This ship will have the same jaw-dropping awe that the newest casino-hotels in Las Vegas have.

This ship will have the same jaw-dropping awe that the newest casino-hotels in Las Vegas have. There will be so many things on board that you won't be able to get to it all on a 7-night cruise.

The town will never be the same. After the Tangiers, the big corporations took it all over. Today it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids play cardboard pirates, mommy and daddy dropped the house payments and Junior's college money on the poker slots.

In the old days, dealers knew your name, what you drank, what you played - today it's like checking into an airport. And if you order room service, you're lucky if you get it by Thursday.

Today it's all gone.

On the big ships, you've got a casino, musical shows, organized activities and games. But on this ship, if you want somebody to entertain you, it ain't going to happen.

I like to escape to hotels.

The landscape is best described as 'pedestrian hostile.' It's pointless to try to take a walk, so I generally just stay in the room and think about shooting myself in the head.