Royal Caribbean's luxurious new vessel Icon of the Seas is nearing completion in the Turku shipyard on Finland's southwestern coast, its maiden voyage scheduled for January 2024.
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According to Royal Caribbean, when Icon of the Seas sets sail on Jan. 27, 2024, it will become the largest cruise ship in the world. For more information about the ship, click on this link.
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'
While new class of ship Icon of the Seas debuting in Miami in January will take the title of world's largest cruise ship, Utopia will hold the No. 2 spot, projected to be incrementally larger than sister ship Wonder of the Seas at 236,860 gross tons.
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.
Two more — Celebrity Apex and Celebrity Beyond — began sailing in 2020 and 2022, respectively. The last two ships in the series currently on order, Celebrity Ascent and an as yet unnamed sister vessel, are due in December 2023 and sometime in 2025, respectively.