttle to the place of departure, coastal tours and port fees, as well as some individual services - for example, SPA, washing and ironing clothes, some purchases on board.

Another "loophole" for savings - season. "Low" The tourist season is always cheaper than "high". The "low" season, by the way, in addition to the price, there is another advantage: most of the excursion of interesting port cities will be free from the crowd of tall tourists. You will be able to stroll on them slowly and with pleasure.

The cheapest tours are Mediterranean, the most expensive - on the southern hemisphere, the Arctic and Antarctic. In the summer, the "high" season is closer to subtropics, in winter - to the equator.

What else to consider when choosing a leisure cruise?

Size of the ship

Often it is even more important than his belonging to some cruise company. As a rule, the more ship, the greater the entertainment you will find on board. The design of large cruise liners can include pools, spa salons, casino clubs and other pleasant towns. Small ships of such luxury, of course, do not provide, however, they can offer something other - a cozy atmosphere of a small country pension.

Age of ships

The older the liner is the less likely that all its amenities will be placed in suitable rooms for this. In new ships, all functional premises are planned at the stage of its design, while on the ships of the earlier year of release you can, for example, to detect a sauna somewhere in the trunk.

Ship class

Note that the liners have the same "star" classification, as well as hotels. However, here the same stars mean somewhat different. For example, standard cabins 4 * are usually less than the rooms at the hotel with the same star, but the service and the situation here, on the contrary, is not an example better. Service, by the way, on any ocean liners, regardless of their class, age and size, is always very good. Perhaps because there is no way to go from the side, in principle, and it is much more difficult to get to work on such a liner than in a regular hotel.

Purpose of the trip

It is important to understand - what do you want to go away with friends or relax to relax with your family. For the first goal there are more small liners, and the giants of a cruise recreation, on the contrary, are usually perfectly adapted for family holidays - Nursery, children's playrooms, high railing. And in that and in another case, by the way, you can safely save: the pricing system is common among cruise companies, at which the first two passengers in the cabin pay the full cost of the cruise, and everyone else is much smaller.

Booking

Sea cruises - the question is in demand. Therefore, the most popular tickets must take the tickets for 3-4 months. Moreover, they are first to understand, as a rule, cabins of the lowest and highest classes. So in the middle class you can have time for the month or two. On sea cruises never happens "burning" prices. Here, everything is exactly the opposite: the cost increases the more, the closer the day of departure becomes.

Several tips that will help you always feel comfortable aboard liner

Before the journey

Going to the International Sea Cruise, we advise you to check if you have forgotten:
a) foreign passport in which the visas needed the necessary on the route must be affixed;
b) cruise ticket;
c) insurance medical policy;
d) good mood ...

ATTENTION! Liner are not waiting for!

The remaining tourists carry full material and moral responsibility for the consequences that arose in connection with their delay to the shipment of the vessel.

2. Please note, the luggage is surrendered to the port and delivered to the cabin (recommended tips for the delivery of baggage about $ 2 per unit, paid upon delivery of baggage - optional). At your discretion, the baggage can not be passed and delivered to the cabin independently (if this is not prohibited by the rules of the cruise company).

3. During the passage of customs and borderline formalities you take your passportemployees of the emigration service of the liner (for a cruise), climb the liner, place in the cabin (the cabin number is listed in the cruise ticket). At the end of the cruise (in the last or penultimate day after closing the side account)
Do not forget to pick up your passport for the reception!

4. Each cabin has information about the location of the services, the Liner Plan, the telephone directory of various services on the liner. Each cabin is equipped with a toilet, shower, air conditioning, telephone, TV.
Before sailing, "Educational anxiety" is always held. The turnout is mandatory. You must take a rescue vest and take part in this event.

SECURITY
As precautions, the security service can check the passenger and withdraw any items that, according to the company, can be dangerous for passengers, teams or liners. Passengers are not allowed on board any drinks and unpacked food in the baggage. The onboard staff has the right to confiscate them and return the day before landing from the liner.

