World's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage

[mahatmakanejeeves]

This article is based on an account in the Daily Mail, so maybe some parts are true, and maybe not.

Boatlopnik

World's Largest Cruise Ship to Be Scrapped Before First Voyage

It may have cost around $1.4 billion to built, but the Global Dream II is destined to be trash.

By Andy Kalmowitz | Yesterday 4:00PM

The ship that would have become the world’s largest cruise liner has been scrapped before it ever had the chance to take its maiden voyage. ... If wasting wild amounts of resources and money is your type of thing, this is the story for you.

Global Dream II was slated to carry 9,000 passengers and was built by German-Hong Kong shipbuilding firm MV Werften to the tune of nearly $1.4 billion, according to the Daily Mail. It was nearly finished when the company went bankrupt at the start of this year.

Since that happened, no buyer has stepped up to buy the 20-deck, 1,122-foot-long monstrosity. That means it’s now destined for the scrap heap. The Mail says that Global Dream II also features an outdoor waterpark and a movie theater. Man, I really don’t get cruises.

The capacity of this ship blows the second largest ship, the Oasis-class Wonder of the Sea which is owned and operated by Royal Caribbean, out of the water (I love a good pun). The Wonder of the Seas has a passenger capacity of only 6,988. Pathetic.

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[Ocelot II]

1. Going on a cruise with 9,000 other people is not my idea of a dream vacation.

[HUAJIAO]

2. Good ! Monster cruise ships suck...

[essaynnc]

3. Send it to a large city to house the homeless?

I'm sure you could get a good deal....

[2naSalit]

8. +1

[Botany]

4. I don't get it. One look @ that ship has a "that would be a no from me" answer.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. That's Genting Dream. It displaces only 151,000 tons.

Genting Dream

Tonnage: 150,695 GT

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History

Genting Dream was ordered as Genting World in October 2013 for Star Cruises. Construction began on 9 February 2015. In November 2015, she was transferred to sister brand Dream Cruises and on 19 August 2016 she was floated out of dry dock.

Global Dream II displaces 208,000 tons.

[sanatanadharma]

6. Turn it into a high-rise apartment building, dry-docked somewhere

Most likely it would become high-society city rather than a homeless sea-side succor.

[Mopar151]

9. Send it to Havana, for tourist accommodations

While rebuilding the onshore infrastructure.

[GreenWave]

7. Why not invite all the main Federalist Society elite and appointees

To tour the Antarctic and laugh up close how it is melting? I got a good feeling Karma is waiting.