Cap Arcona Dining Room

The principal feature of the Cap Arcona's dining room was ten pairs of large windows, arranged five per side, which allowed natural light into the room and gave it a less confined feel was achieved in the (mostly) enclosed dining rooms aboard North Atlantic liners. The dining room measured 114.6' x 59' x 18'.  It was finished in candlewood and jacaranda, with green silk material stretched over it as wall covering. There were three large Gobelin tapestries, and a patterned carpet rather than the more commonly used linoleum floor covering. A menu insert from the summer of 1939 shows that as Germany prepared for war, the Cap Arcona adapted a "cash free society" rather like that used aboard 21st century cruise ships, to prevent the export of any German currency or gold ~ one turned one's money over at the start of the crossing and was given Cap Arcona currency to spend on board.