During a cruise

1. Every day you will receive a program in the cabin with a detailed indication of the place, time and content of the vessels on board the ship, air and water temperature, as well as with general information about the city / port, recommendations on the choice of clothing, behavior features, etc.

2. We strongly ask you to follow the safety of your luggage. Values \u200b\u200band money is recommended to store in safes.

Onboard NCL liners have: Minimum 2 swimming pools, you can also use the jacuzzi, at your service cosmetic and SPA salons, a massage room, a hairdresser, a library, a hall of slot machines, a casino, several restaurants and bars, disco, Duty free shops, theater , Children's Entertainment Center and Much, More ...

Your wardrobe
You can choose clothes completely at your discretion, as you are comfortable, because you are on vacation ... However, if you want to visit the solemn events, take pictures with the captain, go to an exclusive restaurant, we advise you to bring some solemn outfits with you. The ladies are recommended evening and cocktail dresses, men - suit.

Additional costs on board and their payment
The cost of your cruise includes food on board a liner (except alcoholic and bottled drinks) in the main restaurants (Main Restaurants), 24-hour cafe (Snack and Fast Food) and a buffet (Buffet Restaurant). In exclusive restaurants (Asian, Japanese, French, Steakhouse, Italian, etc.) charges for booking a table (from 15 to $ 25 / person), after which you can eat there for free how much you want. The exceptions make up drinks and some special dishes.

Currency on board NCL liners - US dollars
The cost includes the use of the gym, pools, sauna (on some liners), the entertainment program, port fees and duties.
We recommend that you take money with you for your personal spending: shopping in the ports of entering and paying extra services on board liner (SPA, hairdresser, bar and so on). note The service fee is automatically added to some services in bars and stores on the liner (for example, the drinks in the bar is 15%, the SPA service is 18%). Since it is a norm on cruise liners, and for Russian tourists it is a little incomprehensible, please consider it immediately as + to the cost of the service. Those. Seeing the cost of the wine glass in the menu, for example, for 5 dollars, regard its real price at once as $ 5 + 15%.

1. Cashless payment of expenses on board.
During the cruise, all your additional costs (on board liner) will be credited to your card. Sea PassSince the Customs laws on the vessel does not accept payment by cash. For the convenience of calculations on board, all passengers receive the so-called credit card upon registration. Sea Pass.

What is the map SEA PASS?

Credit card on a liner (With this map, you can make purchases in stores on board the ship, purchase tickets for coastal excursions, take part in the lottery, order alcoholic beverages and cocktails in bars, pay for a visit to the cosmetic salon, hairdresser, massage room, photos, laundry and dry cleaning services. Chips and casino tokens are acquired for cash.)

Pass on liner (The map shows the name of the cruise company, the name of the ship, your surname and name, cabin, the date of your cruise, as well as the ship's phone for emergency).

Your identity card for a cruise time (The map shows your surname, name)

The key is from your cabin.

This credit card must be activated on the day of the cruise on the day, for this, you should show the card and sign on the calculated rack (Cash Deposit or Pursers Desk). After that, your name will be opened in your name, and to pay expenses you will need only to make a card and sign checks. In order to avoid misunderstandings, save checks until the end of the cruise. During the day before the end of the cruise, you will be submitted to the account with your expenses on board the liner.
You can register your credit card at your choice when landing on a liner at the beginning of the cruise. In this case, all your expenses will be charged with it automatically. At the end of the cruise you just need to verify accounts. ATTENTION ! When registering your credit card, a cruise company can automatically block the amount spent on board in a double size for reinsurance. The amount will be unlocked for 1-3 weeks after the end of your cruise (depending on the bank serving your card). We ask, take this note to avoid unpleasant situations that can be connected with it.

A map of Sea Pass Tourist is always obliged to have with him, as it is at the same time passing to the ship and a certificate of person during a cruise.

2. Tips.
All over the world, this is the norm, since 90% of serving staff complies with precisely.
The amount of tips for 1 person is about $ 13 / night (when accommodation in cabins without windows, with a window, balcony and mini-suit) and about $ 15 / night / person with accommodation in South. Tips are automatically written off your onboard account.

