This week, Beyondships focuses on Celebrity Mercury. When she entered service in 1997, Mercury was considered a large ship. Since then ships have become increasingly bigger and thus Mercury is now on the smaller size of the large ship category. While
First, some people do not feel comfortable on a mega-cruise ship. A ship like Mercury is appealing to those people because she has a more intimate feel. Also, I have noticed that the crews of these smaller ships try especially hard to please perhaps in order to make up for the fact that they do not have all of the features that their bigger fleetmates have.
Second, ships like Mercury can get into ports that some of the bigger ships cannot. For example, Mercury has only a few feet of clearance going under some of the bridges that she must pass under in order to get to Baltimore, Maryland. A significantly larger ship could not pass under those bridges. Thus, in order to serve a port such as Baltimore, a cruise line needs a ship the size of Mercury. Since there are a lot of people who would much rather drive to a local port such as Baltimore rather than fly a thousand miles or so to take a cruise, such a ship allows the line to meet the demands of the market.
Mercury in particular is a pretty ship. She has a nice understated décor. Also, as alluded to her earlier, she has a very friendly crew.
Beyondships’ profile of Celebrity mercury is at http://www.beyondships.com/Celebrity-Mercury-Profile.html and the multi-page photo tour begins at http://www.beyondships.com/Celebrity-Mercury-Tour-1.html
First, some people do not feel comfortable on a mega-cruise ship. A ship like Mercury is appealing to those people because she has a more intimate feel. Also, I have noticed that the crews of these smaller ships try especially hard to please perhaps in order to make up for the fact that they do not have all of the features that their bigger fleetmates have.
Second, ships like Mercury can get into ports that some of the bigger ships cannot. For example, Mercury has only a few feet of clearance going under some of the bridges that she must pass under in order to get to Baltimore, Maryland. A significantly larger ship could not pass under those bridges. Thus, in order to serve a port such as Baltimore, a cruise line needs a ship the size of Mercury. Since there are a lot of people who would much rather drive to a local port such as Baltimore rather than fly a thousand miles or so to take a cruise, such a ship allows the line to meet the demands of the market.
Mercury in particular is a pretty ship. She has a nice understated décor. Also, as alluded to her earlier, she has a very friendly crew.
Beyondships’ profile of Celebrity mercury is at http://www.beyondships.com/Celebrity-Mercury-Profile.html and the multi-page photo tour begins at http://www.beyondships.com/Celebrity-Mercury-Tour-1.html
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