[OmniTours]

World’s Busiest Cruise Port Welcomes Huge Oasis Class Ship

Port Canaveral has officially welcomed Royal Caribbean International’s Allure of the Seas as the ship has repositioned to the central Florida homeport to offer short Bahamas getaways for the next nine months.

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[Arctic Fox]

Originally Posted by OmniTours

World’s Busiest Cruise Port Welcomes Huge Oasis Class Ship

Looks more like a cheese-grater than a ship

[Stu from NYC]

We were on it last year and found it to be a very well run ship that despite it size lines were a minimum

[Two Bills]

Horses for courses.
Would be a total nightmare for me to be cooped up with all those people.
Be like paying to go to prison!

[Kelevision]

Originally Posted by OmniTours

World’s Busiest Cruise Port Welcomes Huge Oasis Class Ship

Port Canaveral has officially welcomed Royal Caribbean International’s Allure of the Seas as the ship has repositioned to the central Florida homeport to offer short Bahamas getaways for the next nine months.

CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

Port Canaveral is the busiest Port in the World? Crazy since most leave out of Ft Lauderdale or Miami.

[RICH1]

short Bahama cruises are full of Entry Level Cruisers, that don’t adhere to the Dress Attire.. purple swimsuits in the MDR will be the entertainment for the evening ( I will pay a quarter more and sail with my people)

[dewilson58]

So you regular cruisers...................are the ships getting "too large"????

[manaboutown]

How many lifeboats does this ship have? I can't imagine how long it would take to abandon ship if necessary although I am certain there are laws, rules and regulations that govern safety standards and the ship meets them. It just looks kind of scary to me due to the large number of passengers it carries. I hope no one yells FIRE!!! in the wrong place at the right time and hundreds of people try to crowd through a single door.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

So you regular cruisers...................are the ships getting "too large"????

I am not fond of the supersized ships at all. I don't like the hall in front of the elevators jam-packed with people trying to get onto the next one, I'm not fond of having to walk the length of almost three football fields just to get to dinner. Not a fan of seeing 300 lounge chairs surrounding the pool, each of them with a towel on them but only 10 people actually in the pool or at the bar, to remind me of just how many people are inconsiderate and insist on "reserving" chairs that they have no intention of using. Not fond of having to wait 3-people deep just for a seat at the bar. Definitely not happy with wanting to go dancing, the same moment that 600 other people decide they want to go dancing, in a disco that's only built to handle 300 dancers. I don't even bother with the casinos.

I like the smaller ships because there's more a sense of intimacy, less of a sense of a floating shopping mall during the x-mas rush. That also means less stress on the cook staff which results in better quality food.

It's also quicker on and off the ship when it's smaller, so you have more time to spend wherever it is your ship is sailing.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by dewilson58

So you regular cruisers...................are the ships getting "too large"????

There is an advantage to bigger ships, more stuff to do. RCCL is a bit too large for us at 6000 plus passengers but we do like the larger Princess ships of just under 4000.

[Topspinmo]

I would rather spend my money on evangelists, at least I get utopia pray instead packed in like sardines.

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

I am not fond of the supersized ships at all. I don't like the hall in front of the elevators jam-packed with people trying to get onto the next one, I'm not fond of having to walk the length of almost three football fields just to get to dinner. Not a fan of seeing 300 lounge chairs surrounding the pool, each of them with a towel on them but only 10 people actually in the pool or at the bar, to remind me of just how many people are inconsiderate and insist on "reserving" chairs that they have no intention of using. Not fond of having to wait 3-people deep just for a seat at the bar. Definitely not happy with wanting to go dancing, the same moment that 600 other people decide they want to go dancing, in a disco that's only built to handle 300 dancers. I don't even bother with the casinos.

I like the smaller ships because there's more a sense of intimacy, less of a sense of a floating shopping mall during the x-mas rush. That also means less stress on the cook staff which results in better quality food.

It's also quicker on and off the ship when it's smaller, so you have more time to spend wherever it is your ship is sailing.

I wonder if everyone ran to one side would the ship roll?

[Topspinmo]

Originally Posted by manaboutown

How many lifeboats does this ship have? I can't imagine how long it would take to abandon ship if necessary although I am certain there are laws, rules and regulations that govern safety standards and the ship meets them. It just looks kind of scary to me due to the large number of passengers it carries. I hope no one yells FIRE!!! in the wrong place at the right time and hundreds of people try to crowd through a single door.

If on do those ships go down you can pretty much kiss —___ ( fill in blanks) If fall don’t get you the void suction whirlpool will.

[Stu from NYC]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

I would rather spend my money on evangelists, at least I get utopia pray instead packed in like sardines.

Guess we will never meet on a ship than. Oh well.

[MrChip72]

The Royal Caribbean Oasis class ships basically shut down things at 9pm. It's like the Villages on a boat. If I'm paying for a vacation, I like some options that extend well past midnight like on Carnival cruise ships.