Port Everglades Opens to Public for Waterside View of Oasis of the Seas on November 27

Due to interest in Royal Caribbean International's Oasis of the Seas, the public is invited to see the outside of ship while it is docked at Port Everglades on Friday, November 27, from noon to 4 p.m. The ship is not open for public tours; however, there will be unobstructed waterside views with an opportunity for taking photographs.

Sightseers will enter through the Port security gates at Southeast 17th Street or State Road 84/Southeast 24th Street (no public access through I-595/Eller Drive entrance) where they will take a shuttle bus from a free parking lot by the Broward County Convention Center to a pier across from the Oasis of the Seas. Visitors will be allowed to get off the shuttle to take photographs.

This is a free service offered to the public by Broward County's Port Everglades and the Broward County Board of County Commissioners. No reservations are required. All persons 18 years old and older will need to show government-issued photo identification such as a driver's license or passport.

Port Everglades will only offer this sightseeing service on Friday, November 27. The Port is closed to public access for sightseeing at all other times due to state and federally mandated security standards and limited parking for cruise guests only.

The 5,400-passenger Oasis of the Seas, the largest and most revolutionary cruise ship in the world, will be sailing from Port Everglades every Saturday year-round beginning December 5, 2009, from Cruise Terminal 18, the world's largest single-ship cruise terminal. For more information about Oasis of the Seas, please contact Royal Caribbean International at 1-800-327-6700.

More information about Port Everglades is available online at http://www.broward.org/port%20and http://www.broward.org/port%20.

11/2009