} Styles of Ships
} Sizing Ships
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} The Ocean liner
} The Contemporary cruise ship
} Small ships
} Masted sailing ships
} River vessels
} Barges
} Ferries
} Multipurpose ships
} Miscellaneous
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} Small ships – smaller
vessels, most of which can
accommodate fewer than
300 passengers.
} Masted sailing ships –
almost entirely powered by
the wind.
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} Ship facilities
} Cruise staterooms
} Reading a Deck Plan
} Classify ships according to their style and how
ship size and space are measured
} Identify and explain the facilities of cruise vessels
and interpret a deck plan
} The Ocean liner –
primarily used for
transatlantic crossings or
world voyages and mostly
built before 1970
} The Contemporary
cruise ship – built to
accommodate uniformly
sized staterooms and
numerous activity venues
built in the late 1980’s.
} River vessels – Two kinds
of vessels carry
passengers along the great
rivers of the world
(modern-style ships and
modeled after the great
steamboats of the 19th
century).
} Barges – are a flat-
bottomed boat, built mainly
for river and canal
transport of heavy goods.
 } Ferries – is a boat or ship used to
carry (or ferry) primarily
passengers, and sometimes
vehicles and cargo as well,
across a body of water.
} Multipurpose ships – carry
different classes of cargo,
transport passengers between
close-by villages.
} Miscellaneous – Yacht, bare
boat charter, houseboats
How does the cruise industry measure its
ships?
} Number of Staterooms
} How many passengers (guests) the ship
accommodates
} Gross registered tonnage – is determined by a
formula that gauges the volume of the public
spaces on a ship.

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ü Classification of Cruise Ships

Size Gross Registered Passenger/Pax
Tonnage Capacity
Very Small Under 10,000 Not exceeding 200
pax

Small 10,000 – 20,000 200-500 pax

Medium 20,000 – 50,000 500-1,200 pax
Large 50,000 – 70,000 1,200-2,000 pax
Megaship More than 70,000 More than 2,000
pax

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ü What are the benefits of each?

Larger Ships
qOffer many more facilities,
activities, choices and options
qAre often more dramatic-
looking
qAre able to serve a wider
spectrum of guest types
qEasily accommodate
groups
qAre generally quite stable in
the water
Smaller Ships
qOffer a more intimate
atmosphere
q Can sail into smaller places
qPermit easier embarkation
and debarkation
qMake it simple for
passengers to get to know the
ship and others onboard

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 Public Space:
1. Stateroom – outside
stateroom, inside 1. The reception area – purser’s office,
stateroom and suite room front desk, hotel desk, reception
2. Private (Crew) space –
desk/information desk is located.
crew cabins, dining areas,
recreational facilities,
bridge, galley/kitchen,
mechanical areas
3. Public space – are those
where passengers can
mingle.

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Public Space: Public Space:

2. The dining room – Guests eat dinner 3. Alternate dining areas – Informal, buffet-
here, and, often, also breakfast and like dining usually takes place on the pool
lunch. deck for some all meals. Guests can dine
indoors or outdoors (al fresco dining).

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Public Space: Public Space:

4. The showroom – Entertainment events usually
take place here each night. During the day, the
showroom may host orientation meetings, port
lectures, games, movies, or other special
events.
5. The pool area – The majority of ships today
have one or more swimming pools, perhaps
with hot tubs nearby - located on upper deck.

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 Public Space:
6. The health club – adjoins a spa that offers
massages, facials, saunas, whirlpools,
aromatherapy, and other beauty/relaxation-
related services.
Public Space:
7. The children’s area – Facilities for children –
supervised by specially trained staff – have
therefore become common.

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Public Space: Public Space:

8. The gift shop – it’s just a little store where you 9. The medical facility – Maritime law requires
can buy sundries. any vessel that carries more than 100
passengers to have a physician onboard, often
assisted by one or more nurses.

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Public Space: Public Space:

10. The movie theater – Many ships feature 11. The photo gallery – Passengers can
screenings of recent movies in a theater. purchase the ones they like for a reasonable
price. Passengers can drop off their own film or
memory cards for developing here too.

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 Public Space:
12. The art auction gallery – This area exhibits
paintings and other fine art that will be sold
during the cruise.
Public Space:
13. The casino – Because gambling is usually
legal on ships, most cruise vessels boast
casinos where clients can play blackjack,
roulette, slot machines and other games.

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Public Space:
} Stateroom – also called a cabin – is to a ship
14. The Internet center – for a time-based fee,
what a guest room is to a hotel.
passengers can send and receive e-mail and
} Are usually extremely compact “hotel rooms in
surf the Web.
miniature”.
} Average hotel room in America is about 350 to
450 square feet – some staterooms are as small
as 100 square feet, and few exceed 250 square
feet.
} 3 types of staterooms: outside staterooms, inside
staterooms, and suites

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Outside staterooms Inside staterooms

} Also called ocean-view staterooms } Are in the ship’s interior

} Have windows } They have no windows

} Least expensive
} Is only a place to sleep

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Suites
} Are the most expensive
} Some vessels have only a few
} Feature a living room, a sleeping room, and a
bathroom
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} Ship plan usually consists of two elements:
1. The deck plan (or floor plan)
2. Cross-section on the ship, with each layer
shown (only those decks that are public are
indicated)
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Here’s what you find in a typical stateroom:
} Two single lower beds, either parallel to each other or at right angles, double,
queen/even king-size beds, upper beds (can accommodate 3 or 4 passengers).
} A bed stand between the beds or on each side
} A vanity, often with a chair, along with built-in drawers, cabinets, and the like.
} A closet, perhaps with multiple levels and storage places
} A television that feeds live/repeated broadcasts of shipboard events, movies,
port talks, and satellite transmission of regular TV programming
} Extensive lighting, wall-to-wall carpeting, and everything else you’d associate
with a hotel
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Here are a few things you need to know about
ship’s plans:
} Deck plans are important
} In brochures and web sites, color coding makes a
deck plan easy to read
} Usually, the higher the deck is on the ship, the
higher the category and price
} Deck plans often note certain special stateroom
circumstances
} Deck plans are also posted aboard ship
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