What ideas do you have for repurposing cruise ships?

Mini luxury boats. Under 50 people. So as to limit those infected if another Covid19 comes back. A Covid20.

Also I can see the massive cruse ships as a luxury doomsday bug out location for the super rich. For when the SHTF like a Covid20 or civil unrest, economic collapse.

They can dock as luxury hotels in cities that don’t have enough rooms.

Sink them & allow them to become a new coral reef!!! Beautify the ocean in place of carrying a pandemic to a new area!!!

A cruise ship themed restaurant and resort like hotel. Would do well in a ocean themed place with big population, or filled with tourists.

I don’t know, how about another misguided idea about where to put the homeless?

I like @LadyMarissa‘s idea. Cruises don’t really appeal to me. A small luxury cruise maybe but the “floating city” disease-bags would do better as coral reefs. :P

Floating schools.

Offices for international businesses.

Server farms for Google and Amazon.

Prisons.

Trash collectors.

Oh a medical ship would be nice.

Domiciles for the homeless. The ideal solution—out of sight-out of mind.

Restaurants, nightclubs, casino and other facilities, docked in a harbor as @mazinger suggested might be something that would be a novelty. It could be “pay one price” to come aboard, maybe a high price which would include price fixe or buffet dinner and admission to the bars, and of course drinks and gambling are extra. This way the revenue is controlled at the gate so the wait staff doesn’t have to deal with getting payment.

Bundle the Kardashians aboard & set them adrift.
Shit floats!

Floating condos. The ultimate gated community.

Send them to places that have devastated by hurricanes. For people who lost their homes. And use some for beforehand to rescue those and move large amounts of people and pets to a safe area.
And for those after, they can create a small area to care for people’s medical needs. But not a full functioning hospital. Just for scrapes bruises, colds, or to hand out meds for asthma or insulin for diabetics. Stuff like that. A general physician or two.

Offshore warehousing
Naval retirement communities
Anchor them in the gulf of Mexico, so when global warming melts both poles. That way when the Mississippi River floods across a dozen states, there will be rescue ships ready to pick up the people who didn’t have the sense to move beforehand.