Thread: Peep this! New Largest Cruise Ship!

Mind the gap! The world's biggest cruise ship squeezes out of dock and sets sail

By Eddie Wrenn
Last updated at 7:44 AM on 29th September 2008


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It might be time for the phrase: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat' to enter retirement.
For this mighty vessel, the largest ever passenger ship, dwarfs all that stands next to it, making the thousands of spectators which came to see it's launch look little more than ants as they waved the graceful ship out of the port.
The 315m-long ship is so wide it barely squeezed out of the Papenberg watergates, but ably helped by two tug-boats it escaped on it's to the North sea, where it will head to Denmark.



She is one of five Solstice ships launching between now and 2012, and can carry nearly 3,000 passengers.
And, after thousands of years, landlubbers might be able to escape their phobia of the sea... This cruiser is the first one to boast an authentic grass lawn on its top deck.



The ship is 'virtually complete' - 98 per cent, to be exact - and is on track for it's November debut, when it will begin life as a U.S. cruise ship.




WOW!

where are the interior pics?

Shotgun!

Damn that thing is huge!! I wanna see all the amenities

Found a couple.

My parents have a suite on that ship for 2 weeks in Jan.

justs wow! makes the other ships look like Hondas to Ferraris

L4P Cruise anyone???

I am in. L4P cruise4TW

damn, thats freaking huge! wonder what the rates are...