Thanks for watching David! ❤️❤️

Yes, excellent report - if not rather sad that many of these ships have been scrapped. Can't fight the coof there, though. International cruising is basically dead cos of the coof. Thanks China.....

Thanks Mark! ❤️

Me too! Back in 1986. Very good time.

I took the holiday from Puerto Rico down to the Caribbean back in 2001 and I think that was the last cruise before they retired her it was nice was very nice Cruise right great ship

Thanks so much Shawn! Thanks for watching 😅❤️

This really is the perfect time for the lines to scrap their older boats and maybe order a few new ships that are considered "green". It wouldn't surprise me to have a company announce a green boat in the near future. Not sure exactly what would make it green. Solar panels maybe?

Yes that is correct: it’s a cost analyst decision:

Thank you so much for watching! Appreciate it :D

Thanks so much Max ❤️

Same!!

There has been a movement in the airline buisiness to fly to smaller air ports direct and the A380.s are no longer an ideal aircraft for to-day's economic airline requirements. Things change and passenger shipping also is no exception.

Thanks Dirk! Appreciate you 😀❤️

Haha! Yep sadly that’s the way they often go ☹️❤️

Woah that'll be SO cool! I've got to get on a Carnival cruise soon :'(

Having cruised 20 times it is becoming tiresome when the plebs who walk amongst us ask if new jeans are acceptable on formal nights. Should these really be on board. It can only get worse.

@@7755ian1 “the plebs” 😂 arriviste much?

Nice information. Costs alot to man a crew fuel berth food and drink ect. If one could drydock one of these would make a cool housing for students studying marine education

I was on an early cruise on the Aria when it joined P&O. I enjoyed the cruise, the food etc but there was a lot of issues with leaking during wet weather. Once day there was a full waterfall down a main staircase. It was a nice little ship but i can see why they sold it on.

do the sailors give you a bumming? or are you the captains play thing? gobble gobble!

@@afganno3385 what a weird thing to comment

Following on that, allow, please, a friendly suggestion to "Emma Cruises" -- Early last fall I bought two DVD sets from years one and two of "The Love Boat" during this slow, excruciatingly-quiet, pandemic-caused, endless 'down time.' I've watched maybe six or seven shows, plus the 1977 90-minute pilot, and feel like I got my money's worth. In time I'll be back for more viewing from these DVD sets. "The Love Boat" is kind of fun; it is definitely 'of its time,' mid-1970s to mid-1980s. Running that extreme duration validates it did have appeal and qualities within that kept audiences coming back week after week for an hour's worth of gentle, sometimes silly, mindless fluff. In other words, it was and remains popular. Keep in mind, the scripts are 'not rocket science;' nor 'Shakespeare.' But then the producers didn't strive it to be nor claimed it to be. Well-produced, light entertainment; easy on the brain; that was "The Love Boat." Oh, and pretty to look at with at least some of the guest cast appearing attractive and fit, perfectly attired; lit and filmed with TLC. Consistently easy on the eyes were babes and hunks (sometimes) 'decorating' the pool area and various scenes' backgrounds. . . . . Compared to today's 3,000 to 6,000 passenger ships, some evoking floating hotel + theme parks, the intimate sensation of a the Pacific Princess, a medium size ship of that era with less than 700 passengers, is quite quaint. In addition a crew where everyone not only knows each other, but likes each other while regularly getting personal with so many passengers is pretty much pure fantasy. It's abundantly clear this is a pre-pandemic, pre 9/11 world. Security, for example? Non existent. The regulars portraying captain, yeoman-purser, physician, cruise director, bartender and photographer are individually and overall likeable. There are scenes from three stories mixed within each hour and romance guaranteed to be the theme of at least one. Now, if one segment 'bores one to tears,' s/he can expect that one or two of the others will engage, or not insult one's intelligence. Pertaining to likeability, if one watches from the show's third TV movie / pilot (1977; 90 minutes; provided on the series' DVD) one witnesses the evolution and the necessary change a principal characters right before one's eyes. Gavin MacLeod's Captain Stubbing is a grouch, and a fussy, stand-offish, by-the-book, my-way-or-the-highway man. Understandably his crew did not like him and went out of their way to avoid him. Apparently the initial test audiences didn't either because his personality did a 180 as seen in the subsequent 250 regular, weekly episodes. One of the reasons for its enduring popularity is that the uber successful producer, Aaron Spelling, cast familiar television and film performers in guest roles; some, admittedly, 'past their prime,' but still of interest to the home audience. This aspect will be less appealing to individuals of our hostess "Emma Cruises"'s age, i.e., being unfamiliar with the cast, regular and guest, but it likely will be of interest because of the familiarity of the sea-going environment. Obviously the logistics of keeping the film crew and principal stars on a ship for nine months out of each year for filming purposes isn't practical, so the majority of the shooting is on the traditional Hollywood sound stages, with a token amount shot on voyages of the Pacific Princess, traditionally at the beginning of each season. One easily spots portions of the Queen Mary, infamously docked in Long Beach, Calif. as s tourist attraction and hotel since 1986, occasionally called into service as a set. Ed. - I anticipate 99% of readers in this thread know that. "Thanks for listening. Stay safe."

