Monument to Profligate Waste Heads to Sea

Posted by Mark Noonan in Economy on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:22am with 4 responses.
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Geesh:

Company officials are banking that its novelty will help guarantee its success. Five times larger than the Titanic, the $1.5 billion ship has seven neighborhoods, an ice rink, a small golf course and a 750-seat outdoor amphitheater. It has 2,700 cabins and can accommodate 6,300 passengers and 2,100 crew members.

Accommodations include loft cabins, with floor-to-ceiling windows, and 1,600-square-foot (487-meter) luxury suites with balconies overlooking the sea or promenades.

The liner also has four swimming pools, volleyball and basketball courts, and a youth zone with theme parks and nurseries for children.

Oasis of the Sea, nearly 40 percent larger than the industry’s next-biggest ship, was conceived years before the economic downturn caused desperate cruise lines to slash prices to fill vacant berths.

Well, it might make a great troop ship if we ever had to go to war with China…other than that, I can’t see them filling the rooms unless a week starts to cost $250 a person, or some such. And, hey, I like cruises…but who had two or three thousand dollars to spend on a week’s vacation these days?

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Mark Noonan is co-author (with Matt Margolis) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at Nevada News and Views. Follow Mark on Twitter.

4 Responses to “Monument to Profligate Waste Heads to Sea”

  1. Sergei Andropov says:
    November 2, 2009 at 2:56 pm

    They’re planning on rebuilding civilization after the icecaps melt.

  2. ricorun says:
    November 2, 2009 at 4:14 pm

    Following upon what SA said, perhaps the Oasis of the Sea would find it profitable to be the first absurdly large luxury liner to navigate the Northwest Passage. LMAO! I’m sorry, but that idea really tickles my funnybone.

  3. William Teach says:
    November 2, 2009 at 10:26 pm

    Why am I getting flashbacks to the movie “Deep Rising?”

    The monsters would probably be blamed on global warming, of course.

  4. tiredoflibbs says:
    November 3, 2009 at 7:14 am

    Deep Rising?

    It isn’t water that’s rising, get out your hip boots!