Chapter 52: World affairs are like chess, but victory or defeat
The casino is in the middle of the 4th floor, so Qin Ren just saw it and did not participate. The principle of the casino is to spend money to buy chips. You can continue to buy after the chips are used up, but there is no refund. As long as the boat is on the high seas, the casino will not be closed.
The cruise ship's own products booth is on the stern of the 4th floor, and it displays and sells cruise-related products and Disney dolls. The cruise-themed items include various cups, various clothes, various model toys and refrigerator stickers, pens, flashlights and other gadgets.
Royal Avenue is located in the middle of the 5th floor of the ship, and it holds various themed parades and photography activities from time to time. It is lined with duty-free shops, selling watches, bags, gold jewelry, jewelry, Swarlow, clothing, etc., which is similar to the airport.
The business center is on the stern of the 6th floor, where you can book your next voyage here. The prepayment of $100 is $30,50,100 can be obtained according to the length of the travel days, which can be used to charge any purchases for cruise ships except for ship tickets. It seems that you can pay up to $300 or $400.
No matter who comes to your next trip, there is no time limit. In addition, the special benefit for Chinese tourists is that with this advance payment, you can book other tourist routes such as Europe or America that are not open to Chinese tourists.
The library is on the stern of the 7th floor, and there are not many books. Some of the books here are provided on the boat with signs, while others are left here for tourists who may have bought them at the airport and read them on the boat. Some people who enjoy reading on the sofa can also take the books anywhere.
The network center is at the 8th floor stern. There is a special system. It doesn’t seem to charge for sending emails or something on a daily basis, but it only needs to have the designated email address that Westerners are used to. You need to enter the room card number to browse the web and watch news or play games. There are wifi and telephones on the ship. Satellite network and telephones are really expensive.
The swimming pool is in the middle of the 11th floor boat. There are no children playing in the water. The swimming pool is filled with jogging tracks marked with meters, lounge chairs, hamburger stalls, water bars, bars, ice cream bars, and welcome guests, horse riding dances, square dance parties by the pool. They have organized water polo competitions between crew members and tourists, dodge ball competitions, and sandbag throwing competitions.
When crew members lose the game, they pretend to blame each other, splash water on each other, or imitate seals when picking up balls, which is quite funny.
The fitness center is on the bow of the 11th floor. There is a large row of treadmills and various fitness equipment, as well as a room for exercise. The room for exercise is also a bicycle room. The treadmills seem to be less good than the equipment in the center of the district venue, at least at the same level. It seems that they have not been updated for a long time.
Let me complain here, in China, at least in Beijing, if fitness values equipment and risks, it is best to choose public units such as venue centers, because private enterprises need benefits. With the fitness awareness, income level and government subsidies in today's society, it is difficult for private enterprises to update their equipment. After collecting fitness cards and then waiting to run away and go bankrupt is the normal ending of the story.
The government pays to replace the equipment in public and can afford such a cheap fitness card. It depends on your opinion if you value service or people. There is also a jacuzzi pool inside, which is the only jacuzzi pool indoors. There are people who enjoy themselves on the boat while insisting on fitness, but not many.
The spa is on the bow of the 12th floor. The prices are similar to those of China and even cheaper, but the cost of manual service is much higher than that of China. It is a prominent feature of Western developed countries, and it is also the same on ships run by Westerners.
The youth disco and arcade room are at the stern of the 12th floor. Qin Ren visited it once in the evening and there were really many Western children making friends in the dim disco. There is also a kindergarten here, where children can be stored here. The crew will organize the children to play, and even dress up as pirates to take them to other places on the boat to play.
I don't know if the charge is charged. The children on the boat also have some privileges: they can book free breakfast with Disney characters and get a free lottery. The sports park has a table tennis table, a mini plastic field with a soccer basket and row, a mini roller skating field, a mini golf course and a rock climbing wall.
The rock climbing wall can be experienced for free. Mini golf is said to be charged, but it can be played casually when it is not open, so Qin Ren doesn't know if anyone is playing the so-called opening hours. The Seven Star Card Room is on the 14th floor, you can play mahjong, poker, or borrow it back to the guest room. It costs $10 per hour, and there are really people playing it.
