Exploring the Persian Gulf Luxury Boat

Costa Atlantica cruise ship is like a floating five-star hotel. In luxury, invited to explore the beauty and exotic country in the Persian Gulf.

Persian Gulf region was awarded a beautiful coastal natural charm sandwiched between desert and barren mountains. Travel by cruise ship in the Persian Gulf region was rife offer. Operators world-class yacht racing win European and American markets. They invite us to explore the land of the sheikh. One operator Costa Cruise is headquartered in Genoa, Italy. The company operates at least two yacht in the Persian Gulf, the Costa Classica and Costa Atlantica.

Costa Atlantica is a luxury yacht shared floating five-star hotel with 12 deck. These middle-class cruise ships including one owned luxurious ship Costa Cruise. As tall as 20-storey buildings with a length of nearly 300 meters, this ship has facilities similar to modern superblock in Jakarta, which include hotels, shopping malls and other entertainment facilities. Created in 2000 in the shipyard in Finland, the ship has 1057 cabins which about 80 percent have a balcony.

You can enjoy anything on cruise ships. Want to enjoy the atmosphere of a cafe in Venice, please come to the Florian Cafe supposedly designed similar to the atmosphere of the famous cafe in Venice.

Want to swim, there are 4 pools facility complete with a jacuzzi. Want to exercise, there is a jogging track, a fitness room and a spa. Visitors who bring children to enjoy the rides water games. In addition, means of entertainment, such as theater, children's playground, or casinos, also there.

Costa Atlantica is like a ship dedicated to artists and renowned Italian filmmaker, Federico Fellini (1920-1993). A total of 12 decks named after the title of the film director Fellini ever made. Call deck 1 named Luci del varietà and deck 2 is called La Dolce Vita, Fellini's work in 1960, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg. On deck 2 which is the entertainment deck mounted posters and photos of the film La Dolce Vita and the original sketch from the movie that made the artist Milo Manara.

Indonesian crew

The vessel is designed with a touch of art works of Italian artists and designers. The floor and walls of the room decorated with marble, glass accents and ceramic mosaic native Italy.

On the ship, you can enjoy delicious free food 24 hours at the restaurant. There are six restaurants on the Costa Atlantica, both models of buffet or a la carte. During the journey, the passenger got dinner guests in the form of a gala dinner. Even so, if you want a buffet dinner with a variety of menu offerings, is also provided.

Pesantap served by a friendly crew. From the ship's 900 crew mostly from Asia and 30-40 percent are people of Indonesia. Arso Wardoyo, restaurant waiters from Depok, West Java, Indonesia admitted many workers are being crew on a cruise ship. In all of the ship's crew must have Costa Group of Indonesia. Most work in restaurants, bars, chefs, and others become mechanical or navigational interpreter.

"If you take cruises do not hesitate to eat as much, please choose which restaurant to any menu. Here also many Indonesian crew who can provide a special menu, like fried rice or boiled noodles, "said Arso nearly two years working here.

Overland tour

Travel Costa Atlantica starting from Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and then down the other cities in Oman for seven days in early January. Cool weather with an average temperature of 20 degrees celsius abolish the Middle East suggest that hot and arid. Especially when we see the charm of towns laid out nicely with trees and colorful flowers.

Regular cruises sail during the night and the next morning back in town tourist destination. Various tour packages offered land at the tour boats. Of the seven day trip in the Persian Gulf, Costa Atlantica layover between Muscat and other cities Khasab in Oman and Dubai, Fujairah and Abu Dhabi in the UAE.

Muscat is the capital of Oman, the kingdom at the end of the Persian Gulf front led by Sultan Qaboos bin Said. The city offers a unique life of the modern Middle East without losing the feel of old. According to the tour guide, Muscat in the last five years has changed from the capital city of the kingdom became one tourist destination in the Persian Gulf. Beginning with host Asian Beach Games II in 2010, the city was able to attract millions of tourists every year.

Besides Muscat, Oman appeal the other is the natural charm of Khasab, in the form of canyons that flank the bay in the Strait Hormus. The area is known as the Omani Fjord has a natural charm similar to the mountains and deserts in the Grand Canyon, Colorado, United States. In the canyons formed by the removal of the seabed and cleaved by the bay since millions of years ago.

Proceed to the UAE, stopover in Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Fujairah. Dubai is a city that represents the attitude of openness of the UAE nation with all advances in technology and culture to become one of the heart of the economy in the Middle East. While Abu Dhabi as the capital city now also transformed into a multinational open. All of the largest, highest, most beautiful, grandest, most luxurious, fastest, and other ter nearly two cities can be found in the main this.

While Fujairah, as the first natural port city in the UAE, has now begun to be abandoned along with the progress in Dubai. Here, however, we can still see traditional village atmosphere is maintained and a tourist attraction.

Asia Markets

Decline of the global economy, especially in the Americas and Europe, make cruise operators began looking for other markets.

Desire Costa Cruise solicit passengers Asia based on the fact that stable economic growth in the region.

The presence of the Costa Atlantica will open the lines of Asia in May 2013 shows the seriousness of the work on the Asian market.

The rise of the invasion of cruise ships have been captured Singapore in Asia by opening a special dock cruise ships last year. No wonder if almost all major carriers now have a path from Singapore to other cities in Southeast Asia and East Asia.

Indonesia, which is almost 70 percent of its territory oceans can only be a market for this business. Even if there are cruise ships that stop by, it was a small class because of the constraints can not be a shallow dock disandari large cruise ships.

Director of Marketing Costa Cruise in Asia, Lee Sau Yan acknowledged, the Asian market is still huge and a future cruise ship business. "The presence Costa Atlantica, dubbed" Venice of the Sea 'will certainly attract people who want to cruise in Asia feel of Italy, "he said.