ATLANTIC: 1982 - Deluxe pre-maiden voyage intro brochure Orient Line The breakfast

The breakfast

I've decided the Alcantara Suite on D Deck would be my abode of choice

The ship followed the old East Africa route through the Suez Canal with additional stops at Reunion Island

Holland America bought the ship for transatlantic service

a nursemaid looking in on a sleeping child

ATLANTIC: 1982 - Deluxe pre-maiden voyage intro brochure Orient Line The breakfastHome Lines: A sixteen page, pre maiden voyage brochure for the ATLANTIC issued in June 1981, almost a year before her maiden voyage. The brochure is filled with artist renderings. Hype in the introduction gushes, "The Crest of the New Wave in Cruising: Combining the talents of 7 leading architects and decorators from 4 different countries to mark the end of the standardized look in cruise ship design."Whatever their directions were, beauty apparently