The Church of Holy Light is on the stern of the 15th floor. Qin Ren does not understand Protestantism and does not know if anyone will come to the church during holidays. However, this church can hold romantic activities such as sea weddings. The rest are various bars. The bow of the boat on the 5th floor has a lotus lounge, which is a Buddhist style that Westerners believe. There are some Buddha statues inside, and the door is the Terracotta Warriors and Horses.
This place is positioned as a relatively large conference room, such as prize drawing, member gathering, towel folding interest training, ballroom dance training, and Chinese music dance, all of which are held here. The legendary nightclub with dragons on the bow of the boat on the third floor. The dragon is a Western concept dragon. It feels like it is prepared for night owls and is very dark.
The karaoke events, bachelor parties, disco parties, and dance parties held here all start at 7 o'clock and continue until late at night. There are Scoono Piano Bar and Bolero Leisure Bar on both sides of the casino in the middle of the 4th floor. Scoono is positioned as a puzzle, with piano, guitar string singing and performances from time to time, and can organize puzzles on various themes such as movies, songs, logos, etc.
Carry out various puzzle games such as Sudoku, treasure hunt, Nintendo video games, and hold various trainings such as towel folding, origami, Chinese, Tiffany boxes. Polero is positioned as Latin enthusiastic. At night, singers will sing Shakira or Raydi songs and organize tourists to dance.
There is a Sky Bar on the 12th floor, which provides drinks and entertainment for the swimming pool service. From time to time, singers or bands have performed. Horseback riding dances and welcome parties have been organized. There is a Viking Crown Lounge Ellington Bar at the 14th floor, which is quite large, has held karaoke competitions and Chinese dance parties. It is also quite dark, and is also prepared for night owls.
Finally, let’s talk about the crew, and I think there are many Chinese people. The managers on the boat are mostly white. The captain is an old man. The entertainment director is not small, but he really works hard. He must be hosted every large show, usually shuttles to various locations and participates in the shooting of commemorative CDs. During emergency drills and the morning trip, Qin Ren encountered him.
The other entertainment staff on the boat were also very good. There are artists from China, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, and Japan. Everyone is a versatile person and is usually distributed in various bars to perform on-site performances. During the prime time, they gather in the Coral Theater to perform collectively, sing musicals, sing singles, dancing and even perform figure skating. These are all people.
The director's partner - the entertainment manager is a young girl from China. There are more than one Chinese tourists on the boat. It is reported that there are more than a thousand Australians, South Korea and Japan, and there are less than fifty people. According to the room waiter, the next Spring Festival period of the next boat, there are many Chinese who speak Chinese and rich Chinese, so it is natural for Chinese to be the second-in-command of the entertainment department to be the Chinese.
Another Chinese on the ship, who is the leading Chinese, is the Sales Manager of Voyage Holidays, who is responsible for attracting tourists to book the next voyage. She is also a girl who grew up in China and has gone abroad to work hard at a young age. Qin Ren felt that Chinese accounted for about two-thirds of the Chinese, like the service desk, and the rest should be Indians, scattered in restaurants and bars.
Qin Ren's room attendant was a Changchun man. He was in his early thirties and was once a teacher. He was very enthusiastic. He introduced a lot of things to Qin Ren and asked Qin Ren at least once a day what Qin Ren needed. Qin Ren did not hang the sign to clean the room and cleaned the room. One day he even put a devil fish on a towel for Qin Ren.
Later, I heard him chatting with Westerners and Qin Ren and learned that he put on various patterns for white customers with towels every day. Because Westerners attach great importance to these, they would thank him for this and even pay more tips, while Chinese people do not have the habit of paying tips.
I know from my words that he likes pure Western routes such as North America because there are a lot of tips; I don’t like to serve Indians because Indians are relatively unhygienic and pile things up randomly, making it difficult to clean.
The crew has exclusive satellite network and telephone prices on the ship, as well as their own internal convenience store. The crew can roughly control their working hours, and they can be reimbursed by the air ticket company at the gathering place. They can rest for half a year, but they should not have a salary during the rest. However, the waiter should earn a lot, such as the guest room man, whose wife also bought a house in Singapore on another ship.
