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Is there a mid-level way to cross the Atlantic by ship?

  • Airbus will http://www.luxist.com/entry/1234000540027779/%20 their new "flying cruise ship" (see pictures) this week and it will probably be beyond the cost for most people. But it made me think that we all ideally want to travel like that, but put up with crowded planes because they are fast and relatively cheap. Ships used to be the way to travel across the Atlantic, is it possible to travel by ship across the Atlantic without spending a lot of money? It seems the choices are high-end cruise ship, or low-brow freighter travel. Does an affordable, middle-market quick human transportation by ship service exist across the Atlantic?

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    I have no idea what the answer to your question is, but holy cow those pictures are amazing!

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Oh - the humanity [sic].

jmgorman

I'm sure the terrorists are excited too.

Fupped Duck

Thanks, billsaysthis. I missed that one and I really enjoyed reading it.

cali

We recently had a http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/38145 over in the Gray on this topic too.

billsaysthis

the Norway, which used to be the France I thought it got turned into a hotel or something - your comment led me http://www.maritimematters.com/norway.html, which has the whole history of the liner, with funkalicious pix of the 1970s chic I remembered. Funny how that style looks cool again. Thanks!

CunningLinguist

What oil crisis?

tidecat

Every international flight I'd been on has all sorts of duty free booze and perfume on board for inflight hawking. In a little store, with all of it out on little shelves and passengers milling around it, or available through the flight attendants with the goods stowed? It's not the sales I doubt, it's the store. But I'll admit that I haven't flown transatlantic since 1981. I was on the last crossing of the France, still (I think) the biggest ever liner, and had a blast. Happy to be corrected; just what I gathered from shows, magazine articles, etc. I'd suggest to you or your folks that they might try a trip on the Norway, which used to be the France, but it's apparently laid-up after a fire.

ROU_Xenophobe

They're especially not going to have a little shop full of glass bottles of volatile, flammable liquids (ie, booze and alcohol-laden perfumes) ready to get smashed in the next bout of turbulence Every international flight I'd been on has all sorts of duty free booze and perfume on board for inflight hawking. Not to pick on you but: it was dreadfully boring in any case I was on the last crossing of the France, still (I think) the biggest ever liner, and had a blast. Of course I was just a kid and there's nothing more fun than a big ship to explore. But my parents did the crossings a lot when they were young and they said it was terrific. You relaxed, met lots of interesting people, lounged in the library, ate great food etc....When they retired, they tried to recapture that shipboard experience by taking a Caribbean cruise but came home shell shocked by how vulgar everything was.

CunningLinguist

(granted, that's more than the price of my entire vacations usually, but not out-of-reach)

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