32 - Sunday, July 13, 1997 —- North Shore News

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Big is better when cruising

From page 34

including a ShipShape fitness
centre with wondertil relay-
ation room, two pools, three
lounges, a theatre, and RCI's
renowned FantaSEAS teen
centre,

As for the food, well it was

food) is the space, because
decks are so vase it is possible
to lose yourself with a book,

And that's another thing
the library has shelves of new

check out the activities on books. And there's more,

first class, and served with flair
by a merry band of waiters
who gave us singing send-
off, wine,

Vhat’s not the end of the
story, RCD's Project Eagle
stares inthe fall of 1999 with

delivery of the first of three
vessels of 130,000 tons each
capable of carrying 3,100 pas-
scrigers,

Sadly they are too big for
the Panama Canal so we won't
be seeing them in Vancouver,

every deck, There are 1,000
cabins, 14 configured for the
physically challenged. All beds
can be made up as owin or
queen-size, and on my cruise
Qvhen the wind blew hard and
large waves rolled by with
frothing, white-caps) the vessel
“Was so seackindly you'd swear
yout were sleeping ina luxury
shoreside hotel. Well, it did
creak a little, but that might
have been an engineered
sound effect to remind passen-
gers they were in fact at sea.
The Rhapsody can accom:
modate 2,435 with every bed
taken but 2,000 is more tike
the normal complement. A
crew of 765, headed by
Norwegian officers, runs the
ship, which can tramp along at
22 knots — that’s about 25
m.p.h. and it makes Rhapsody
* one of the fastest passenger
vessels afloat.
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