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The Living Room for teens

The Youth Zone on Oasis is a "kids-only" neighbor featuring a children's theatre, science lab, arts & craft classes, video arcade, a nursery and more.

Open daily, the nursery offers parents childcare drop-off options in the daytime and evening, carefully maintaining an optimum staff to child ratio. Daily interactive free-time play is also offered for parents and children, encouraging them to bond while playing with a variety of Fisher-Price developmental toys in specially-designed programs offered exclusively for Royal Caribbean. For instance, the Crayola Beginnings line of toddler art tools is featured in unique developmentally-appropriate art activities.

Geared to age 3 to 11, Kids Avenue's is the Youth Zone's answer to the Royal Promenade. It's the main boulevard for young cruisers to access the various Adventure Ocean areas, where three age groupings each enjoy their own space: Aquanauts, ages 3 to 5; Explorers, ages 6 to 8; and Voyagers, ages 9 to 11.

Exciting new common play areas aboard Oasis of the Seas include the Kid's Arcade for video games; the Workshop, where families can learn scrapbooking skills or create personalized jewelry; Imagination Studio, where children can explore the world of color and imagination through Adventure Art by Crayola; a fully-equipped Adventure Science Lab, where Einsteins-in-the-making can expand their knowledge; Play, an indoor playground where children can run around and play games like nurfball and dodge ball; and the 100-seat Adventure Ocean Theater, the first-ever children's theater at sea - complete with a stage and curtains, audience seating and state-of-the-art production equipment - where children of all ages can learn about theatrical productions, take part in talent shows, or sign up for hip hop dance classes.

The teen-only spaces are located one deck above the Adventure Ocean areas and adjacent to the ship's Sports Deck, where kids can test their skills on one of the ship's pair of FlowRider surf simulators, the Oasis Dunes miniature golf-course, or the Sports Court for volleyball and basketball games. Teens are ecstatic about the physical separation of the teen-only spaces from younger Adventure Ocean guests, a striking enhancement that came about as a recommendation of Royal Caribbean's Teen Advisory Board - a group of teens recruited last year to identify what youths between the ages of 12- and 17-years would want to see aboard future Royal Caribbean ships. In fact, Royal Caribbean International is the only cruise line that offers dedicated onboard teen-only space across the fleet.

Longtime favorite Royal Caribbean teen-only spaces, the Fuel disco and The Living Room, return aboard Oasis of the Seas, only larger and more state-of-the-art. The Living Room is the ultimate go-to hangout for teens to kick back and socialize at the "mock-tail" bar, which serves non-alcoholic juice concoctions and sodas. Learn to spin and mix music in Scratch DJ 101 classes, a part of Royal Caribbean's Scratch DJ Academy; or surf the Internet and keep in touch with friends via the bank of computer stations there. Teens can also kick it up a notch at Fuel, a hip nightclub where they can hang out with friends and show off their moves on the dance floor. A spacious outdoor deck adjacent to these venues gives teens even more opportunities to make new friends.