Would you ever want to take a cruise on a ship this big?

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You can tell that spring is coming - or that the half-term holidays arrived. Last week I was working out of our Amsterdam office for a couple of days. I had to change hotels because my favourite was full and this photo shows the reason why. Between our office building and the hotel is the Amsterdam cruise terminal and a 'big boat' was docked right outside. In fact it was so big that it stretched beyond the hotel in one direction and beyond our building in the other. The ship was the P&O Ventura which a colleague rushed off and 'googled' before declaring that it was the biggest of P&Os vessels and that it was - most likely - full of Brits. The office regulars say it's the biggest they can recall seeing since normally we look down on the ships' decks from our floor but this time it really wasn't far below us. The ships never get boring. There are a couple of guys who always grab the desks by the window - something to do with the German cruisers having a sauna on the top deck leading to occasional glances of naked holiday makers. We waved them off on their travels and tried not to look too closely at the lady wearing only a towel who seemed to have forgotten that she wasn't at sea yet and hadn't pulled the curtains. Whilst I like the idea of waking up in a different city every day, I know that I'm not cut out for being herded around with thousands of other people so cruising is definitely not for me. How about you? Does this look like paradise or hell on water?