Services on board liner
Every evening your steward will deliver a daily bulletin to the cabin, from which you will learn about all the events of tomorrow and services rendered on board. On some liners during the Russian group on board, bulletin data is printed in Russian. If you did not bring a Russian-speaking newspaper, check for a reception desk or look at the rack (right or left of the reception, as a rule, newspapers are lying in different languages). The program indicates the operation time of restaurants, their location (number and part of the deck: FWD - nose, MID - middle, AFT - feed).

1. Coast excursions.
On the day of landing in your cabin there will be a special form - an order for coastal excursions (in English), if you wish, it is necessary to fill out and pass on the Special Rack "Shore Excursion", where you can get information about the proposed excursions in the navigation ports and purchase tickets. The cost of excursions is not included in the cost of the cruise. On the liner are offered excursions in English and sometimes (if a large number of wishes are recruited) - in other languages. Before entering the port, the director of the cruise and lecturer tell about local attractions and excursions offered on board, as well as stores and profitable shopping (see information in daily programs). Tourists who did not want to participate in excursions can independently familiarize themselves with the port of the navigation or stay on the liner.
Excursions in Russian are organized with a minimum group of tourists and form a tour operator. About the presence of Russian groups on this or that cruise, ask your travel agent.

2. Medical services.
Every company liner has on board a qualified physician and nurses that work in case of emergency need. Medical services rendered on board are charged additionally.
Some people who persistently react to the slightest vibration of the ship can take advantage of the special pills from the pointing (ask the steward or to the reception, explaining that you need "SEA-SICK PILLS").

3. Laundry and dry cleaning services.
L.nCL Ayner are equipped with laundry and dry cleaning services. You only need to fill out a blank order until 9.00 am (it is in your cabin) and together with things in the plastic package to give the steward. Your order will be executed on the same day (50% of the surcharge for urgency is usually charged) or the next day. (Price list and plastic bag for things are in the table box of your cabin).

4. Duty free shops.
On board the liners there are shops of duty-free trade, where, as a rule, goods are widely represented products of world famous brands, souvenirs with NCL symbols, tobacco products, alcoholic beverages (excluding some regions), clothing, perfumes and cosmetics, jewelry, medicines. Stores on board are open only when the liner is located in the sea in accordance with international customs rules.

Acquired alcohol is stored in the store storage chamber until the end of the cruise!

5. International telephone, telex, telex.
During the liner movement, you can use the services of international telephone (from the cabin), facsimile or alert (from the ship's radio station). During the parking lot in the port, you can use local communication systems. The cost of the international telephone call from the side of the liner on average is 15 dollars per 1 minute (check pre-).

6. Sauna, massage center, beauty salon.
On board the liner there is a sauna, a massage center and a beauty salon. Services are surcharge. If you want to use these services, we recommend pre-assigning the reception time in advance. On class liners Sun, Dawn and Jewel There is also a free sauna.

7. Services in the cabin.
In the cabin for your convenience there are non-alcoholic beverages that are paid additionally.
You can contact the guest service at any time of the day and night and order an extra pillow, blanket, snacks in the cabin and much, much more. Drinks (juice, coffee) and snacks specified in the ROOM Service menu are served in the cabin is free.

8. Radio and television in the cabin.
All cabins on NCL liners are equipped with television. Television includes satellite news channels from various countries, movies, music programs and internal television channel, showing the ship's time (it may differ from the local), air temperature telling about the program on board, goport ports, etc. We recommend to check the clock on this channel.

Restaurants and kitchens
For those who prefer diet food, the chefs will prepare dishes with a reduced fat content, which in taste quality will be the same delicious as the usual. We are also on board a vegetarian menu and baby food. It does not matter what time of day you are hungry, you will always find anything for yourself from the morning coffee before the night buffet. It offers 24-hour Room Service for free.
Passengers can have breakfast, dine and dine in a buffet restaurant at any time convenient for them (it works almost all day, with small changes). There is a 24-hour restaurant, Room Service, and two main restaurants that work at certain hours. There are also exclusive restaurants (booking table for additional pay $).

