Cruise Line Companies came up with other ways to improve their service for new and old passengers who loves to take a cruise to relax and pamper themselves. As cruising is one of the fastest growing trend in tourism, the need for more cruise ships and crews is also climbing. But with this problematic economy, and the price tag a new cruise ship has, which is more or less a billion dollars, would it still be best to build new ships?

Well, most cruise companies have other solutions for this and that is to overhaul older vessels to make it look new for a fraction of the cost of building a new one. They've found out that renovating older ships are more financially sound for the company.

The cost of renovating a cruise ship is cheaper and faster than building a new one. Workers inspect, refurbish and repair ships from all of its sides and parts at a dry dock. It is a place where most people, even within the cruise industry has never seen. It may take hundreds of contractors to work alongside a cruise ship regular crew to work on a cruise ship that can take a few weeks to a few months.

Captain Hoyt, a pilot of Norwegian Spirit vessel, says that ?The capital investment on one of this ships is enormous... Even if you have the money to build a new ship, the availability of shipyards and the delay in time for the construction for one of these is quite a bit?.

"The whole point is to keep the quality of the ship up and this is our opportunity here to to do all the upgrades that will bring us up to the premier level of the rest of the fleet."

"I think when the passengers come on, the overall impact will be that of a new ship," Hoyt said. "That's what were shooting for."