As they consider the Big Three amenities (gyms, roof decks and playrooms), buildings also address the ever-present desire for more storage.
If you book a suite or into The Haven, you get all five amenities, which can be a $2,800 value on some sailings.
Low, medium and high amenity levels were defined in terms of having either one, two or all three amenities.
In this paper we focus on six amenities: respondents were asked 'How well-placed do you think your home is for'- 'general food stores', 'primary schools', 'secondary schools', 'libraries', 'chemists or pharmacies', 'public recreation or sports facilities'.
Moreover, the form of transport to each of the three amenities did not affect agreement (i.e. walking versus cars/vans, taxis or public transport) (true for straight-line or network buffers) (not shown, available on request).
ArcMap was used to map the postal locations of 'Transport, Health and Well-being 2010 Study' respondents (n = 1760), and the six amenities, and the presence/absence of each of them within various straight-line and network buffers around respondents' homes was recorded.
We compared agreement between those who made use of the three amenities, and those who did not, and for the former we compared those who walked to the amenities and those who used other means of transport (i.e. car, taxi, public transport).
Access to amenities was measured by asking respondents how well placed their home is for ten amenities, i.e., getting to work, job opportunities, food stores with fresh fruit and vegetables, your doctor's surgery, the nearest hospital with a casualty department, schools, libraries, public transport, general shopping, and leisure facilities.
Therefore, pharmacies, primary schools and libraries, showed the highest occurrence of fair/moderate Kappa values, and those in the Q3 area deprivation sub group, and those who resided less than 2 years in their current home showed the highest number of fair values (five and four amenities respectively).
We found that those who had lived in their current home for less than 2 years showed better agreement for four of the six amenities studied; this contrasts to previous studies which found that newcomers took a longer time to orientate themselves with neighbourhood features [ 13, 27].