On NCL ships, only the Freestyle Dining system is used, in which passengers can choose a convenient time for them, a restaurant and a table.

Disembarking from the ship

The day before the end of the cruise is recommended start collecting things and baggage preparation (Filling and attaching luggage tags).
If you want your luggage to be delivered to the seaport terminal when disembarking from the ship by porters, you need to put it (with attached luggage tags) in the corridor until 23.00. At your request, you can also independently make your luggage.

Please do not forget to post the documents (airlows or vouchers on the hotel / transfer, if you have ordered) and the necessary medicines.
Also on the eve of the evening we recommend you check all your checks and make calculations at the reception.
If you registered your credit card, your expenses will be written off with it automatically.

Draw your attention to That tips are automatically written off from your side account or credit card in the amount of about $ 13 per person per person for living in categories to mini-suites and 15 dollars per person for living in Southey.

On the day of arrival in the port, the cruise company kindly asks you to release the cabin to 08-00 o'clock in the morning (or in another time, depending on the schedule of the arrival of the liner in the port)!

Do not forget to pick up your passport for the reception .

Luggage You will get in the port, focusing on the color of the luggage tag.

For more information, you can find in the welcome booklet NCL "Welcome ABOard".

Dear ladies and gentlemen, parking time in the carriage ports,
Specified in programs and directories can change.

Rissuly please pay attention to the departure time
before leaving the liner.

We wish you a pleasant trip!

There were no pleasure tourist liners. In fact, there are dozens of liners of different companies, about the same in size and competing with each other in luxury. In many ways, they are similar to each other. Let's at least look at the biggest one. In the course of the case and add this boat to our

Royal Caribbean International commissioned Finnish shipbuilders to build a completely new class of passenger liners who can keep the palm of championship for many years. So there was a cruise liner "Oasis of the Seas", which was laid on the water as the largest passenger ship in the world on October 28, 2009. In addition, the liner won the first place in another nomination, as the most expensive ship on the planet. 1.24 billion dollars was spent on its construction, the average cost of staying in the port of such a vessel will cost the owners of $ 2,000,000.

The new class "Genesis" chairlist "Oasis of the Seas" and the "Allure of the Seas" already under construction exceeded its predecessor "Freedom of the Seas" and steel 21 m longer, 8.5 meters wide and almost 43 percent heavier .

Passenger ships of the project "Genesis" became truly wonderful liners. It is a brave design, and a lot of innovations and technological advances in the conveniences for passengers, all this will now help attract new customers of unforgettable marine travel.

Liner "Oasis of the Seas" absorbed all the best that there is on the ships of Royal Caribbean International. Its first sailing on December 5, 2009 will be worse, including the most luxurious party in the sea. For his guests, this is an amazing sea trip, and for the cruise liner "Oasis of the Seas" is ready to withstand any threat: hurricanes, gigantic waves and even infectious diseases.

The ship was built by the shipbuilding company "STX EUROPE" specifically by order "Royal Caribbean International", the construction of the "oasis of the seas" cost £ 855 million. The length of the vessel - 361 meters, width - 66, and its highest point towers above the water surface by 72 meters . Displacement of liner - 225 thousand tons. Oasis is 40% more than any other cruise ship in the world. The vessel is five times superior in terms of "Titanic", can accommodate at sixteen decks in 2704 cabins of 6360 passengers and a 2160 crew. By the way, a new liner is 2 times more than the previous record holder - Queen Mary II.

The vessel is equipped with 6 engines manufactured by Wärtsilä - three 12-cylinder and three 16-cylinder. In the aggregate, its power plants generate a power of 96 MW, which allows the ship to develop speeds of up to 22.6 sea nodes. The new owners of the vessel were very surprised, having learned that on the "oasis" on four on-board cabins more than planned.

