If one thinks about it, running a cruise ship like the one we’re on right now is a pretty incredible operation. 1400 passengers who have be fed, watered and entertained 18 hours a day while keeping this 20,000 ton floating hotel afloat and sailing in the right direction, 600 crew to do all that and they have to be maintained too. The crew that serves the passengers has at least 4 types of uniform and they are all impeccably clean, groomed and attired. Just think of the laundry they must have somewhere inside the ship, not to say carpenters, plumbers, computer engineers and more. How many kilos of white shoe polish do they consume every year? And we are on one of Costa’s smaller ships – the bigger ones take up to 2800 passengers!
The ship is kept spotlessly clean – I see the cleaning crews at night – to the extent of hosing and scrubbing down the decks and outside of the cabins every day. All food is freshly prepared – there are over 100 cooks and Costa claims to have been awarded the RINA “Green Star” award for environmental correctness in disposing of the ships’ waste.
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