We are passengers aboard trains, buses, planes,in cars and on board ferries so why do we suddenly become guests aboard ships?
How are the 'passengers' categorised aboard the likes of the Queen Mary 2 when she is in trans Atlantic service. Are the people who are travelling just one way across the Atlantic referred to as passengers because they have booked passage aboard a ship on a line voyage and yet those people who are making the round trip and therefore using the ship as a cruise vessel are they referred to as guests?
We are guests in land-based hotels, resorts and other forms of overnight accommodation.