Portland hosts one of the world’s largest cruise ships

Experience adventurous cruising on the oceans round the world on the world's biggest cruise ships of the present. 

According to Press Herald, one of the world's biggest cruise ships 'Anthem of seas' sailing across the oceans docked the harbor of Weymouth and Portland. The cruise appears to look like a giant city floating on water with thousands of people in it. The cruise made its first voyage out of, England, in February 2015 and cruised all around Europe and headed towards Bayonne, New Jersey and towards Canada. The $940 million ship is 1,141 feet long accommodating around 5000 people having 18 decks which includes 2,090 staterooms, a bumper car facility, a 30-foot rock climbing wall, simulated sky diving and an observation capsule that carries passengers 300 feet over the ocean.

According to Daily Progress, Portland is the place where huge number of cruise ships dock to the harbor. The peak time for the cruise ships to arrive Portland is September and October. As said by Jessica Grondin, the city's communications director, by end of the cruising season the city might host around 76 cruise ships with twenty eight ships in September and eighteen in October and expected passengers to enter the city and boom the local economy are up to 1, 00,000.

The passenger revealed the pleasant experience on such a giant. Two of the passengers, Jerry and Lynn Bowman of York, Pennsylvania, said the ship never feels crowded.

"It is so big you don't run into people walking around the deck," Lynn Bowman said.

"It is mind-boggling. It is totally high-tech," said Patricia Hohner of Piscataway, New Jersey.

The 'Anthem of Seas' is expected to visit Portland again this year, twice in September and once in October as reported by Portland Press herald.