Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Modern day Titanic


The Titanic is setting sail!

Okay, it's not the Titanic, but it's close. It's also unlikely this ship will run into icebergs in the Caribbean, but I'm sure there will be some cheesy love stories on board.

Make way for (drumroll please) the Oasis of the Seas: The largest cruise ship EVER!!

Built by Royal Caribbean, this baby is five times the size of the Titanic, is four football fields long, and has 24 restaurants to accommodate the 6,300 passengers pigging out.


This floating city's week-long Caribbean cruise starts at $1,458 for the bottom of the boat (where Jack stayed), and $3,200 for the "loft suite" (where Rose got naked).

Carnival Cruise lines told the Wall Street Journal that it's like "the Mall of America." And Frommer's Travel Guides says it's a "dumbing down of the travel experience."

The cruise is too big to stop in popular ports like Bermuda, so really, the ship itself is the destination - just like the Titanic!

Except on this ship, the passengers wear Tommy Bahama not tuxedos.

Go to the web site for more details and read this article from the Wall Street Journal to find out its inner workings (it has robots cleaning the windows...seriously).