Observations...

04/30/04

We really experienced the difference between our ship and other ships when we docked in port. It Puerto Rico we were docked next to the Royal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas. That ship is a monster. From the upper deck of our ship we still were looking up four decks to the top of the Navigator.

More interesting was looking at the Carnival Glory which we encountered at St. Martin. We were able to actually see the difference between the widths of the two ships when we went on-shore. The Glory is a big ship as this picture shows, but what was more interesting was the demographics of the ships. We had a total of 44 kids who could be in the children's programs. The Glory had over 10 times that number. When we spoke to a crewmember on the Glory we were informed that the previous week there were over 2000 kids on the Glory.

From our top deck I took a picture of the side of the Glory. While I could have backed off and taken a picture of more of the ship, I decided to take a slightly zoomed in picture of the balconies. There were five floors of balcony suites going the length of the ship. Impressive and quite interesting looking until you realize the number of rooms (and kids!) that represents.

When we got back on board our ship after a busy day ashore, we were greeted by a crewmember handing out cold towels for us. Passengers on the Glory received a personal greeting from Fun Ship Freddy. I was negligent about getting Freddy's picture but I have extracted a picture taken by another cruiser.
	Boarding the two ships was a bit different also. As these pictures show, there were several boarding ramps into the Glory, in part a necessity due to the number of people the ship holds. We only had one ramp for boarding. Also note the golf cart at the Century. It was used to haul people back to the ship who were too tired to walk!
I was not allowed to photograph the boarding area of the Century so no pictures of the crewmember giving out towels. I did get a picture of the boarding area when it was not being used (we were at sea at the time and the area was closed up). The new electronic scan devices are interesting. When we first boarded, a picture was taken of us. subsequent boardings we scanned our card and our picture was displayed to the crewmember behind the security device. Cruise ships are not as bad as airports, thankgoodness!

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