The specially-built home port facility for the Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas and her sister Allure of the Seas is the largest “single ship” cruise terminal ever built. As simply a part of Fort Lauderdale’s Port Everglades cruise port, one of the largest cruise ports in the world, the building can turn over more than 12,000 passengers and their luggage (half leaving, half arriving) in a matter of hours.The bottom level has 90 separate check-in counters surrounding an ocean theme mosaic floor. Some 157 flat-panel television screens aid guests through a check-in process that can be completed in as little as 15 minutes. The 240,000 sq. ft. building was started in 2007 and finished in 2009 at a cost of $75 million, but unlike other terminals, when no ship is present this building is dark and not populated.