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(c) Oasis of the Seas
Here’s one seagoing vessel you will never find me upon: the 6,300-passenger Oasis of the Seas that is now in the ocean somewhere on the way to its home base in Florida. I think you can see it coming if you’re standing on a hill in Alabama.
According to the Associated Press, this monstrosity has 2,700 cabins and more sleeping quarters for 2,100 crew members. To put that in perspective, it’s roughly the number of rooms you find in the sprawling Gaylord Opryland hotel in my home city of Nashville (where guests’ main complaint is that they keep getting lost because it’s so huge). That’s twice as many rooms as the largest convention hotel in sizable cities like Houston, Montreal, Miami, and New Orleans. Think of the last convention hotel you were in, multiply it by three times, shrink the room sizes, then push it and all the guests out to sea. Sound like fun?
“Company officials are banking that its novelty will help guarantee its success. Five times larger than the Titanic, the $1.5 billion ship has seven neighborhoods, an ice rink, a small golf course and a 750-seat outdoor amphitheater.
The liner also has four swimming pools, volleyball and basketball courts, and a youth zone with theme parks and nurseries for children.”
Can you imagine what it would be like to enter a port city in the Caribbean and disembark with 6,000+ other people? I’d be asking someone to wake me from the nightmare.
Comments open as to who will actually pay to be a part of this “mass tourism to the Nth degree” experience.
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