MathiasK hat geschrieben:Moin Dirk,
allways you will put each old Liner for your Hotel an Museum. I think that you will be a konkurrent for the scrappers in India after you win few millions in the lotteria
Regards Mathias K.
You be sure I would!!!
Call me a nut, call me crazy or other niceties, but if I had the money (does Bill Gates still need an heir?!) I'd realize at least part of my dream and put the most valuable old vessels to good use as floating museums which would house hotels!
I know this never will happen, but at least I want to try to have ONE of the nice old dames preserved. Ruby of course would be the best since Rose is lost (she'd have been the Empress of all!) and Mona Lisa is degraded and indistinguished, but there are other candidates (Funchal, Princess Daphne, Black Prince, even Athena or Marco Polo or Orient Queen, not to mention Pacific!).
To come back to the matter of this thread, after losing Maxim, we even had our eyes on Astoria whose future was in doubt back then. But she was not suitable with her many interior cabins which would have been difficult to re-organize and put to other use.
So I hope she will sail on for a long time - hopefully alongside Spirit of Adventure rather than replacing her! Since Spirit is only half the size of future Quest, Saga could use the smaller one on destination-intensive voyages which would be unavailable to the slightly larger Quest which in turn could be sailing more mass-market oriented special destinations. If you understand what I mean...I hope I do myself!
Together they sure would make a nice team and win the hearts of their passengers.