LUXURY LINERS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 265, 5 August 1929, Page 12

LUXURY LINERS

PLEASURE CRUISING. Hermann Melville in bis novel “Redburn” painted a very terrible picture of emigrant conditions aboard ship some 50 years ago. That was the third-class travel of those not so very remote days. Now huge liners specially equipped for third-class tourists yearly take thousands of students and workers on instruction or holiday bent across the Atlantic from both East and West AU the big steamship lines have gone in for pleasure cruising. The latest to enter the field is the Blue Star Line, which has spent £200,000 on reconstructing and enlarging for this traffic a single ship, the Arandora Star, which two years ago was carrying passengers and cargo between England and South America. Spacious and airy staterooms occupy the vast holds once filled with chilled meat. Cabins and bunks are out of date; chintz curtained bedrooms have taken their place. Fixed wash-hand basins with hot and cold water are provided for each of the two occupants of a room, whose beds are twenty feet apart Not least of the comforts of this wonder ship is the fact that the whole of the 300 passengers to whom accommodation is limited may have their meals in the huge dining-room at one sitting. On the same broad deck are a lounge, a library, 1 smoking room, a ballroom, and a veranda cafe. And for accommodation on this scale one may cruise for a fortnight in tha Norwegian fjord* for Ivvanty guineas.