Oasis of the Seas
Royal Caribbean · Cruise · In service · built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique
Oasis of the Seas made every previous cruise ship look small overnight in 2009 — forty percent bigger than anything afloat, with a living park down her spine.
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How big is it, really?
The Oasis of the Seas's length overall, against things you already know the size of.
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One Oasis of the Seas = 1.34 Titanics · 3.4 football pitches · 14 blue whales · 4.7 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.
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The numbers
| Length overall | ≈360 m |
|---|---|
| Beam (waterline) | 47 m |
| Gross tonnage | 226,838 GT (post-2019 refit) |
| Passengers | ≈5,400 (double) / ≈6,780 (max) |
| Crew | ≈2,200 |
| Delivered | October 2009 |
| Maiden voyage | December 2009, Fort Lauderdale |
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Last verified: 2026-07-15 · Spot an error? business@luck.fyi
What makes it different
Every giant on this site's cruise board descends from Oasis of the Seas. When she was delivered in 2009 she was around forty percent larger by tonnage than the biggest cruise ship then afloat — a generational jump the industry had never seen and has not repeated since.
Her radical idea was the split superstructure: two parallel towers of balcony cabins with an open-air corridor between them, filled with Central Park's live trees and the Boardwalk's carousel. Balconies could now face inward as well as out to sea, which changed the economics of ship design — more sellable cabins per metre of hull.
Built at STX Europe in Turku, she was also the ship that proved the port infrastructure question: terminals, channels and even the Great Belt Bridge clearance (her funnels were designed to retract) all had to adapt to her, not the other way round. Sixteen years and one major amplification later she is still in front-line service.
The Oasis line
Oasis class
Who operates the Oasis
All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.
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