New safety methods and design of absolutely new features for cruises made "Oasis of the Seas" one of the most anticipated cruise liners in history. The vessel has so-called telescopic pipes that can decrease if you have to swim under the bridge. The world's largest cruise liner "Oasis Sea" had to partially disassemble so that he could pass under the Danish Bridge "Great Belte". But even after the height of the pipes was reduced, the distance between the vessel and the construction structure was less than half a meter. For security reasons, movement on the bridge was blocked for 15 minutes. Hundreds of people gathered on both sides of the river to look at a brightly lit cruise liner, which towers above the water like a 20-storey house.

Entertainment here mass, and for ordinary people, and for millionaires. The ship is equipped with a water amphitheater, a carousel (made "in full-size"), a floating fleet, an ice roller, a golf course, 4 swimming pools, for which a total of 2300 tons of water, volleyball and basketball courts, wall for climbing and a children's zone With thematic parks and children's scientific laboratories. On it, among other things, there are 10 SPA-coupled and surfing simulators. The liner is so big that it is divided into "districts" with a special theme, including a tropical zone with palm trees and wines. In total, 12 thousand plants were planted on the ship and 56 trees - this is the world's first park on a ship of 2000 square meters. M, which became a kind of analogue of the Central Park in New York. Therefore, its passengers can relax in the park in the shade of real trees, listen to Broadway musicals and see the ice show.

Open amphitheater for 750 places in the open air is located on the stern and is made according to an ancient Greek amphitheater. The closed theater, located in another part of the ship, is designed for 1300 guests. Two-week cruise on the wonderful ship "Oasis of the Seas" will cost a rather modest amount: from £ 1300 for a place in the cheapest cabin. The construction of his twin vessel called "Allure of the Seas" is scheduled to be completed at the end of 2010.

Passengers like to celebrate all the time, but if the "premium class" cruise, and almost all people are wealthy, then on board the liner should be about 20,000 bottles of champagne, more than 14,000 kg of meat products, 44,000 fresh eggs, 6600 kg of salad, 3000 kg of bow, 22000 kg potatoes and this is only a small part of the food stock.

After the end of the loading, the cruise liner "Oasis of the Seas" goes to the first cruise swimming. And if you forgot, then alas, it's too late to correct errors. The liner left the Everglades port and the cruise began.

Oasis of the Seas cruise liners are hoping to avoid natural catastrophes of another type. If at least two people with viral disease passed on board the vessel, it will spread instantly, since everyone is in a closed space. The liner is equipped with disinfectants in all public places, especially before meals.

Liner cruises are usually a guarantee of first-class nutrition 24 hours a day. Especially during the festive cruises, when his staff arranges a real feast on board the liner. Restaurants serve the most sophisticated dishes.

A waste disposal is the most important part of the ship's internal device. On the "Oasis of the Seas" liner there is a waste waste recycling plant, where the whole garbage is carefully sorted. Tin jars are pressed, the glass is broken to prepare for processing, as well as all other solid waste are stored until they are thrown into a landfill in the nearest port, because the "Oasis of the Seas" cruise liner is an ecologically clean ship.

On board the vessel work over three hundred kokov. It is on a galley that are products that cost $ 2 million. Because of the strict rules of hygiene on the galley, the entrance to everything other than registered employees is prohibited. About 70,000 main dishes are served daily on the ship, of which 15000 desserts.

For all entertainment during the cruise, the director of the cruise is responsible. The most difficult part of his work: everything is done so that guests remain satisfied. He plans entertainment, communicates with guests and supports their good mood. On board there is own film studio. Her staff remove the daily material on board the liner, and then after mounting broadcast to the cabins, as a rule, in the evening.

A no less awesome place on the "Oasis of the Seas" cruise liner is considered "Royal Promenade", which is held in the center of the vessel. Here is a unique transparent illumination elevator. This place is concentrated so many stores and bars that it looks like a small town. On board the cruise liner "Oasis of the Seas" you can find a lot of entertainment.

Traditionally, the upper deck has a pool with an artificial wave. Its pumps are pumped to 112,000 liters of water per minute.

One of the most popular activities on the liner is a theater that accommodates about 2,000 people. The show on ice also collects a lot of viewers. So that everything went without falls, engineers include a vessel stabilization system.

