Class: Vision
Built: 1997/1998 Chantier de l' Atlantique (Saint-Nazaire, France)
Registry: --
Entered service: May 2, 1998 (maiden voyage)
Status: in service
Tonnage: 78,491 Gross Register Tons (GRT)
Length: 915 Feet
Beam: 105.6 Feet
Draft: 25 feet.
Decks: 11
Speed: 22 Knots (25.3 MPH)
Crew: 765
Passengers:2,435
The fifth unit in the six ship Vision class. As with the final four
units in the class, Vision is not designed for speed. Thus her size
and internal layout is much more akin to the pre-Voyager class ships
of the Royal Caribbean fleet. Vision of the Seas can be recognized
compared to her sisters by how the Royal Caribbean logo is attached
to the main stack which is seperate from the Viking Crown Lounge and
aft of it as in the first two units. The second two units have the
logo son a sponsor just ahead of the stack, which is also detached
from and aft of the Viking Crown Lounge. The Vision class also introduced
a single dinning room concept to the newest ships in the fleet. Rather
than two identical rooms isolated on seperate decks, you have a single
room, with a large open space overlooking the Captains table and main
floor, spread over two decks. This would evolve into three decks on
the Voyager class.
The Vision class also introduced mini-golf to Royal Caribbean ships.
As originally equiped, Rhapsody was equiped with four tender boats,
with a capacity of 140 each. They also functioned as lifeboats.
Dinning room is named the "Aquarius Dinning Room." (decks
4 and 5.)
The theater is named "Masquerade Theatre."