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I’m going on a cruise in a few weeks and trying to budget my trip. Does anybody know how much royal caribbean charges for photos?

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Cruise lines are one of the biggest and fastest trend in tourism. The demand for new cruise ships has been increasing rapidly as more tourists prefer relaxing while on cruise and the need for cruise line employees are growing as well to provide better and faster services to the passengers.

Here are a few details about new cruise ships to be launched in 2009 along with some information on how many crew ship positions would be available.

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines

Ship: Oasis of the sea

Launch Date: November 2009

Tour: Caribbean

Passengers: 6400

Cruise Crew Needed: 1650

Description: Includes an AquaTheater, two climbing walls and the first on board zip line and carousel, Oasis of the Seas will be the worlds largest ship.

Carnival Cruise Lines

Ship: Carnival Dream

Launch Date: September 21, 2009

Tour: Mediterranean, Caribbean

Passengers: 3646

Cruise Crew Needed: 1367

Description: A completely new design for Carnival and will be the largest Carnival Ship. Ensuring passenger comfort and best cruise experience as cruise ship crew ratio to passenger will be one for every 2.6 passenger.

Celebrity Cruises

Ship: Celebrity Equinox

Launch Date: Summer, 2009

Tour: North Europe, Mediterranean, Caribbean

Passengers: 2850

Cruise Crew Needed: 1500

Description: Offers a more spacious cabins than Celebrity ships, improvement in luxury and comfort is promised as one crew would be attending to passengers with a ratio of 1 crew for 2 passenger.

Silversea Cruises

Ship: Silver Spirit

Launch Date: December 2009

Tour: Worldwide

Passengers: 540

Cruise Crew Needed: 410

Description: Currently under construction at Fincantieri’s Ancona shipyard in Italy will become the company’s largest luxury vessel on its launch sometime December 2009.

Pearl Seas Cruises

Ship: Ship Unnamed

Launch Date: June 2009

Tour: Europe and Caribbean

Passengers: 210

Cruise Crew Needed: 135

Description: Second new build ship from new cruise company.

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Ship: Seabourn Odyssey

Launch Date: June 2009

Tour: Worldwide

Passengers: 450

Cruise Crew Needed: 330

Description: With a size in GRT (Gross Register Tonnage) of 32,000, this new build ship is larger by standard of the Seabourn company. Even though more passengers would be accommodated, the same ratio will be the same for the crew to guest as it will still be one crew for every 1.5 guests.

Viking River Cruise

Ship: Viking Legend

Launch Date: May 2009

Tour: Grand European Tour

Passengers: 189

Cruise Crew Needed: 50

Description: Cruising along The Rhine, Main and Danube rivers as it sails from Amsterdam to Budapest, Viking Legend will be the longest in the Viking River Cruise fleet and one of the most state of the art river vessels.

AIDA Cruises

Ship: AIDAluna

Launch Date: April 2009

Tour: Europe

Passengers: 2050

Cruise Crew Needed: 1100

Description: Second new build from AIDA Cruises

Costa Cruises

Ship: Costa Luminosa

Launch Date: May 2009

Tour: Mediterranean, Arctic, North Europe, Atlantic Islands

Passengers: 2850

Cruise Crew Needed: 1500

Description: Although most cruise lines are devoted in making their vessels bigger, Costa Luminosa would be a new and smaller ship but will be better in contemporary design using technology to provide light and color effects on board.

Ship: Costa Pacifica

Launch Date: June 2009

Tour: Mediterranean

Passengers: 3780

Cruise Crew Needed: 1000

Description: One of the largest new Costa Cruises ships giving a ratio of one crew for every 2.8 passengers for better service.

Pearl Seas Cruises

Ship: Pearl Mist

Launch Date: First Quarter 2009

Tour: Canda, USA, Caribbean

Passengers: 210

Description: First cruise ship from new luxury line Pear Seas

MCS Cruises

Ship: Splendida

Launch Date: June 2009

Tour: Mediterranean

Passengers: 3300

Cruise Crew Needed: 1325

Description: One of MSC’s largest ships will offer a ratio of one crew to every 2.5 passengers.

With the addition of these twelve cruise ships to roam the oceans and seas, an estimated of 9500 to 10000 cruise ship jobs would be available before the ships delivers on its set date of launch.



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