February 24, 2010. - ROYAL CARRIBEAN has realized that the idea of \u200b\u200btracking one person to others can like many, and turned out to be right, the novelty quickly became very popular

At the largest cruise liner in the world of Oasis of the seas, the company Royal Carribean offers a novelty of IT technologies, bracelets identifiers and iPhone mobile phones so that people can find each other in countless giant liner premises. Bracelets are personal RFID personal radio frequency identifiers, although it may be not only bracelets, but also badges or clips. WiFi acts throughout the ship, the signal from the bracelet through WiFi goes to the Apple iPhone mobile phone, equipped with a detailed liner scheme, that is, at any time one person can know exactly where the other is located.

On the vessel, almost 1000 places where you can go to WiFi, and at first the company just wanted to do so that people could communicate with each other through mobile phones and not only communicate, through ship iPhone you can get one or other information, order a service, etc. n., But then realized that the idea of \u200b\u200btracking one person to others can like many, and turned out to be right, the novelty quickly became very popular. It is easy to guess that parents became the main consumers of identifiers. The liner is incredibly huge, there are plenty of places where the child can be lost, and this can be a problem not only for parents, but also for the entire crew, the search for a lost person on the ship is a nominous and extremely difficult operation, the public Avral, and preferably at this time All other passengers drive into cabins or public premises.

First, the Oasis of the Seas as an identifier was offered a betray, but then went further, and now offer bracelets, which is much more convenient, as they can serve as a kind of pagers. If you serve a signal from the iPhone, the bracelet begins to vibrate, and its owner will understand what they are looking for it. If this is a child, then okay, but teenagers such an IT surveillance can hardly like it. The young man met a disco with a girl and retired with her in place darling and puzzling, good on a gigantic liner of such places with excess, and the damned bracelets will suddenly begin to vibrate, what is it? But what grace parents ...

The device runs on the basis of the location location system in real-time RTLS company Ekahau, the signal from the identifier is processed by the Defi Royal Connect program and is issued to the destination server, and from there already falls on the iPhone, location accuracy is 3-3.5 meters. Bracelets work from rechargeable batteries, for a weekly charging cruise enough with excess. After the cruise is completed, the bracelets are surrendered by the administration and are charged again. Reviews, they say in Royal Carribean, while very good, but how and where it is possible to use this novelty, in addition to the surveillance, they do not yet know the data. During cruises, the electronic spy users are polled, and hope that the collected information will allow you to expand the scope of application Wi-Fi RFID identifiers.
Voitenko Mikhail

Some numbers:

5000 kilometers of electrical wiring

12,000 plants, among them and real trees, but plants will be installed and planted later, upon arrival of the liner in the US

7000 works of art will decorate the indoors of the liner or demonstrate in the halls of 90,000 square meters of carpet floors

525,000 square meters of steel - an area equivalent to 72 football fields left for the construction of a liner - Square

Do you know that ...

Screws for this giant will produce the Russian factory - OJSC Baltic Plant

Baltic Plant OJSC completed the manufacture of the first propeller designed for the world's largest ocean cruise liner in the world. A loader of 360 meters long is building a Norwegian company Aker Yards on his shipyard in Finland. The Baltic plant will equip a liner with two screws. The diameter of each product is more than 6 meters.
Contracts for the manufacture of screws for cruise liners Genesis, Super Star Libra, Celebrity and Hall, built at Finnish shipyard, OJSC Baltic Plant (St. Petersburg) and FSUE "Star" (Severodvinsk) concluded in 2007. According to the terms of the agreements, the St. Petersburg enterprise will put several dozen sets of blades, hubs and fairings, as well as zip kits for screws by the end of this year. The cost of contracts is more than 10 million euros.

The Baltic Plant is the only manufacturer of large rowing screws in Russia (weighing up to 70t., Diameter - up to 8m.) From bronze and brass. The company manufactures modern screws for all types of warships and submarines; large tankers and balkers; atomic and diesel-electric icebreakers; container ships and passenger ships; Small coastal, river and pleasure ships; Sports ships and boats.

