When the drastic makeover is over, the ship will have spent 36 days in dry dock in Cadiz, including 24 hours at the start to empty the dock and 12 hours at the end to flood the dock.
477 days’ work in just over a month
A collective effort of 11,460 dry dock working hours will have been put into preparing the ship, with the help of 630 contractors, 193 technical crew, 120 yard personnel staff, a team of 12 from technical projects, as well as hotel staff and their additional working hours to get the ship in running order. It amounts to approximately 477 days’ work in just over a month.
During the dry dock, the hotel director will have walked on average 19,339 steps onboard a day and a total of 109,672 meals will have been served to teams onboard.
Materials
Multiple materials and products will be used to revamp Marella Voyager, including 37,600 sq m of carpet – enough to cover five standard size football pitches – and 18,500l of paint to revamp the hull, which is enough to fill 14 six-seater hot tubs.
6,000 mtr of technical cabling is to be installed, excluding for IT equipment – nearly four miles’ worth, or the distance between London King’s Cross and London Victoria.
70,000 tiles will be fixed to the walls, floors and counters in new food hall venue, The Kitchens, which is being kitted out with 20t of new catering equipment - about the same weight as three African Elephants.
Menus and venues
There are a total of 150 new dishes that will be introduced to passengers onboard Marella Voyager across its 17 food venues, of which 25% of the new menus will feature vegetarian dishes.
Over 250 hours have been spent developing the new menus.
Entertainment
The entertainment cast will spend a total of 586 hours, or approximately 24 days, rehearsing to learn 12 new production shows before they board the ship.
Over 500 bespoke costumes have been designed and created exclusively for the shows – about 16 times more than a fashion designer would show on a runway at New York Fashion Week and over 850 individual tracks of instruments have been arranged and recorded, equating to 38,250 minutes of recording time.
The entertainment team will host an array of interactive activities and performances onboard the vessel, and have already curated 300 ‘Teatime Teaser’ quiz questions, ready to put passengers to the test.
With 900 seats, Marvella Voyager has the largest capacity of seating in a Broadway Show Lounge of the whole Marella fleet.
Inaugural sailing
Marella Voyager is the fifth vessel in the fleet and has the highest gross tonnage.
The vessel embarks on its first Western Mediterranean sailing from Palma, Majorca on June 3.
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