Did you know that the cabin on your next (or last) cruise is a prefab? That in all likelihood, your cruise ship cabin was completely designed and built off-site -- and then trucked, intact, to a shipyard where it was slotted into place as if a piece of a jigsaw puzzle?
If you've ever cruised on Royal Caribbean's Radiance-, Voyager- or Freedom-class ships in anything but a huge suite, you've stayed in one of these prefabs. Same goes for a variety of other vessels, such as Costa Atlantica and Costa Mediterranea, Carnival's Spirit class (which also includes Carnival Legend, Carnival Pride and Carnival Miracle), and cruise ferries like Tallink's Galaxy and Color Line's Fantasy.
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