Greetings WCrusader,
Yes I am inclined to agree that the older ships as we old timers know about are the best but having said that there is something grand about these new cruise ships.
I took my wife on a cruise out Miami some years ago to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary it was on the "SS Carnivale" nothing like the monsters we have today the reason being it was the old "Empress of Britain" one of our grand old ships of yester year, no doubt scrapped by now.
When on board it felt good that first of all I hadn't go down below to start my watch & secondly it was a nice feeling that I was sailing on what was once part of our Maritime History.
I watched on Mega Structures a few weeks back the building of the "Freedom Of The Seas" what a monster although I have been in Engineering all my life it still amazes me as to how they know where to start designing & building these floating cities.
Best wishes,
John Aspin (R685343) Ormesby-Middlesbrough