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(7) Dining saloon
Area should be based on the numbers eating at one sitting. Where large numbers
are involved two sittings are normal. Areas per person should be about:
1 st class: 1.5 m2 for large numbers to 2.3 m2 for small numbers
Tourist: 1.3 m2 for large numbers to 1.6 m2 for small numbers.
Modern cruise liners:
“Tropicale”: 1.44 m2
“Fantasy”: 1.66 m2

(8) Lounges and bars
Base on aggregate seating required. Usually 100% in tourist and in excess of 100%
for 1st Class
Area per seat:
lounges: 2 m2
libraries: 3 m2
Modern cruise liners:
“Tropicale”: seats for 72% at 1.42 m2 per seat plus 170 seats = 12% in
discotheque at 1.47 m2 per seat
“Jubilee”: seats for 65% in lounges plus 9% in discotheque at an
average of I .48 m2 per seat

(9) Shops, bureau, cinema, gymnasium
Shops, bureau: 15-20 m2.
Cinema: 20 m2 for stage + 0.8 m2 per seat.

(10)-(12) Captain’s and officers’ cabins (excluding bath or toilet)
Captain and Chief Engineer: 30 m2 + Bath 4 m2 or toilet 3 m2
Chief Officer, 2nd Engineer, Chief Purser: 14 m2 + toilet 3 m2
Other officers: 8.5 m2 often with toilet 3 m2

(13) Ofices
Captain, Engineers, Chief Steward: each about 7.5 m2.
Large ships: add Chef, Provision master, Laundryman.

(14) Passages, stairs
40% of sum of items (lo)-( 13)

(1.5) Officers lavatories
Number of fittings usually in excess of DOT rules. Area per fitting as in item (6).