Allure’s sister, Oasis is currently docked in Port Everglades. Last night news broke via CruiseLaw and the AP that a small fire in the engine room broke out on Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas. The Allure, which shares the title of worlds largest cruise ship, was sailing back to Florida from St. Maarten on [...]
From RCI Blog: Port Canaveral, Florida is celebrating the start of construction of a new cruise terminal with a scheduled completion date of July 2012. The new terminal should be large enough to handle any cruise ship in the world, including Royal Caribbean’s behemoth Genesis class ships such as Oasis and Allure of the Seas. [...]
Royal Caribbean and the Island of St. Kitts announced that they will commence a series of trail runs to see if Allure of the Seas can call on the port. The first call at the Port Zante Cruise Ship Pier will be Dec 30, 2011. Royal Caribbean is starting to diversify their Eastern Caribbean offering, [...]
Title pretty much says it all. The sistership to the former worlds largest cruise ship was christened by Dreamworks character Princess Fiona from the move franchise Shrek. Full presser after the break:
The two sisters, the flagships of the cruise industry, meet up finally. Check out the photo: Click for uber hi-res
Check out what I found!!!!!! It can be down pretty frequently so just be patient.
The Allure of the Seas was delivered from STX Finland yards. The only ship with a Starbucks at sea and an GUESS store at sea sailed from the cold Finnish city of Turku. Just like her sister Oasis last year, Royal Caribbean execs. were on hand to sign the contracts to take delivery of the [...]
I can’t seem to find any old shipyard reports of the Allure so I guess this is Cruiseind’s #1. Anyways, these photos come courtesy of Royal Caribbean’s Flickr.
