Biggest Cruise Ship Oasis
Biggest Cruise Ships: Titanic Shmitanic
The world’s most massive cruise ship when it was launched 100 years ago, the Titanic wouldn’t rank among the world’s 50 largest today. Here’s a look at the 10 most Bunyanesque boats, all built since 2000. For comparison purposes, we’ve ranked them by gross tonnage and also provided their lengths and passenger capacity.
Biggest Cruise Ships: Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas (also Allure of the Seas)
The world’s most ginormous ship is too long, too wide and too tall to fit through the Panama Canal. But with zip lines, rock climbing walls and Broadway shows onboard, you might not even notice whether the ship actually goes anywhere at all. Its 2,384 crew members are more than the passenger capacity of most ships built before 2000.
Biggest Cruise Ships: Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas (also Liberty, Independence of the Seas)
Royal Caribbean's Miss Congeniality is still so gargantuan that you half expect singer Celine Dion to write a syrupy ballad about it. There’s water, water, everywhere on this ship, from the ubiquitous swimming pools and Jacuzzis to the surf simulator to the ice-skating rink to waterfalls and sculpture fountains and the H2O Zone, a water park just for kids.
Biggest Cruise Ships: Norwegian Epic
Norwegian's heavyweight contender is so Brobdingnagian that it had to remove five lifeboats just to shimmy into New York Harbor for its christening last July. Twenty dining options including teppanyaki and 24/7 pizza delivery mean you never have to dine with your 1,000 closest friends. The Epic also contains the Svedka Ice Bar, made entirely of ice.
Biggest Cruise Ships: Cunard's RMS Queen Mary 2
Line 40 London double-decker buses bumper to bumper and they still won’t span the length of Cunard’s leviathan flagship. Or lie Big Ben on its side, and you’d still have room for a football field on either end. The world’s largest ship when it first set sail in 2004, the QM2 is still big on luxury. It holds just 1,310 staterooms, giving its guests plenty of room to stretch out.
Biggest Cruise Ships: Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas (also Explorer, Adventurer, Navigator, Mariner of the Seas)
The Voyager class is nine times the length of the Wright Brothers' first flight. This is the humongous ship that started the whole supersizing trend back in 1999, and the first to pack in no-need-to-leave-the-ship attractions like an in-line skating track, a TV studio and a concert arena. The 9-hole golf course is of the miniature variety, but that’s the only diminutive thing about this ship.
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