Inside Oasis Take a tour of the worlds largest cruise ship on video

Take a tour of world's largest cruise ship watch video.  http://www.usatoday.com/video/index.htm?bctid=51606443001

World's biggest cruise ship is a floating resort & Inside the city on the sea

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Oasis of the Seas offers more of everything

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World's biggest cruise ship is a floating resort

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Inside the city on the sea

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Big and brash, 'Oasis' sets sail

Oasis of the Seas: the Times review

Oasis of the Seas: Cruising on a sailing city

QE2 completes final voyage to Dubai    Cruise liner completes final voyage from British shores to Dubai to become floating hotel

Cruise Ships on Steroids

 

WHEN MANUEL FRAZAO CLIMBED aboard his most recent cruise, the first thing he did was take off his shoes. But the New Britain, Conn., retiree wasn’t prepping for the pool or testing a new seasickness remedy. He just wanted to feel the grass between his toes.Frazao’s feet were planted in the “Lawn Club,” a half-acre of living grass growing atop the Celebrity Solstice-which, with its $700 million price tag, is one of the most expensive and biggest cruise ships on record. Complete with its own irrigation system and full-time groundskeeper, this perfectly manicured carpet is being touted as a prime spot for passengers to spend an afternoon picnicking, playing croquet or just lying around, watching the waves-that is, when it’s not being mowed.

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In pictures: Biggest ship ever

From the BBC.  The Oasis of the Seas is the biggest cruise liner ever built. It weighs the same as five Titanics, and cost more than £800m to build. Its first voyage is in January 2010.   See all the photos here http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8380000/newsid_8381300/8381309.stm

Oasis of the Seas sets sail

HELSINKI – It’s five times larger than the Titanic, has seven neighborhoods, an ice rink, a golf course and a 750-seat outdoor amphitheater. The world’s largest cruise ship is finally finished and Friday it began gliding toward its home port in Florida. Maybe some of my readers will try a trip on the big ship sooon. Its like a floating city wow.

Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas departs from a ship yard in Finland. The Oasis of the Seas, the largest passenger vessel ever built, is set to be handed over to Royal Caribbean International. via AP

The Oasis of the Seas will meet its first obstacle Saturday when exits the Baltic Sea and must squeeze under the Great Belt Bridge, which is just 1 foot taller than the ship — even after its telescopic smokestacks are lowered.

To be on the safe side, the ship — which rises about 20 stories high — will speed up so that it sinks deeper into the water when it passes below the span, said Lene Gebauer Thomsen, a spokeswoman for the operator of the Great Belt Bridge. Continue reading here http://www.gmanews.tv/story/176021/five-times-bigger-than-titanic-worlds-largest-cruise-ship-sails-for-us-port