New ships carbon copies of existing ones
Almost all of the new ships launching next year are copies of ships already at sea, says CruiseCritic.com.
“So the buzz and excitement over anything new and daring could be as stale as yesterday’s room service croissant,” says the site.
The smallest new-build launching in 2007 is still large, the 2,014 Queen Victoria by Cunard. The largest is the 3,634-passenger Royal Caribbean’s Liberty of the Seas.
“Even though the luxury sector (Regent, Seven Seas Cruises, Silversea, Crystal and Seabourn) is enjoying unprecedented growth in passenger bookings, we still haven’t heard a peep from them regarding new-builds,” the report said.
This year was a viewed by the site as a “middling” one in terms of new ship launches.
Report by David Wilkening
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