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about Norwegian cruise lines they want to get bigger by getting smaller let's
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describing everything come and join us now here is what has been touted as the
future of the Norwegian or we just been telling us they're gonna build these
ships here the Leonardo class they've just finished building these ships this
is the Bliss the NCL bless big success huge go kart track at the back the Bliss
has over 4200 passengers has been in Seattle working the Alaska routes
working out of Los Angeles going through the Panama Canal now they've just
released the Norwegian encore a sister ship to the Bliss and the joy it also
has a huge go-cart at sea but now they're talking or it happened for a
couple of years now about bringing out this ship the Leonardo class holding
3,300 passengers not 4,200 to replace ultimately these ships these are the
oldest ships in Norwegians fleet we've got the Norwegian sky here we've got the
Norwegian spirit there's also some ships from the 2000 era the Norwegian Sun and
the star these ships are holding anywhere from 1902 to about 2,100
passengers and logic would dictate that they would replace these ships with the
Leonardo class ships and so the story was for Leonardo ships were ordered then
two more were optioned and were now told six are coming but then something
happened last month this ship right here then the
Weejun spirit the oldest ship in the fleet they've announced a 100 million
dollar refurbishment to this ship which means they're not gonna replace it for
at least 10 years which begs the question does that mean that this ship
is dead the Ilia Nardo class is it not coming out after all it's a unique
design but it didn't have go-karts it doesn't have a lot of features that
these are newer ships had that just released what's the deal with the
Leonardo class I can understand one thing
these ships right here these older ships put a hundred million into these and you
can spiffed them up real nice and it only takes you about a month or two to
do it for hundred million dollars refurbishes for ships one Leonardo ship
850 million one of these ships like the bliss of the Encore 1.1 billion dollars
per ship when you build a ship of this size and at this cost you have to
generate 150 to 200 bucks a night from your room rates to pay for it
with the Leonardo class ships 850 million each for 3,300 passengers and
they were still going to be burning diesel fuel what are they thinking I
can't understand why a new ship that's gonna be around until 2050 would still
be burning diesel when you've got LNG powered ships coming out from other
cruise lines these old engines in the the old ships they can modify these and
Birnam me and again even burn a lot cleaner they can also like I said with a
hundred million dollars modify the old decks here really spruce up the old
ships and these ships even with 100 million sunk into them you don't have to
generate about 125 a night to pay the way the old restaurants can be spruced
up and jazzed up so that the specialty dining game continues at norwegian we
all know norwegian ously the king of nickel and diming us for all the extras
but they always attract us with a low fare to get us on board with these
larger newer ships I don't know if that's gonna work the other thing too
with the older ships they'll be allowed into the smaller ports
Marseille Santorini a number of European ports are bucking at the big ships they
don't want the giant 5,000 passenger ships in there in their ports they want
the smaller ships to handle the crowds and of course the older vessels have a
certain charm that resonates with a lot of travelers take a look at this picture
here this is Venice you can see up there there is a ports Venice right now is
having a battle with cruise lines I cannot see large even Leonardo class
ships being welcomed in here they're gonna have to stick around with the
smaller ships and that's why I think the Norwegian star the Sun the others are
gonna be welcome in Marseille even with their diesel burning engines they'll
convert these ships to ship the short power so they can shut off the engines
when they're in port we're gonna have to see how this all plays out like I said
six Leonardo class ships were supposed to
start coming out in 2022 haven't heard a thing about them Leonardo ships now for
over nine months it's been dead silence no new artists renditions have been made
available no features no specifics other than a generic we're gonna bring it out
gonna own port one of them in Southampton they said six eight months
ago it's been quiet ever since we'll have to see if Norwegian decides to
change these ships and maybe make them LNG powered redesign them entirely or
wait five or ten years before they bring out any new ships in the meantime we'll
keep following it thanks for joining me today I hope you liked the video if you
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