Class: Vision
Built: 1997, STX Finland, former Kvaerner Masa Yards, Helsinki, Finland
Rebuilt adn expanded: April 2005
Registry: Nassau, Bahamas
Entered service: July 13, 1997 (maiden voyage)
Status: in service.
Tonnage: 74,000 Gross Register Tons (GRT, as origionally built.)
Post Expansion Tonnage:
Origional Length: 919 Feet
Post Expansion Length: XXXXX Feet
Beam: 106 Feet
Draft: 25 feet.
Decks: 11
Speed: 22 Knots (25.3 MPH)
Crew: 780
Origional Passengers: 2,252
Post Expansion Passengers: 2,554
The fourth unit in the six ship Vision class. Enchantment of the
Seas and her sister Granduer of the Seas were built by Kavaerner Masa,
now known as Akers. The first two and final two units were built by
Chantiers de l'Atlantique. Closer in design to Vision and Rhapsody
of the Seas due to not being built for speed, you can recognize them
by the Royal Caribbean logo attached to a sponsor located between
the aft exhast stack and the Viking Crown Lounge.
Enchantment and Granduer of the Seas were the first two ships to have
been equiped with a GPS based Dynamic Positioning System. Non-GPS
based systems had been used for many years prior to this.
In 2005 Enchantment of the Seas was quickly taken out of service,
and pushed through a radical expansion. It was the first time Royal
Caribbean expanded one of its ships since doing the same thing to
Song of Norway and Nordic Prince in the late 1970s. However, in this
case, the expansion was to a ship more than three times bigger, and
included features which could not have been imagined in the '70s.
73 feet in length was added amidships, which allowed for 151 new cabins.
Enchantment of the Seas received trampolines on the forward deck above
the bridge.
This winter, Royal Caribbean Fan will be doing an article on the expansion
The dinning room is name "My Fair Lady Dinning Room" (decks
4 and 5.)
The theater is named "Orpheum Theatre."