Some Fun Cruise Facts

Hello my friends,

In my continuing research into the cruise industry I often come across some fun facts that I thought I would share with you all today. Enjoy!


On a three-day Disney Wonder cruise, 6,525 pool towels will be used and washed, enough to handle every athlete of every participating country's Olympic swimming team.

Freedom of the Seas has enough staterooms to host all, and I mean all, NFL, MLB and NBA players and coaches in one single sailing.

The average expenditure for the mass market cruise line on food is under $7.00 a day per passenger

What does it take to stock one of the world's largest cruise ships? From place settings in the restaurants to supplies in the staterooms to provisions in the kitchen, these are just some of the items needed for Grand Princess' passengers and crew:

96,396 pieces of glassware
51,612 pieces of silver-plated flatware
13,200 bath towels
8,640 boxes of facial tissue
23,000 bed sheets
59,300 wooden coat hangers
18,000 rolls of toilet paper

A year in an “assisted-living facility” costs Americans, on average, around $28,500 a year. In large cities such as Chicago, costs are even higher, topping $40,000. Living in a dedicated cabin aboard the Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas, on the other hand, rings in at a rather competitive $33,260 a year.

The average passenger spends $220 per day onboard the ship.

Morgan Robertson’s “The Wreck of the Titan,” is an unusual novel describing the doomed voyage of the luxury liner Titan, the largest and most glamorous liner ever constructed. Carrying the wealthy and prominent of her time on her April maiden voyage between Southampton and New York, she set out to break a nautical speed record. In the middle of the night, the Titan struck an iceberg and sank, killing most of the passengers as a result of an insufficient number of life boats. “The Wreck of the Titan” was published in 1898, fourteen years before the Titanic sank!