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Royal
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SOME SHIPS feel right.
Panagopoulos, founder of Roval
yssey, a 460-passenger vessel Wi n rt
especially built for the North is a
It is no coincidence that the
This highly successful ship is
cruises, and she'll be here again
built the 1,052-passenger Crown
Cruise Line added a pre-inaugural TRAVEL TIPS

built her knew what she was doing.

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ched in 1974 with the Golden Od- avi
American air/sea market in
Europe.
ship’s capacity is the same as that
of a Boeing 747.
currently based in Vancouver for
a summer season of Alaska
on June 12,

Three years ago Panagopoulos
Odyssey, whose inaugural cruise
was so over-subscribed that Royal
sailing.

Since then both vessels have

ruise Line vessels
sail at capacity

5 They are more likely to be
Clyde-built ex-Cunarders than something sleekly new, but
every so often one comes by that suggests the man who

because there had been a war on

sailed at capacity. In fact the only and a number of nervous Ameri-

reason your agert got on board cans cancelled their reservations.
(In Europe they think Amieri-

the Crown Odyssey in the

Mediterranean recently was cans don’t know much about ge-

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ography, and they might be right
if an incident on the Crown Gdys-
sey is typical. Two women were
looking at the ship's map of the
Mediterranean and one was saying
to the other: ‘‘The yellow bits are
land, and the white bits are sea.”
Her friend hesitated for long
enough and said: ‘‘Oh, ! get it.’’)

We could digress at length
about the things passengers say.
Some get on board without a clue
where the ship is going. Others ply
cruise director Alan Lloyd with
questions like ‘‘When is the mid-
night buffet?’’ and ‘Does the
crew sleep on board?”’

But let’s be fair. They were
there; they were not sitting on
rocking chairs in West Vancouver
or San Antonio counting their
money. Certainly not the 400
souls who turned cut for 12 days
from Venice to Lisbon, and not
the Vancouver-area travel agents
escorted by Royal Cruise Line’s
Western Canada sales manager

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