As i have said it from the beginning that the Honfleur-route will go to Melilla it is to see that this ferry is much much much too big sadly. Only ca. 20 cars and 8 trailer onboard. Most cars only with single-driver also only. No foot-passengers.
Shows the totally nonsense of wrong state-subventions. Balearia will get many Millions bonus-payment if this is the best ferry to Melilla this year. So other routes are year-around very full or overloaded as f.ex. from Cadiz and Huelva to Canarias where often all cabins are booked already and sometimes is also no space for a car anymore.
Much better would be a "pay no tax anymore programm" as it was in the past for North-Norway if you move from there from Oslo.
So Tromsö, Bodö, Narvik etc. are today much bigger and more attractive than 50, 60, 70 years ago.
In Canarias are many big hotels with 800 + x rooms - give TUI etc. "30 years pay no tax" - then they will built very fast a lot of biggest hotels also in Melilla, with all positive results as 1000s of new jobs also for construction-companies, taxidrivers, busdrivers, souvenier-sellers, restaurants, cafes, watersports, boat-excursions, supermarkets, shopping-centers etc. .
In Tenerife you can book travelling on a big ship of the Norwegians Vikings, a lot of biggest sailing catamarans, Fred Olsen has just now ordered 2 more excursions-catamarans, glass-floor-boats, submarine-boats for tourists, dolphin-/whale-watching-tours etc. . But nothing is in Melilla. There are no really holiday-hotels with pool ! No touristic infrastructure, then nobody is coming there, no jobs, nothing.
And a new very nice big comfortable ferry will change nothing on all these points.
The different comfortable lounges and spaces onboard Honfleur / Rusadir are well to see because of nearly complete empty (2 or 3-times are single-persons to see !). Comfortable empty sundeck with sunbeds, chairs, tables, wind-protecting-glass-walls and waterproof blue "cruise-ship-mats" partly on the floors. So Balearia is doing all for to have the best ferry there. But restaurants and bars seems to be (partly) closed because of there are no people onboard ? There are closed shutters to see.
And much too much staff and crew for marshalling etc. on the decks !
All paid from the Spanish tax-payers !
Very very sadly - this really comfortable big Ropax-ferry would be very well for a lot of big ferry-routes in Europe - and is here now nearly unused operating. Think the newest biggest high-speed-train would used for to operate in the last poorest small-town in the most behind corner of a country (f.ex. to Zittau in Germany...) - and other big-city-train-connections are overloaded often - this is what Honfleur / Rusadir here is doing !
Only to hope that they will move next year this ferry to any bigger route... .