Qin Ren ate a self-service buffet and was on a cruise. When he was tired, he returned to his room and wanted to watch TV while taking a shower. However, the TV was controlled and he could only play English safety emergency knowledge over and over again. Fortunately, two suitcases arrived one after another, packed their luggage, checked the guide and recommendations for sightseeing on the shore, and then went out for a walk again if he had nothing to do.
This time I went out for a walk, I happened to see the 5th floor service desk queuing. I had read the guide before and knew that I had started to sign up for the group. There were two teams, one long and the other short, but in general, it was not short, so Qin Ren lined up with the shorter team first.
However, the consultant was very busy and he replied several times that he always "please queue first". He was in a daze and was in front, and the consultant began to answer Qin Ren's question seriously. Qin Ren's short queue was mainly for consulting services, while the long queue was mainly for booking upstream of the shore. Many of the people queuing this queue rented wireboards and tied credit cards.
Qin Ren also started to bind his credit card when he arrived at the service desk. The service staff was a little girl, very enthusiastic. He did his best to answer Qin Ren's various questions about whether he was adjusting or not, and even took the initiative to remind him. Finally, he gave Qin Ren a business card.
The most important thing is that she also took the initiative to help Qin Ren handle the shore sightseeing tour, saving Qin Ren the time to queue up again. She was afraid that Qin Ren would not understand the group tickets, so she loaded them in envelopes and wrote key information such as gathering time and location in Chinese. In short, the waiters on the boat were very good.
Let’s talk about shore sightseeing. Whether it is a room waiter or a service desk consultant, the results after consultation are: “Anyway, I like to go ashore and play by myself. There are many drivers at the pier who speak Chinese. You can go wherever you want, you can look at it and choose.” They are all very considerate of Qin Ren.
The materials for shore sightseeing provided on the boat were sent to Qin Ren by the room waiter. He also specially gave Qin Ren an English version and reminded Qin Ren to have more options in the English version. The Chinese version only provides some classic routes, and almost every route will have its label, such as the most popular, the most value-for-one, the most suitable for families.
There are more than 20 US dollars to nearly 100 US dollars, and the children are discounted. Qin Ren chose the Kuala Lumpur shopping group the first day. Because he knew before, there were no attractions worth seeing here. After reading the introduction, he felt that there were many places to go to, so he could have a rough and comprehensive perception of the Malay Capital.
The next day, Qin Ren chose to visit Langkawi because he saw the aquarium, rice fields and Malay crafts. As of now, Qin Ren's long-distance tours have chosen places with sea. He went to an aquarium every time, and once, in addition to the aquarium, he also went to the zoo for a day.
By the way, while waiting in line, Qin Ren did two things. One was to fill out the application form to register as a member of the cruise ship. It is said that he would receive a confirmation letter when he returned to China; the other was to find a brief description of the cruise ship next to the service desk, and the page contained a map of the cruise ship.
This thing is so useful, you can compare it with the daily guide. Qin Ren can use this picture to avoid going around the wrong way. The promotional materials and application forms are available in various languages, reflecting the usual meticulousness of the cruise ship.
It was not long before the life-saving drill time. Everyone was gathered in different areas according to the room card information, and the crew members demonstrated how to wear life jackets. Later, Qin Ren saw their performance, one was a piano player in the entertainment department and the other was a singer in the entertainment department.
After the emergency drill was completed, when I returned to my room, the TV finally got normal. The TV channels on the ship were similar to those on Singapore, with about twenty. There were four Chinese channels, including one, one specializing in charging activities such as on board gambling, spa, and ngo, and one specializing in selling on board jewelry, watches, paintings and other consumer goods.
There is a foreign movie frequency and mtv channel with Chinese subtitles. There may be 5 channels, and jewelry and painting sellers may also be different channels. In short, Chinese channels are all programs that encourage consumption 24 hours a day, and only programs that encourage consumption are Chinese channels.
I don’t know if all the TVs on the ship are designed like this, or if only Chinese people will see such TV programs, Westerners will have programs that encourage consumption in English. If so, the TVs on the ship are really personalized. I remember that other channels also have video channels for the main entertainment activities on the ship the night before.
