Rare little britain Posted February 5, 2014 #1 Share Posted February 5, 2014 http://staging.royalcaribbean.co.uk/our-ships/oasis-class/allure-of-the-seas/ On Sale Feb 18th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidcraig2003 Posted February 5, 2014 #2 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Some more info: http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/Articles/2014/02/05/46858/allure+of+the+seas+to+be+based+in+europe+for+first+time.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADflyer Posted February 5, 2014 #3 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I like the way they make no mention that the contract required the ship to return for a five year check as required for the maintenance agreement for the vessel with STX. Guess it sounds a lot better that it is due to the strong demand in the UK and Europe and all the great travel agents that have made that happen..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidcraig2003 Posted February 5, 2014 #4 Share Posted February 5, 2014 I like the way they make no mention that the contract required the ship to return for a five year check as required for the maintenance agreement for the vessel with STX. Guess it sounds a lot better that it is due to the strong demand in the UK and Europe and all the great travel agents that have made that happen..... To be fair, it doesn't have to be here May - Oct for drydock purposes, only a few weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobal Posted February 5, 2014 #5 Share Posted February 5, 2014 To be fair, it doesn't have to be here May - Oct for drydock purposes, only a few weeks Exactly - it's doing a full summer here so hardly here just for its dry dock schedule. This is great news - and the itineraries are pretty good, considering it's such a large ship. Nice to see it calling in La Spezia rather than Livorno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshrich Posted February 5, 2014 #6 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Great, we are doing the Oasis TA this October so could do the Allure TA in April/may to get the return airfare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmvda Posted February 5, 2014 #7 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Great news Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uksimonusa Posted February 5, 2014 #8 Share Posted February 5, 2014 wow April to October, a normal European season, not just for drydock, like Oasis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizanessie Posted February 5, 2014 #9 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Wow, the biggest RCCL ship & the newest RCCL ship in Europe at the same time :eek: :D I think it will be quite interesting to watch the pricing in Europe next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackaboo Posted February 5, 2014 #10 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Definitely gotta get booked on this! But yes, anxious to see pricing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason12 Posted February 5, 2014 #11 Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) Definitely gotta get booked on this! But yes, anxious to see pricing Prices from http://staging.royalcaribbean.co.uk/_images/Allure-of-the-Seas-Summer-2015_tcm16-52323.pdf Edited February 5, 2014 by Jason12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaofwonder Posted February 5, 2014 #12 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Nice! Can't wait to see how this affects the rest of Europe. Was contemplating another European cruise in 2015 as we'll be in that neck of the woods for a land vacation. Sent from my iPad using Forums mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADflyer Posted February 5, 2014 #13 Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) With MSC Divina and NCL Getaway now year round from Miami along with Carnival Breeze and Glory and Oasis and Carnival Freedom year round from Ft. Lauderdale, this seems like a perfectly sensible move, especially after NCL just moved Epic year round to Barcelona last week. I find it interesting that they will be inter-porting with embarkation in Civitavecchia as well, even though Barcelona is much better prepared for these mega-ships. Interesting that they dropped Naples after it was shown that they had booked port calls there last October for 2015. It seems Royal Caribbean B. lo. g could not be posted here. This was the source about Naples port calls reported earlier. Edited February 5, 2014 by MADflyer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADflyer Posted February 5, 2014 #14 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Press release about Allure in Europe 2015. http://www.e-tid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Allure-5-February-2014.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyron Posted February 5, 2014 #15 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Wow! Apparently, this is move has nothing to do with the required dry dock. I wonder what ship will handle the Sunday to Sunday Caribbean itineraries from Fort Lauderdale. I am wondering too how this will affect their agreement with Port Everglades to deliver a certain number of passengers especially since they built/designed terminal 18 for both Oasis class ships. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Topo Gigio Posted February 5, 2014 #16 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Wow! Apparently, this is move has nothing to do with the required dry dock. I wonder what ship will handle the Sunday to Sunday Caribbean itineraries from Fort Lauderdale. I am wondering too how this will affect their agreement with Port Everglades to deliver a certain number of passengers especially since they built/designed terminal 18 for both Oasis class ships. :cool: Hey buddy, we need to book a cruise on this ship, while she is in Europe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cruising89143 Posted February 5, 2014 #17 Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) Wow! Apparently, this is move has nothing to do with the required dry dock. I wonder what ship will handle the Sunday to Sunday Caribbean itineraries from Fort Lauderdale. I am wondering too how this will affect their agreement with Port Everglades to deliver a certain number of passengers especially since they built/designed terminal 18 for both Oasis class ships. :cool: I think that RCCL has had and has enough ships scheduled when you include Celebrity into the mix. Also throwing in those four and five days cruises on the Liberty and Constellation helps bring those numbers up rather quickly. I agree that this has nothing to do with the dry dock. It's obvious that the demand for the Oasis for this year was very good. Allure will do very well in Europe and give Costa and MSC a run for their money. No other cruise line can match this ship. Good move by RCI. Edited February 5, 2014 by cruisingator2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackaboo Posted February 5, 2014 #18 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Prices fromhttp://staging.royalcaribbean.co.uk/_images/Allure-of-the-Seas-Summer-2015_tcm16-52323.pdf ouch!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADflyer Posted February 5, 2014 #19 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Demand for Oasis this year was not only good, but amazing. I was on the Liberty TA last April, when they opened bookings for Oasis. There were lines 40 passengers deep for entire days waiting to book Oasis with Next Cruise. Think we had 400 plus D+ on that sailing. Of course it, most likely, has to do with the required dry-dock, but it would not make sense to not get full market value out of the crossing to Europe especially if they feel they can better and more profitably fill the capacity in Europe, while maintaining their strong market in Florida with other ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxHadleyxx Posted February 5, 2014 #20 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Sorry I missed this and started another thread. I was kind of excited :p I would guess that the dry dock will be in the large gap between the East bound TA and the first 7 night sailing and that they will probably add some repo dates in there to move it up to Roterdam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBert Posted February 5, 2014 #21 Share Posted February 5, 2014 http://www.royalcaribbeanpresscenter.com/press-release/1075/worlds-largest-and-most-innovative-cruise-ship-allure-of-the-seas-to-inaugurate-first-full-oasis-class-europe-season/ Sent from my Galaxy S3! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobal Posted February 5, 2014 #22 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Interesting that they dropped Naples after it was shown that they had booked port calls there last October for 2015. . Am I reading your post wrong, I don't see that they have dropped Naples, - it's one of the ports of call Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wmp.dll Posted February 5, 2014 #23 Share Posted February 5, 2014 So does this mean the T/A will go on sale on Feb 18th? That's the only sailing I'd be interested in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADflyer Posted February 5, 2014 #24 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Am I reading your post wrong, I don't see that they have dropped Naples, - it's one of the ports of call I think Naples was not included in the original article posted confirming that Allure was sailing from Barcelona. But happy to see it was included in later literature posted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizanessie Posted February 5, 2014 #25 Share Posted February 5, 2014 So does this mean the T/A will go on sale on Feb 18th? That's the only sailing I'd be interested in. 12th Feb for C&A members 18th Feb for general public. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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