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<\/a><\/p>\nRoyal Caribbean\u2019s<\/a> newest class of ship is the Quantum Class and when Ovation of the Seas<\/a> joins it, two-thirds of the ships will be based in Asia. Unless you go off to search for it to take a cruise cruise, the only place you\u2019ll find out about it is in places like this. A month after its Southampton launch, Ovation of the Seas is off to Dubai<\/a>, en route to its Asian home: Tianjin, China. It will briefly visit Australia and New Zealand at the end of the year and no\u00a0cruises are posted online after its\u00a0return to Asia (Singapore<\/a>) in February.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n Launch date:<\/b> April 17<\/span><\/p>\n Capacity:<\/b> 4,180<\/span><\/p>\n Sister ships:<\/b> Quantum of the Seas<\/a> (2014), Anthem of the Seas<\/span><\/a> (2015)<\/span><\/p>\n Maiden voyage:<\/b> Southampton<\/a> return (5 days)<\/span><\/p>\n Home port: <\/b>Tianjin<\/a>, China<\/span><\/p>\n Ships then in Royal Caribbean fleet:<\/b> 25<\/span><\/p>\n Interesting:<\/b> Other than the fact that it has robots serving drinks, a flying pod to give\u00a0people a 360-degree view of the sea (or whatever else happens to be in sight) and simulators for surfing and skydiving, it\u2019s just like any other cruise ship. Not really. This is a clone of Quantum and Anthem of the Seas, and the differences will likely be hard to find. Like them it also has the Two70<\/i>-degree lounge\/entertainment center and the SeaPlex<\/i>, where bumper cars, roller skates and basketball are the featured activities. Unlike them, it has virtual balconies so everybody gets to see what\u2019s happening outside whether they\u2019re in the North Star<\/i> or not. With 16 decks, 25 places to eat and a price tag close to a billion dollars, it\u2019s still not even close to being the biggest ship in the world. That comes \u2014 here \u2014 on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/u><\/p>\n \u2022 Windstar’s damaged Star Pride now out of cruising until after April 9 Today at\u00a0<\/span>portsandbows.com<\/span><\/a>: Emerald kicks off Wave Season with free\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/em>are<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Third\u00a0in a series of new ships for 2016 Royal Caribbean\u2019s newest class of ship is the Quantum Class and when Ovation of the Seas joins it, two-thirds of the ships will be based in Asia. Unless you go off to search for it to take a cruise cruise, the only place you\u2019ll find out about… Continue reading New ship No. 3 \u2014 Ovation of the Seas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,19,15],"tags":[1542,1101,1355,137,251,912,72,819,86,35,395,151,1295,1730,26,27,1186,2172,33,2176],"class_list":["post-26658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-ships","category-stories","tag-anthem-of-the-seas","tag-asia-cruises","tag-australia-cruising","tag-caribbean-cruises","tag-china-cruises","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruise-ships","tag-cruises","tag-navigator-of-the-seas","tag-new-cruise-ships","tag-north-star","tag-ovation-of-the-seas","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-quantum-of-the-seas","tag-ripcord-by-ifly","tag-royal-caribbean","tag-seaplex","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022\u00a0Royal Caribbean drops eat-healthy restaurant\u00a0from Anthem of the Seas<\/p>\n
\nRoyal Caribbean Navigator of the Seas
\n<\/a>6 nights
\nApril 10, 2016
\nFort Lauderdale<\/a> (return): Grand Cayman<\/a>, Falmouth<\/a>, Labadee
\n<\/a>Inside: $389
\nCost per day: $64<\/strong><\/span>
\nwww.royalcaribbean.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"