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  1. The world's biggest cruise ship is almost ready

    CNN —. A vessel that's set to be the world's biggest cruise ship has completed construction at a shipyard in Finland and has made its first foray into open water for sea trials ahead of ...

  2. The World's Largest Cruise Ship Is Nearly 1,200 Feet Long

    The previous world's largest cruise ship was also a Royal Caribbean vessel, Wonder of the Seas, which spanned 1,188 feet long and featured 18 decks. Crews in Turku, Finland, began work on Icon ...

  3. Royal Caribbean's new Icon of the Seas will be world's biggest cruise

    Royal Caribbean has done it again. The cruise line has announced it's building the largest cruise ship ever — even bigger than its recently unveiled Wonder of the Seas, the current record-holder for world's largest cruise ship.The new Icon of the Seas will carry 7,600 passengers at maximum occupancy (or nearly 10,000 people when you account for the crew) when it first sets sail with guests ...

  4. A Look Inside the World's Largest Cruise Ship, Launching January 2024

    December 4, 2023. Royal Caribbean. The biggest thing to ever hit cruising is coming in January 2024, when Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas —which will be the largest cruise ship in the world ...

  5. 18 decks, 20,000 plants, 9,000 passengers: Inside the world's largest

    The ship measures an incredible 1,188 feet, and has capacity for almost 7,000 guests and 2,300 crew. Guests have their pick of 2,867 staterooms over 16 guest decks, and can make their way through ...

  6. Icon of the Seas Construction Update: A Sphere of Activity is Underway

    June 2021 - A new, revolutionary era of cruising is setting sail in fall 2023 with the debut of Royal Caribbean International's first Icon Class ship, Icon of the Seas.Construction is now underway on the cruise line's first LNG-powered ship, which will include a lineup of other advanced environmental technologies and game-changing experiences and features for guests and crew.

  7. 20 decks, a skywalk, a water park: Inside the world's biggest cruise ship

    At 365 metres long and weighing approximately 250,000 tonnes, it's the biggest cruise ship ever built. (According to Royal Caribbean, it's about six per cent bigger than the current record ...

  8. Icon of the Seas

    7,600 passengers (maximum capacity) [5] Crew. 2,350 [5] Icon of the Seas is a cruise ship built for Royal Caribbean International and is the lead ship of the Icon class. She entered service on 27 January 2024 out of the Port of Miami in the US. At 248,663 gross tonnage (GT), Icon of the Seas is the largest cruise ship in the world.

  9. Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas Under Construction: Photos

    It's hard to imagine this incomplete shell of a floating resort will soon be the world's largest cruise ship to hit the market. ... But the new Icon-class ship itself is being built in a ...

  10. Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, world's largest cruise ship, opens

    The first voyages of the biggest cruise ship ever built are now available for booking. Royal Caribbean on Monday began taking reservations for the initial sailings of its much-awaited Icon of the Seas — the first in a new series of vessels at the line that will be bigger than anything seen before in the cruise world.. For now, only members of Royal Caribbean's Crown & Anchor Society loyalty ...

  11. On the World's Largest Cruise Ship, Thrills and Space to Chill

    But the passengers who plunked down $1,800 to $100,000 and boarded the ship at Port Miami in Florida on Jan. 27, said nothing could have prepared them for the vessel's sheer scale. Guests pose ...

  12. The World's Largest Cruise Ship Will Set Sail In 2024

    Go big or go home as the old adage goes. That's certainly been the mantra for Miami based cruise line Royal Caribbean, who just announced their largest ship Icon of the Seas will officially ...

  13. Royal Caribbean to build world's largest cruise ship

    The ship, being built in Finland, will be 1,198 feet long with an internal volume of over 250,000. It will add over 2,300 jobs for the cruise industry and can have over 5,000 guests each sailing ...

  14. The biggest cruise ship in the world is being built

    One will debut in 2022, and the other in 2024. "MSC Cruises' World Class cruise ships will feature 2,760 cabins and a maximum occupancy of 6,850 guests, the highest passenger capacity in the ...

  15. Utopia of the Seas Will Be the Largest Cruise Ever Built in 2024

    Take a tour of the current world's largest cruise ship, Wonder of the Seas: Royal Caribbean has yet to announce a homeport for Utopia of the Seas or where the ship will sail when completed in 2024.

  16. The Crazy Process of Building The World's Largest Cruise Ships

    Cruise ships have become massive, yet constructing them can take as little as 11 months! Today, we will look at the fascinating way cruise ships (including t...

  17. The Insane Scale of the World's Biggest Cruise Ship

    The Icon of the Seas is bigger than some skyscrapers.Read about the creation of Royal Caribbean's striking Miami HQ - https://bit.ly/3EFTFUlFull story here -...

  18. Top 10 Biggest Cruise Ships in the World 2024

    Just Outside the Top 10. 11. P&O Iona (P&O Cruises) FAQ on Largest Cruise Ships. 1. Icon of the Seas (Royal Caribbean) On November 27, 2023, Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas was officially ...

  19. Newest cruise ships 2021-2028 on order/under construction

    Find here the answer to which is the newest cruise ships currently under construction or on order. You can jump directly to the lists of new vessels on order / under construction (2021-2028), as well as new riverboats (2021-2026) and new cruiseferries (2021-2027).. Here you'll find them all - from small to big to the ever-largest passenger ships from the fleets of RCG-Royal Caribbean, Carnival ...

  20. List of largest cruise ships

    In service. As of February 2024, there are 68 passenger ships with over 135,000 GT in service. The first ships over that size were the Voyager-class ships from Royal Caribbean Group's Royal Caribbean International (RCI). These ships, which debuted in 1998 at over 137,000 GT, were almost 30,000 GT larger than the next-largest cruise ships, and were some of the first ships designed to appeal to ...

  21. 'Utopia of the Seas': World's second-largest cruise ship to set sail

    PORT CANAVERAL, Fla. - A new Royal Caribbean cruise ship will soon set sail from Port Canaveral in Florida - just in time for the summer! The cruise line's Utopia of the Seas will make its debut ...

  22. Where Are Cruise Ships Built?

    Behemoth shipyards are responsible for manufacturing many of the world's great ocean liners and cruise ships. The largest shipyards in the world include Fincantieri in Italy, Meyer Werft in ...

  23. The top 10 biggest cruise ships in the world

    Royal Caribbean's flagship, Wonder of the Seas is the fifth Oasis-class cruise ship built for the cruise company. Weighing in at 235,600 gross tonnes, the Wonder was the largest ship in the world ...