What it's like aboard a huge cruise ship

By Brian Johnston
Updated January 10 2018 - 11:08am, first published 10:55am

I gawk at Celebrity Silhouette at its dock in Amsterdam as if I'm from the land of Lilliputians. It's as if one of the small ships I'm more used to has been inflated with a bicycle pump by some avant-garde prankster. It's my regular cruise experience upsized. I find myself as unnerved as a peasant among skyscrapers as I check in amid a happy hum of passengers. Can a ship really hold this many people?

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