It seems like just the thing if you like being around lots of people: 7600 passengers and 2350 crew. Most of it is "below deck." The number of passengers goes as the cube of the length, but the area exposed to the sky only goes as the square, and the gangway space only as the length. That looks like a nice fat gangway, though.
Nevertheless, "the sunlit lands" seem fairly extensive--I ballparked about 35 square feet per passenger(*). On the SS Badger I liked being on deck or at least by a large window (why else are you on the water?), but some people like indoor amusements--which might be enlivened by common experiences along the trip. I'm not a huge fan of crowds, but possibly fellow traveler friendships might make the crowding less of an annoyance.
A cruise trip like that is a bit too pricey to enjoy, but it doesn't seem entirely crazy--on a smaller ship where you could get to know a few people. Something this big seems too easy to get lost on.
(*) For comparison, our bedroom is 120 square feet, or 60 each.
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We have taken ferries of various sizes. We took a Caribbean cruise in 2014. It was nice in many ways, but i wouldn't go again. I was nervous about falling overboard even with the high plexiglass panels that would make this nearly impossible. Such fears were unknown to me in my younger years.
We spent a week in the Mediterranean aboard the Star Clipper...sail-powered, 166 passengers. Very nice.
https://www.starclippers.com/us-dom/our-fleet/tall-ships/star-clipper.html
I mentioned that to my wife, and she told me of the Gotheborg rescue.
It's big.
The problem of being on a cruise is that you can't just stop and get off. But that's a benefit for many people.
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