How Many Cabins Are There in Hell?
November 6th, 2009 Posted in General, Travel funnies, Travel industry
(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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5 Responses to “How Many Cabins Are There in Hell?”
By Linda on Nov 6, 2009
I couldn’t help but get a little shudder when I looked at the size of that ship. I have no idea why anyone would think that being confined to that monster would be a fun vacation. It looks downright frightening to me, like a city of exiles on the move.
By MorrisBB on Nov 6, 2009
Arthur Frommer has a really good take on this disaster in relation to the disembarking part. Apparently there won’t be much. I tried to reduce the very very long link at that blog. Hopefully this works: http://tinyurl.com/y9p2jws
By Jason on Nov 7, 2009
This is a great site you have here. I have a new site myself that’s going to be a useful source for vacationers. I was wondering if you would like to exchange links and spread some traffic around. Let me know if this is possible.
Jason
By gary on Nov 7, 2009
At the risk of sounding elitist, this ship and its ilk serve the very useful function of steering inexperienced, scared, loutish, ignorant, boorish, sheepish (and I’ve run out of adjectives) hoards that would otherwise inundate or spoil the locales we generally tend to seek.
There’s a bright side to everything, I suppose.
By Steven on Nov 15, 2009
You may never see me on it, but you are lying if you say that isn’t an amazingly impressive display of human engineering.
I really want to see the insides of that monster.