What is the biggest cruise ship in the world 2026?

Ready to plan your vacation on the world's largest cruise ship? Now is the time! Royal Caribbean has announced that due to high demand, it will open bookings for Icon of the Seas 2025-2026 sail dates. Icon of the Seas is the first of Royal Caribbean's new 'Icon' class of vessels.



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Ready to plan your vacation on the world's largest cruise ship? Now is the time! Royal Caribbean has announced that due to high demand, it will open bookings for Icon of the Seas 2025-2026 sail dates. Icon of the Seas is the first of Royal Caribbean's new 'Icon' class of vessels.

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royal caribbean's icon of the seas to sail in 2024 as world's biggest cruise ship with waterpark.

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Berths: 5,610 The first ship in Royal Caribbean's next class of cruise ship, the Icon Class, Icon of the Seas is set to become the world's largest cruise ship by gross tonnage, surpassing the line's Wonder of the Seas.

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1. Wonder of the Seas. The Wonder of the Seas is the world's largest cruise ship and weighs 236,857 Gross tonnes.

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This new luxury cruise ship is 5 times bigger than the Titanic – and it's scaring people: meet Royal Caribbean's epic Icon of the Seas, a 20-deck behemoth Twitter is calling a 'human lasagne'

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Over the past 100 years since the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, only 18 cruise ships and some ocean liners have been publicly known to have sunk. And, over the past 50 years, only four cruise ships have sunk while navigating on a cruise.

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Top 20 Largest Cruise Ships In 2023
  • Wonder of the Seas. The Wonder of the Seas is the world's largest cruise ship and weighs 236,857 Gross tonnes. ...
  • Symphony Of the Seas. ...
  • Harmony of the Seas. ...
  • Allure of the Seas. ...
  • Oasis of the Seas. ...
  • Costa Smeralda. ...
  • P&O Iona. ...
  • AIDA Nova.


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World's largest cruise ship that's 5 times larger than the Titanic set to make its debut
  • Royal Caribbean International's Icon of the Seas is set to debut in January 2024. ...
  • Central Park, one of Royal Caribbean's most-loved experiences, is more lush and livelier than ever on Icon of the Seas.


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The cruise ship, called Icon of the Seas, is massive – measuring 1,198 feet long with 250,800 gross tonnage. Capable of carrying 7,600 guests and 2,350 crew members, the ship is equipped with 20 total decks, seven pools, and what Royal Caribbean describes as six record-breaking waterslides.

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Life at Sea Cruises – which is due to depart in November for a three-year round-the-world cruise – reckons that people are so enthused by the idea of sailing around the world nonstop, that they're going to continue the journey indefinitely, making it “the cruise that never ends.”

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Six months before its maiden voyage, Royal Caribbean's massive new ship, the Icon of the Seas, is already generating an incredible response – and when you take a look at the pictures, that's absolutely zero surprise. The ship is reportedly five times bigger than the Titanic, boasting 20 decks.

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Dubbed world's biggest cruise ship can occupy 5,600+ guests Royal Caribbean has its sights set on claiming the title of the world's largest cruise ship with its multi-leveled and technicolor Icon of the Seas, set to be released in January 2024.

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World's biggest cruise ship will set sail in 2024 Royal Caribbean International's Icon of the Seas is a mammoth 365 meters long (nearly 1,200 feet) and will weigh a projected 250,800 tonnes. For comparison, that's like trying to keep two CN Towers afloat.

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Which Royal Caribbean ship is the largest? The largest Royal Caribbean ship is Icon of the Seas. At 250,800 GT and with a length of 1,198 feet, this is the largest cruise ship in the world, accommodating up to 7,600 guests plus 2,350 crew.

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Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, world's largest cruise ship, makes maiden voyage.

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4. Oasis of the Seas (Royal Caribbean)

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While the Titanic is widely known as a famous passenger vessel, it was also designed to carry cargo across the ocean. Again, this speaks to the fact that the Titanic was not actually a cruise ship. The Titanic had a somewhat large cargo hold on its lower decks.

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The Wonder of the Seas is the world's largest cruise ship and weighs 236,857 Gross tonnes.

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At sea, cruise ships survive hurricanes by avoiding them. The seas are rough, the weather is predictably bad, but otherwise not very predictable.

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Cruise ships rarely get caught in weather this rough as the cruise lines make every effort to sail away from storms. Ports regularly get skipped, and, in extreme cases, cruise lines will extend a trip in order to move their ships away from bad weather.

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The last time a cruise ship sank with passengers on board was a Chinese river cruise ship in 2015, which hit an unexpected and severe storm that capsized the boat.

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