Work for the scrappers.

Scrapped, no, recycled yes. More in build now.

Haha! I do have some notes when I record 😂👏🏼

Sailed her to Vanuatu. Lovely ship.

I was on her last cruise, when covid struck. I liked her smaller size, the staff were great.

Same, my first cruise was on the dawn Jan 2020. It was a neat experience

Thanks Lou! ❤️

I sailed on the Marco Polo in 1967 when it was the Aleksandr Pushkin. Went from Montreal and Expo 67, through the Saint Lawrence, to London and got off in Helsinki. And then returned. This was still in the days when people traveled by ship, not just cruised.

@@paulaprice493 I also sailed on the Alexadre Pushkin in 1989. It was already an old ship BACK then. From memory it had share bathrooms...LOL !

Francis, My Dad passed within 3 days of his last cruise. He was losing energy but never appetite! I’m always comforted he got ONE MORE cruise in!

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Thank you! 😁❤️

Yesss!!!!! This is exactly it. Couldn’t describe it better myself 😀❤️

Very interesting, thanks 😀👏🏼

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Yess’ Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

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Thank you! 😁❤️

Haha! So true. I agree about New Zealand. Thanks for watching ❤️

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Thank China.

Ted, my FIRST cruise was with HAL on the Maasdam. Though the ship was aging, the CREW quickly won me over. I haven’t had a cruise yet to top that one! I wanted to take my retirement cruise on the Maasdam, sorta a come “full circle “ thing , but I was sad when I learned they sold it. Instead, I’m sailing on the Eurodam in couple of weeks. The Maasdam had a deck or two that kept you from walking from one side of the ship to the next. You had to remember to go up a deck, then back down, to get to other side. Fun times! I remember a lecture where some smarty pants was trying to “educate “ the Chief Engineer on the kind of engines the Maasdam had. Finally losing patience, the Chief Engineer had to tell the fella, “Look, I work on these engines EVERY day. I THINK I know what kind they are!” I will have to KZfaq the Maasdam for sentimental reasons!

This is why Japan must buy those used cruise ships as rescue boats helping all North Korean and Chinese defectors come to Japan.

My first cruise was on sister ship to Maasdam, the statendam when it belonged to P&O Australia

Agreed!! 💕

Lol cruises suck. I’m glad it’s a dead industry

@@prabeeshsidhu You are in the wrong channel I guess

It was great to have worked on board cruise ships back in the 2000s, up untill 2010 it was nice. Last time it was horrible in 2015-2016. Drastically reduced free time in ports and a lot more work to do for the same wages as back in 2010. It must be horrible to cruise in 2020. Even more horrible to be a crew/staff memeber. Cruise ships became literal floating prisons.

That is a downside for sure! 🤣

The difference is that the crap we blast down the throne in our house is processed and not directly dumped into water. Fish indeed sh(t and die in the ocean and lakes, but they were already there... when humans do it we are moving waste into that environment and overloading the bacterial system that takes care of it. It's the same in the ocean as it is in ponds and lakes, if I dump my septic into the pond near my house the bacteria will flourish, algae will flourish, then it dies off - depletes teh water of oxygen - and everything dies. That's the worst case, best case the algae just grows and the water is always green and slimy, but that's rarely the case. I'm not an enviro nut, but I like aquariums and understand how these natural systems work and we should at least do our best to not blatantly be dirty. Besides, I have to have a working septic system on my house, the billion dollar cruise lines should also follow the same rules, put a few less rooms in and store it / process it. We also have to have expensive emissions equipment on our cars, so shouldn't these ships not be exempt? Diesel vehicles have roughly $4-10k in emissions equipment in the exhaust, yet ships are exempt?

@@cyborgblowfish4875 It would seem that your answer was directed at me. I am not in engineering, I am in passenger services but I will try to address your concerns based upon what I know. I get this thrown at me occasionally onboard, so here goes. Yes, its true I lament the passing of the Pacific Princess. I also lament my 69 Charger 440. But, maybe its a good thing right? Cruise ships have been late for addressing environmental concerns because for a very long time the ocean was seen as being so vast that it was not something that many people thought could be affected by them. Smog in cities led to emission controls on vehicles. Smog on the ocean was never an issue. But sir, things have changed. Modern day cruise ships are now powered by LNG with exhaust gas cleaning systems, we have advanced wastewater purification systems now so that the "crap" that is discharged meets the same or higher standards than on land. Gray water is purified and reused. Cruise ship water is purified to the same standard or higher than North American and European Standards. I drink it right out of the tap, no need for bottled water. Air lubrication systems on the hull and special paint coatings on the hull reduce fuel consumption, engines are more efficient, we use shore side power now, we are not using our engines. We recycle more than some cities do. Some ships literally take care of 100% of of waste aboard - we remove it shoreside, we reuse some, we recycle what we can and some is even used to create energy. A number of cruise lines have banned single use plastics "sin popote" no straws! LED lighting, tinted windows, more energy efficient appliances onboard, we even optimize our itineraries for speed and distance to conserve fuel. Fuel is our second biggest cost after labor. So there you have it. As I often say "we are in the same boat"! Hope to see you onboard!

