DEEP SEA HOLIDAY

Hokitika Guardian, 10 February 1934, Page 6

DEEP SEA HOLIDAY

PENNY-A-MILE LUXURY CRUISE

LONDON, February 7

With countless lights gleaming through the portholes in her snowwhite hull, ,the first of a fleet of floating hotels which will cruise 250j000 miles in search of sunshine, health aria novelty steamed out of Liverpool harbour " for .New ;Yoi‘k ori ' a five months’ voyage around the world. She has been specially painted white in order, to. resemble; a. gigaritibi yacht. And she is in fact 1 a floating luxury hotel. For .the past two months she has. been overhauled from stem to stern. ..Miles ' ( of alleyways rand corridors have been' redecorated in: tones of pale blue and biscuit,; and/ the whole pf the ship’s /flooring. has been . stripped and relaid with over an acre of new covering. , .

. Bedrooms' and public . rooms have been redecorated and a new . beauty parlour for women installed. The sporting facilities .cover some 5000 square feet of space and include a large swimming pool, a squash 1 rackets court and a gymnasium. 1

In the reconditioning of • the ship’s cabin accommodation alone a mile and a. half of wall fabrics, six miles of; pip-’ ing ; over 2 k miles of new carpets and hundreds of gallons of paint, have been expended. From January to October seven ships of the Cunard : fleet—the- giant Mauretania and Aquitania, the ’Caririthia, Samaria; Larconia, liancastria and Franconia—will make some 43 cruises from, this country and.-the, United States. ' A

Some of the cruises will cost only nine guineas, while for others, such as the Franconia’s world voyage, a luxury suite will cost 2540 guineas. . This ambitious scheme of- voyages in search of. health and relaxation, is due to the great success of .this past year’s pleasure’ cruise, in which the. Cunard line alone carried over- 28,000 passengers. ' "" • ’ ’ ' .

The new programme, allows for doubkythat number of clients inany of whdtn will, be transported, -housed and fed at charges which work out at less than one'penny a mile. .