Q&A Show: Cruise Ship Tonnage, Caribbean Islands, Ship Bans, and Global Cruising | CRR 057

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2020

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Cruise expert Stewart Chiron drops by the answer some listener questions. Matt Hochberg from Royal Caribbean Blog answer questions on Royal Caribbeans "Lift and Shift" program and the difference between a Quantum and Quantum Ultra class ship.

1. When a ship is said to be 130,000-tons, what does that mean?

2. We are seeing cruise lines like Princess move a lot of inventory on the West Coast in the coming years -- could that be a sign of what's to come with so many Caribbean islands having different protocols post-Pandemic?

3. What's up with all the Fantasy-class ships leaving the fleet? A lot of use cruisers, myself included, love the smaller 2,000 passenger vessels. Do you think it has to do with them not having aft balconies?

4. Do ships that sail in China have the same rules as the US and the Jones Act? Does the ship or at least part of the ship need to be built in China in order to sail throughout the country?

5. When we see cities like Key West fighting the cruise lines to limit capacity and ship size, is that a vocal minority or does Key West really not place any value on us cruise passengers? It is offensive, given my family spend over $1000 there in February on a half-day fishing charter and jet skis.

Date: July 19, 2020

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0:00.0	You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind. Real reviews from real cruisers.
0:08.4	Welcome to this weekend's episode of Cruise Radio Rewind. Today's show, Matt Hodgeberg from
0:13.3	Royal Caribbean blog.com, answers a couple of questions. One about their whole refund future cruise
0:19.9	credit, cruise with confidence policy.
0:22.6	Also, what's the difference between a quantum class and a quantum ultra-class ship?
0:28.3	Matt will drop by to tackle those two questions in just a little bit.
0:32.3	And cruise expert Stuart Shiran from cruise guy.com is here to answer a few of your listener questions.
0:38.3	You could always send your questions in via email or voice memo to Doug at cruiseradio.net.
0:43.7	We'll jump right to Stuart. Hey, man.
0:45.6	Hey, Doug. How you doing?
0:46.6	Good, man. I got a few listener questions here for you. The first one from Dan, when a ship is said to be 130,000 tons, what exactly does that mean? It can't quite
0:56.1	possibly mean that the ship only weighs 260,000 pounds. No, the tonnage is called gross
1:05.5	registered tonnets, which is the measurement of the interior volume. It is not about the weight. So when a ship is said
1:12.2	to be 130,000 tons, but typically it's, it's almost half of what the gross registered tonnage is,
1:19.4	which again is the interior volume. Okay, so like with the Oasis class ships, they're 200 and what, 25?
1:26.1	205 to 200 and what 28, 208,000 tons. They are, and what, 25? $2.25 to 200 and, what, 28,000 tons.
1:30.2	They are, I remember because that was one of the first ships in over 31 years that I saw
1:35.6	that actually disclosed what the displaced tonnage was.
1:39.4	And I remember on Oasis of the Seas, they said the displaced tonnage was about 115,000 tons.
1:48.4	To give you an idea, the largest aircraft carrier in the world, the displaced tonnage of that fully armed right now is around 100,000 tons.
1:56.8	All of the Oasis-class ships are heavier and, you know, carry more people than the world's
2:03.2	largest aircraft carriers. Next question comes from Marcy. We are seeing cruise lines like
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