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Related: About this forumWorld's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage
This article is based on an account in the Daily Mail, so maybe some parts are true, and maybe not.
Boatlopnik
World's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage
It may have cost around $1.4 billion to built, but the Global Dream II is destined to be trash.
By Andy Kalmowitz | Yesterday 4:00PM
The ship that would have become the worlds largest cruise liner has been scrapped before it ever had the chance to take its maiden voyage. ... If wasting wild amounts of resources and money is your type of thing, this is the story for you.
Global Dream II was slated to carry 9,000 passengers and was built by German-Hong Kong shipbuilding firm MV Werften to the tune of nearly $1.4 billion, according to the Daily Mail. It was nearly finished when the company went bankrupt at the start of this year.
Since that happened, no buyer has stepped up to buy the 20-deck, 1,122-foot-long monstrosity. That means its now destined for the scrap heap. The Mail says that Global Dream II also features an outdoor waterpark and a movie theater. Man, I really dont get cruises.
The capacity of this ship blows the second largest ship, the Oasis-class Wonder of the Sea which is owned and operated by Royal Caribbean, out of the water (I love a good pun). The Wonder of the Seas has a passenger capacity of only 6,988. Pathetic.
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World's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage
It may have cost around $1.4 billion to built, but the Global Dream II is destined to be trash.
By Andy Kalmowitz | Yesterday 4:00PM
The ship that would have become the worlds largest cruise liner has been scrapped before it ever had the chance to take its maiden voyage. ... If wasting wild amounts of resources and money is your type of thing, this is the story for you.
Global Dream II was slated to carry 9,000 passengers and was built by German-Hong Kong shipbuilding firm MV Werften to the tune of nearly $1.4 billion, according to the Daily Mail. It was nearly finished when the company went bankrupt at the start of this year.
Since that happened, no buyer has stepped up to buy the 20-deck, 1,122-foot-long monstrosity. That means its now destined for the scrap heap. The Mail says that Global Dream II also features an outdoor waterpark and a movie theater. Man, I really dont get cruises.
The capacity of this ship blows the second largest ship, the Oasis-class Wonder of the Sea which is owned and operated by Royal Caribbean, out of the water (I love a good pun). The Wonder of the Seas has a passenger capacity of only 6,988. Pathetic.
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World's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Sep 2022
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Ocelot II
(115,924 posts)1. Going on a cruise with 9,000 other people is not my idea of a dream vacation.
HUAJIAO
(2,406 posts)2. Good ! Monster cruise ships suck...
essaynnc
(802 posts)3. Send it to a large city to house the homeless?
I'm sure you could get a good deal....
Botany
(70,627 posts)4. I don't get it. One look @ that ship has a "that would be a no from me" answer.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,691 posts)5. That's Genting Dream. It displaces only 151,000 tons.
Genting Dream
Tonnage: 150,695 GT
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History
Genting Dream was ordered as Genting World in October 2013 for Star Cruises. Construction began on 9 February 2015. In November 2015, she was transferred to sister brand Dream Cruises and on 19 August 2016 she was floated out of dry dock.
Tonnage: 150,695 GT
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History
Genting Dream was ordered as Genting World in October 2013 for Star Cruises. Construction began on 9 February 2015. In November 2015, she was transferred to sister brand Dream Cruises and on 19 August 2016 she was floated out of dry dock.
Global Dream II displaces 208,000 tons.
sanatanadharma
(3,743 posts)6. Turn it into a high-rise apartment building, dry-docked somewhere
Most likely it would become high-society city rather than a homeless sea-side succor.
Mopar151
(10,004 posts)9. Send it to Havana, for tourist accommodations
While rebuilding the onshore infrastructure.
GreenWave
(6,790 posts)7. Why not invite all the main Federalist Society elite and appointees
To tour the Antarctic and laugh up close how it is melting? I got a good feeling Karma is waiting.