Six days afloat everglades7/14/2023 ![]() ![]() The Oasis, which starts its inaugural voyage on December 5, was six years in the making and arrives at a time when cruise lines are cutting rates to fill berths. One of its many bars, the Rising Tide, floats up and down between three decks, while a touring company performs the Broadway musical “Hairspray” in the 1,380-seat theatre. Passengers can harness themselves onto the “zip line” and soar across the ship above an open-air atrium nine decks high and lined with balconied cabins. ZIP LINEĪn amphitheatre surrounds a deep-diving pool on the stern, where high-divers and synchronized swimmers perform. It has rock-climbing walls, a basketball court, an ice skating rink, a carousel with hand-carved wooden animals, a shopping promenade lined with cafes and bars, cantilevered whirlpools overlooking the sea and a Central Park with 12,000 live plants and trees. The 225,282-gross-ton ship has 16 passenger decks and can carry 6,292 passengers plus 2,165 crew. Oasis is a floating resort that eclipses the condo towers it sails past at its new home, Port Everglades in southeast Florida. The $1.4 billion (843 million pounds) Oasis of the Seas, the world’s biggest cruise ship, enters service during the industry’s worst year in decades but is so exuberantly excessive that Fain predicts it will be profitable from day one. We build large because we’ve had so many ideas they simply don’t fit in a smaller hull,” Fain said. “I’ve never been a believer in building it big just for size’s sake. Then he donned swim trunks, jumped on a boogie board and challenged fellow executives to a contest in one of the Oasis’ two FlowRider pools that simulate surfing. ![]() The Oasis of the Seas is seen during a media tour at its home port in Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida November 20, 2009. ![]()
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