Oasis of the Seas

Oasis Has Arrived in Port Everglades!

Stay tuned for about as many pictures I can find of her. Carnival fanboys, it may be a good idea to turn your head today as this will dominate the news.

Oasis Terminal

The Sun Sentential features a picture of the massive 240,000 sq ft terminal that will house Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas 10,000+ embarking and debarking passengers every weekend. The embarking passengers are on the left, while…

Oasis Delayed

UPDATE 3:26 pm: Royal Caribbean confirmed that there has been damage to the lifeboats. It is said to be minor and will not cause further delays. _______________________________________________________________ As I reported on November 4th, the Oasis has encountered some very rough…

Oasis in Storm

Currently the Oasis of the Seas is crossing the Atlantic after the brief stop in England. While in transit to Florida, the ship is running into quite the Atlantic storm. I’ll let RCI CEO Richard Fain explain it; The one…

Oasis Mystery?

Check out his photo from Shipspotting. If you zoom in closely, you’ll find this: Looks like a hang-glider. Can it be used? Is it real? You be the judge!

Oasis Handover Signing Pics

  Here is the actual signing of the documents that transfer $1.4 Billion to STX Yards and a little ship called Oasis of the Seas to RCI. L to R (at table): Martin Landtman, CEO, STX Finland; Richard Fain, chairman…

Finland Says Goodbye Oasis

After a couple years of seeing the Oasis of the Seas dominate the town’s skyline, the residents of Turku, Finland say goodbye to the worlds largest cruise ship. Leaving this morning on her way to a temporary stop in England,…

[ARCHIVED] Oasis of the Seas

This is an archived post that appeared on CruiseInd on Oct 30, 2009 @ 10:35 Oasis/Project Genesis  Page 2. Oasis/Project Genesis  Page 1. Oasis Interiors 11/20/2009 Here are some slide shows based on the photos that were released today.  Royal…

Oasis Latest for 10/29/2009

UPDATE 4:56 pm: Oasis will anchor in the Solent, the waterway to Southampton, and will not dock at all in Southampton. What most likely will happen, is a ferry will meet the ship at anchor, embark the 300 crew and…

Oasis Photos

Check out my Oasis Page for the latest photos. These will be updated as I get them. Today it seems that every hour I am finding out more and more about the ship!

Oasis Delivered

UPDATE 1:25PM: Here is RCI’s press release of the event. Its a PDF that can be found here. I took the liberty of saving the PDF as images so they can be easier to view. See below: UPDATE 1:17PM: Some…

Oasis Info

For those unaware, Royal Caribbean’s Oasis will be officially “handed over” tomorrow. The Hand Over Ceremony, as its called, is a traditional ceremony where the line takes delivery of the ship from the ship yard. At this point, and while…

Oasis Inaugural Schedule

So here is what I have. It is still a work in progress as I figure more information out. If anyone can help out, I appreciate it. Changes will be made in bold. October 28, 2009 Turku, Finland RCI Takes…

RCI Most Likely Will Not Build Smaller

Well after a lot of feedback on my Carnival will Not go Bigger post, lets have a look at their rivals, Royal Caribbean International. Interestingly enough Adam Goldstein, Royal Caribbean’s President, posted some details about this exact theme earlier in…

Slow

So it is kind of a slow time in the industry. The Dream is delivered and I am still looking for a good walk through of it. The Oasis is back and settled in from the Sea trials. In fact…

Carnival Will (give up) Title of Largest Ship

Today, Carnival Corp’s President and C.E.O. Micky Arison stated that “Queen Mary 2 is probably the biggest ship we will ever build. Carnival Dream…is probably as large as we will build for Carnival.” Mr. Arison continued on to state that…

Oasis and Dream

I update some of CruiseInd’s ship pages: The Carnival Dream page now has photos of her pulling into Venice while still on her maiden voyage. The Oasis of the Seas page now has some external shots of her departing Turku…

Oasis Blue Hull Confirmed

Stay tuned for a shipyard report comming up shortly… UPDATE 3:25 pm: So today is day two of Oasis’s open house in the shipyard. Richard Fain,  Royal Caribbean’s CEO, went public with the lines plan to keep the hull baby…

Oasis Shipyard Report #9

Well this is more like a mega report if you haven’t seen it yet. Just click the link to see what I mean! Oasis of the Seas Page

Oasis Shipyard Report #8

I updated the Oasis page with new photos that show off the amazing interior. As always, click the pictures or use the link above to get to CruiseInd’s Oasis Page.

Photo of New Oasis Termainal

Here is a photo from Cruise Industry News, that shows a massive skylight  just inserted into the refurbished Terminal 18 in Port Everglades, Florida.