Rhapsody of the Seas.

Class: Vision
Built: 1996/1997 Chantiers de l' Atlantique (Saint-Nazaire, France)
Registry: --
Entered service: May 19 1997 (Maiden Voyage)
Status: in service.
Tonnage: 78,491 gross register tons
Length: 915 feet
Beam: 105.6 feet
Draft: 25 feet

Decks: 11
Speed: 22 knots (25.3 mph)

Crew: 765
Passengers: 2,435

Notes:

The fifth unit in the six ship Vision class. As with the final four units in the class, Rhapsody 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. Rhapsody 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 "Edelweiss Dinning Room." (decks 4 and 5.)
The theater is named "Broadway Melodies Theatre."