From here you can find that the wonderful programs you see in the theater are put on TV, but that's it. There is also the English scenery introduction channel for the travel location the next day, the English channel that promotes marine environmental protection and charity, bbc, English sports channel, 2 English movie channels, 2 English comedy TV series channels, and 3 English cartoon channels.
There are also one channel in Japanese, Korean and Arabic, and the English emergency escape channel has always existed. In short, the remaining channels are all in English, and the children's needs are fully considered. Tourists from other countries have also considered it, and the consumption needs of Chinese tourists have been fully considered.
Qin Ren watched TV for a while and went down to the fifth floor. There were crowds of people. After watching it, he felt that it was a cartoon character dressed in a foreigner, riding on stilts, rowing a dry boat and dancing yangko. Qin Ren watched for a while and tried another new thing. The meal was very long. He hurried to the Coral Theater just after he finished his dessert. The opening welcome dance had already begun. Fortunately, he was quick to be wise.
The program performed that night was brought by two Chinese acrobats, a man and a woman. After watching the program, Qin Ren went to the buffet restaurant to add some food, fetch water in the evening, and then went to the duty-free shop on Royal Avenue. After listening to the singer performance on Royal Avenue, he went back to bed.
Lying on the bed, Qin Ren silently practiced the top secret martial arts Qinglian Sword Song, his true power flowed constantly, constantly strengthening himself. The divine sword Qinglian didn't have a word, and the material-based beasts were all a group of taciturn guys.
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The next day, Qin Ren had dinner and came to the meeting place Coral Theater. By calling the number, he quickly got ashore. There were many taxi drivers on the pier soliciting customers in English and Chinese. Qin Ren successfully found the travel bus. The travel bus was as cold as the Singapore taxi, and other tourists protested. Later, they found out that it was the highest temperature of the bus air conditioner.
The tour guide in the car was an old man. It was really not easy to take Qin Ren to the streets and alleys on this day. Kuala Lumpur was very traffic jam that day. It is said that because the Sunnis in Malaysia needed to pray in the temple that day. Finally, they arrived in the city and stopped for a while and looked at the cultural landscapes such as ** Square, Municipal Building, and Cathedral in Kuala Lumpur.
Then go to shopping places such as Central Art Plaza, Centang Street and other shopping places to experience local markets and snacks. The markets in Kuala Lumpur are similar to the small commodity markets that can be found everywhere in China. There are small commodities of various styles in China, India, and Islam, and you can bargain. After visiting the big shopping malls, go to Lotte Department Store first.
However, some people in the group were dissatisfied and felt that the big shopping mall was not worth going to. After negotiation with the tour guide, they also canceled the next big shopping mall shopping site, so they wanted to go to the Petroleum Petroleum Tower, the tallest building in the world. However, they were probably disappointed later - I don’t know if it was because they offended the tour guide or because they had arranged it like this.
A long way from the Shuangfeng Tower Building, Qin Ren was parked and took photos with Shuangfeng as the background. The weather on that day seemed to be in the capital, and the Shuangfeng could not be seen clearly with the naked eye. On the way back, Qin Ren was tired. When he returned to the pier, he found that the pier was also quite standardized. There was a wall at the door, which marked the locations to Kuala Lumpur in English and Chinese in detail.
There are different seats and reference prices for taxis of different levels. Later, I found that Malaysia's ports have such a wall. After I came back, I also found that there was a free wifi lounge at Port Klang Pier, which is unique to Port Klang.
After I came back, I thought about the tour of this day and thought it was quite worth it. First of all, as a habit, Qin Ren would definitely feel regretful if he didn't get ashore. If he looked for a driver and could go to Kuala Lumpur, it would probably be based on the traffic jam today, and the air conditioner could run to a considerable height. The most important thing is that the distance between the attractions in Kuala Lumpur is not short.
And in general, there is nothing to visit, so you probably have to charter a car to play well. In that case, compared with the group tour, not only is it less than a tour guide's explanation, but the price is probably not much different. There is no need to worry about where to go for a self-guided tour. There are exquisite descriptions in the daily guide of the cruise.
Chapter completed!