The World’s largest cruise ship has arrived!

The World’s largest cruise ship has arrived:

Oasis of the Seas Delivery

This is an exciting time for us travel agent’s,  The World’s largest cruise ship has arrived!

Just look at these stats:16-deck, 5,400-capacity, complete with a park-at-sea, zipline, handcrafted carousel and multilevel urban-style loft suites. It also offers seven themed areas and an aquatic amphitheatre that is a pool by day and a theatre by night. This ship is the largest cruise ship on the seas, weighing in at 220,000 tons and offering  2,704 – staterooms.

Heading for Florida

The ship  sailed from Turku in Finland on 30th October 2009 for its home port of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where it will make its debut on November 11.

Why don’t you Follow along with her?

The ship’s progress will be fed onto daily webisodes broadcast on oasisoftheseas.com and via Twitter.

Visitors to the website can view Google Maps applications and follow the ship’s passage, and fans can also follow two blogs about the ship from chairman Richard Fain and President and CEO Adam Goldstein.

Royal Caribbean has innovated hugely within the sector in the last five years, introducing the formerly sedate world of cruise to the onboard FlowRider surf simulator, rock climbing walls, ice-skating rinks and cantilevered whirlpools.

 Big names

And kicking off the entertainment lineup -  Rihanna will perform next month. The November 19 concert will take place during a three-night preview voyage scheduled before the official debut in early December.

The concert is the first to promote Rihanna’s new album, Rated R, the line says. The new album, due out on November  23, is Rihanna’s first since 2007’s Good Girl Gone Bad, which went multiplatinum. 

Staterooms to be had

Royal Caribbean said that sales for the Oasis of the Seas are where they want them to be – but they’re not at capacity, bookings were still available for the Oasis’ inaugural sailing on December 5th 2009, the 7 night  itinerary if you like it is below:

Ports of Call: Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; Nassau, Bahamas; Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Prices from only: $1,299.00 per person (USD, based on double occupancy, inside stateroom, plus taxes and fees, subject to availability )

For more information visit: http://www.rainbowtravelonline.com/cruisesearch