In one of the evenings, the captain liner gives him a dinner to guests. Cruise recreation participants adore official events. Each of them tries to bring home the memory of the sea travel. For this, several professional photographers work on board the vessel. About 30,000 photos will be made per cruise.

Charm of anyone cruise travel It is that in the ports where the liner stops, passengers are waiting for the mass of new sensations.

On the liner, everything is done for customers, but passengers always come across, which do badly behave and interfere with others. Such people ask to leave the ship in the nearest port. But the worst thing is when some passenger dies on board. Then the whole team has to console his close people. The body is placed in their own morgue.

Crew members and service personnel are full of life, but fully isolated from guests. They are not allowed to use the main passages on board the liner without much need. All staff moves along a hidden system of service corridors and stairs. To do this, in the center of this labyrinth is the main passage, which goes along the entire length of the ship. He has an unofficial name E-95, on it members of the crew get to their cabins, where they can relax from guests. Laundry on such a ship is one of the most twisted among all types of ships. Workers of this plant work around the clock.

In nightclubs liner« Oasis of the seas»Your work is greatly performed by DJs. While they warm up the public, night falls on the ship and then most of 750000 lamps light up on the ship. Electricity on the cruise liner is produced by diesel generators made to order by the company " Wartsilla.».

The most protected room on the cruise liner engineering office. From here, they follow the weather atmosphere, control the operation of the power plant and manage all the vessel systems. This is the power center on the passenger ship, so the entrance is strictly prohibited.

On the liner« Oasis of the seas»4500 km of electric cable were laid, so for the ship engineers the main thing is not bad weather, but a fire. Such linerconsumes an average of up to 11,000 kg of fuel per hour. Suddenly arose spark anywhere in a much more dangerous hurricane. Operational expenses are huge - even a minor deviation from the course may pour into a considerable amount.

During the weather and the impossibility is safe to go to the port, the court captain can give an order not to enter the port, and the director of the cruise immediately announces the changed plans to passengers. This adds work to the entertainment service, as everyone stays on board.

A cruise ship« Oasis of the seas"Began the first passenger ship in the world, on board which seven independent thematic areas are concentrated Central Park, Boardwalk, Royal Promenade, Pool and Sports Zone, Vitality Sea Spa and Fitness Center, Entertainment Place and Youth Zone, Therefore, no one is sad.

The central park is located in the open air in the center of the ship and forms a public place with sidewalks, flowers and trees. Its platforms are for walking in the fresh air, street ideas and concerts. Above the surroundings of the park stretch in the height of the five-story house 334 cabins, 254 of which have balconies that come out in the park. The central park has a range of boutiques, a garden, a variety of arbors, a sculpture park, cafes, restaurants and a wine bar.

Despite the dimensions linerSome passengers suffer from sea disease. Although all staff retains a calm view, some have to solve many problems on board: from natural disasters to crime. For this case, the security service is taken in civilian clothes. At their disposal video surveillance cameras and the owner's own law enforcement agencies.

In case of evacuation on cruise linerthere is a modern system of rescue bots, as well as inflatable rescue rafts that are located in the strategic points of the ship. Solving security and security issues, guests' requirement. Even on such liners as " Oasis of the seas»With an excellent organization, people can sometimes be lost. Often they are late in ports, so on the liner always remind that the ship is sent exactly on the schedule.

The liner is a huge selection of cabins, which include luxury rooms and family rooms. 25 were 25 duplex numbers with balconies. Each of them covers an area of \u200b\u200b1524 square meters. m and designed for six people. The room has its own piano, bar, jacuzzi and library. Square of the balcony of 78 square meters. meters. All cabins are equipped with LCD TVs, bathrooms with many mirrors.

Length - 361 m;
Width - 66 m;
Height - 72 m;
Displacement - 225282 tons;
Power point- eight diesel engines " Wartsila»A capacity of 17500 hp each;
Driving installation- Three steering columns like "Azipod" with a capacity of 27,200 hp;
Speed \u200b\u200b- 22.6 knots;
Number of decks - 16;
The number of passengers is 6360 people;
The number of cabins - 2704;
Crew - 2100 people;

Here we can see the construction process