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Android Ahoy!

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I was a sixteen-year-old rookie sailor when I joined my first ship, the RMS Britannic, the last of the White Star Liners. Not much had changed for passengers since the same company’s RMS Titanic met its tragic end. Progress was slow at the time. The Britannic ended its Atlantic voyages with several weeks sailing through the ports of the Mediterranean. Many of our populated municipalities of the Coast would have been fishing villages at that time.

Cruising progress since then has been amazing. To be honest, I prefer the old ways, but I can’t stop the progress. When passengers boarded those ocean greyhounds, there was a long and tedious check-in and boarding process to complete long before the cabin was shown to you.

So let’s book a cruise on Royal Caribbean International’s latest cruise ship, the Quantum of the Seas. What comparisons can be made between the two periods? The RMS (Royal Mail Ship) Britannic was just over 700 feet long and weighed just over 27,000 tons. RCCL Quantum Class liners are twice the length and 168,000 tonnes, an incredible seven times the weight of White Star liner.

It’s best not to think about the many hours it took to finally retrieve your luggage and get to one’s cabin on yesterday’s super liners. Today, RCCL promises its 4,000 boarding passengers that their luggage will be stored and that they will be in their cabins within 10 minutes of arrival. Airports, take note. There will be no channeling with you on board. Register online. There are no queues to join, and you won’t wait in a long line to have your ID checked, fill out paperwork, and collect your stateroom keys. You take a selfie, upload it to the online check-in website, fill in your passport details, and print your boarding pass. Show this to security and go to your cabin.

Yours is a hotel card key, but you will also receive a WOWband bracelet. Covers all your needs, including purchases on board. It’s waterproof, so wear it when splashing in any of the liner’s many pools and hot tubs. There is no escaping from the office or from Facebook. The cladding uses a new type of near-Earth satellite. Internet access is guaranteed anywhere on the ship; there are no dead spots.

The ship’s staff are equipped with tablets, not the kind you get at the pharmacy for aches and pains, but with laptops that take care of all the necessities. A Royal iQ app and Android device allow you to plan, change schedules such as spa appointments, dinner reservations, shore excursions, etc. The cabins have USB charging ports.

There are 45 iQ stations that interact with your WOW band. They access everything and everyone, including your friends on board. The ocean liners also have two robotic bartenders. Use your tablet to order cocktails, these are mixed and delivered by robots. Suddenly, a trip on the RMS Titanic seems quite attractive.

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