It is very heartbreaking I can't even watch the videos of her interior too many memories it's really like going back in time I wish they could have had a place where they pet store or keep the old ships like a museum but I realize that's impossible but they mean a lot more to me than some old historical building that's for sure.

@@jamesconway4821 Its very sad and I appreciate your comment. At the Captain's Circle cocktail party many passengers remarked to me that it was their favourite ship. Not everyone buys into, "bigger is better". The ship was unique in its cabins and public areas, it was small at 680 passengers, people enjoyed the intimacy and the relaxed atmosphere. It was nice to recognize passengers and they were so pleasant to me.

@@burningblue1254 we definitely have come a long way but there's so much more they could be doing and the technology we have is so much more advanced than what we currently see. right around the corner these cruise ships will be looking like spaceships wider rounder more advanced more maneuverability I even saw where they were working on new designs for Life boats that actually fit into the design of the ship and break away from the ship in large sections so there's no hoisting down or dangling lifeboats anymore it'll all be something like Transformers and this would also allow the ship to bring guests into ports that the ship is too big to come into and work perfect for private islands bringing their guests to the shore from the ship vice versa the sections that would break away are extremely large so there's no need to panic or crowd into a small Lifeboat it would just be like going into another part of the ship that could even be used as a lounge and would in itself be its own vessel fully capable like a small ship but really wide giving less rocking motion creating a much more smoother ride on the ocean then say a Lifeboat. It would also make evacuation of the ship much faster if a emergency ever occurred.

They are floating garbage cans. Who cares.

@@a.jlondon9039 disagree on your comments

Totally the best 😀❤️

It was before I was born! 🤣🤣🤣

@@EmmaCruises But it was on a lot earlier than 1995. I believe the second season would have been in the late 1970s 😂

@@brandoline94 They tried to do a reboot of The Love Boat in the 90's called "Love Boat, The Next Cruise" I believe for like one or two seasons. @Emma Crusies, you now have no excuse! :)

@@brandoline94 Yes from 1977 to 1986.

Oh yes! I’d love to visit. One day 😀👏🏼

Haha!

Good to know, thanks! ❤️👏🏼

Ooo interesting! Thanks for sharing 🥳❤️

I had to.. haha :D

Yum! 🤤🥔

Omg yeah! Haha.

Frankly, I’m surprised that ONLY 10% of all cruise ships are being sold or scrapped.

So far...

Marine regs have determined their scrapping, cheaper to build new than retrofit. More in build or on order than being recycled.

Hey John! Thanks so much for watching. I haven’t heard anything else but I’ll keep my eyes peeled 😀❤️

Thanks Pete! Appreciate that :-)

Thank you! 😁❤️

Correct that. Looks like they are going as well

Ooo yes! She would be a great hotel.

Would love to see a boatel, at Nynashamn, Södertälje or even Östhammar.

Isn’t this the ship that sank the Andrea Doria? They should keep it just for that history alone.

@@Kumi12341 it was indeed! Actually both ships made mistakes that night, but the Doria paid the ultimate price!

Thank you so much! I appreciate you too 😀❤️

@@EmmaCruises Aww, my eyes are leaking. Keep being you, don't let the haters get you down and you'll do well😊🤗😊

Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

@@EmmaCruises I should have mentioned that this ship was captained by Karin Stahre-Janson when we sailed on it. I think you did mention her at some point. She did an excellent job.

Toooooo expensive, even the queen Mary is hemorrhaging money :(

There is a ship deserving that fate more than any ship here, the SS United States

@@10gamer64 I drive past it everyday, what a waste!

@@thewesties8725 Yes, a waste, a beautiful ship slowly rotting to death with barely enough money to keep it afloat

Haha! Yep the show was over before I was born. 😆

@@EmmaCruises I date women half my age.... the other day I asked her "Kanye West? who's she?" ....

To any die hard Love Boat fans you can watch it on CBS online. I think it's $5.99 but I'm not positive on the price.

I have cruises with the Carnival Fantasy many times and it broke my heart that it was scrapped. It was my families favorite small cruise ship. She will be missed very much.

Not until 2022.....

Waste disposal is an issue due to marine regs.

@@7755ian1 Good point. We d the illegals to a smelting plant instead. Or have I misunderstood......

Or ships to return illegals back to where they came from. USA could run ten ships daily for ten years and still have over 20 million illegals living in our nation.

Thanks for watching 😀👏🏼

Oh you 😂❤️

Easy there fella.

What a waste. Just to make rassoe blades

No no no. It's Trumps fault. Didn't you get the memo?

thanks xenophobic edge lord