Cruising on the World’s Biggest Ships: Anton Ptushkin’s Video and Allure of the Seas
I love watching videos about travel and life in other countries, usually on different bloggers’ channels. And now and then I travel a little myself :-)
Recently I came across a fascinating video by Anton Ptushkin, “A Cruise on the World’s Biggest Liners. Big Episode” (in Russian). In 2017–2018 Anton hosted the travel show Oryol i Reshka (“Heads and Tails”), and now he films his trips for his own YouTube channel.
In the photo: the huge Oasis-class cruise ship Allure of the Seas.
Great footage and storytelling. I definitely recommend watching it to broaden your horizons and to see how much fun a cruise can be, and how it doesn’t have to be very expensive (relatively speaking, of course).
Well done, Anton: he explained, described and showed everything beautifully. I’ve never been very interested in cruises; for now I’m still exploring Egypt, Turkey and the Emirates. But this video opens up new horizons for travel :-)
I agree with all the positive comments under the video. Viewers write that they watched it to the end even though they don’t care about cruises, they praise the editing and the presentation, and some admit that after this episode they want to learn English and save up for a trip.
Allure of the Seas in numbers
- operator: Royal Caribbean International; it’s the second ship of the Oasis class;
- built in Finland at the STX Europe shipyard in Turku; maiden voyage on December 1, 2010;
- length: about 362 m (1,187 ft); gross tonnage: over 225,000;
- 16 passenger decks out of 18;
- 5,484 passengers at double occupancy and up to 6,780 at most; a crew of about 2,200.
A fun fact: Allure of the Seas is 50 mm (2 in) longer than her sister Oasis of the Seas, even though both were built to the same plans. The shipyard said the difference wasn’t intentional and was probably caused by the temperature of the steel during construction. When she was launched in 2009, Allure became the largest passenger ship in the world, and later the record passed to the next ships in the series, Harmony of the Seas and Symphony of the Seas.
What it’s like in real life
A reader shared her experience in the comments: in May 2017 she went on a Pullmantur cruise aboard the Sovereign around the Mediterranean. She liked the guide for Russian- and English-speaking passengers, the tasty and varied food, the friendly staff, the evening theater shows, the gym and the pools.
A definite like from me: it was great to watch, and I hope one day I’ll get to sail on one of these giant monsters too.