Cruise facts and surprises

We'll bet they didn't know: • 152 cruises are booked every hour in the UK • The average ’Round the World’ cruise ship will consume 840 bottles of vodka, 312 bottles of gin, and 285 bottles of Scotch as it travels round the globe • The average cruise ship gets through 26,300 teabags and 750 litres of ice cream per week, but you can double the ice cream quota for Disney vessels and any cruise ship during the school holidays • The average concierge on a luxury line will walk around eight miles a day –equivalent to running 11 marathons a month • The average cruise ship sails an annual distance equivalent to sailing six times round the world • Around 400 bottles of champagne are consumed every week on a cruise liner.