I heard a totally unconfirmed rumor

[Aquahound]

The rumor turned out to be true.

 

A European Oasis

With the departure of Oasis of the Seas to Europe in 2014 for a short fall season, Europe will get its first taste of mega-ship cruising. In addition to the two repositioning transatlantic sailings, Oasis will sail three Western Mediterranean itineraries out of Barcelona in September and October

 

Link to article http://www.cruisecritic.com/news/news.cfm?ID=5292

 

I think you misunderstood my post.

[niko40]

 

 

this is from an email I got of royal

[Iluvcruising2]

Oh wow. Sailing from UK? What are the dates?

[RCcruisinfamily]

I just got off Freedom today and the Captain announced this also.

[Elizanessie]

Oh wow. Sailing from UK? What are the dates?

 

The Oasis only has one call into Southampton.

 

The Oasis TA & Europe itineraries are -

 

August 30th 2014 2 night Bahamas sailing.

 

Sept 1, 2014

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

Malaga, Spain

At sea

Barcelona, Spain

 

09/13/14, 5 nights -

Embark Barcelona

At sea

Rome

At sea

Mallorca

Disembark Barcelona

 

09/18/14 5 nights -

Embark Barcelona

At sea

Rome

Naples

At sea

Disembark Barcelona

 

09/23/14 7 nights.

 

Embark Barcelona

At sea

Malaga

At sea

Vigo

At sea

At sea

Disembark Rotterdam

 

 

Drydock, then -

 

Oct 14, 2014

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Southampton, UK

At sea

At sea

Vigo, Spain

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

At sea

Ft. Lauderdale,FL

[Iluvcruising2]

I just got off Freedom today and the Captain announced this also.

 

So exciting!!

[gadawg1979]

Dear friends:

 

At the Royal Caribbean Park in Madrid I mention in another thread I posted today, I heard a rumor from one of RCCL's top selling travel agents here in Spain.

 

She said the Oasis would come to Barcelona for the 2013 or 2014 season.

 

While I have my doubts about that, it could be feasible for the standard 7-night western Med run -- all of the ports (except Villefranche) are major cities that could handle the Oasis. In keeping with the ship-destination policy of adding an additional sea-day, RCCL could skip Villefranche or could probably use Marseilles instead.

 

The ship would fit in Barcelona and in other ports such as Livorno, Civitavecchia. I have my doubts about Naples, though -- so maybe that port would be skipped. Or it could alternate itineraries and do the extra Italian port one week and the French port another week.

 

Please don't flame me -- it's just a rumor -- all of the "newer" class ships eventually make it over here sooner or later (NCL sent Epic here and we now have RCCL Liberty here) so there just might be some truth to it.

 

Kind regards,

 

Gunther and Uta

Well congrats and last laugh is on you. All the people that said no. Well they forgot about that little thing called dry dock....

[tahqa]

Well congrats and last laugh is on you. All the people that said no. Well they forgot about that little thing called dry dock....

 

No one FORGOT about drydock. The assertion was made that Oasis HAD to drydock in Europe as there were no other drydocks large enough for it. That assertion was false as the drydocks in Newport News, VA, are plenty big enough for it. :rolleyes:

[Debde]

I'm thinking if the 9/13 9/18 and 9/23 sailing go ching ca ching for royal, you may very well see an Oasis class sooner then some think in Europe for the summer season maybe. :confused: