We spent 80 hours aboard the Icon of the Seas - the world’s largest cruise ship - and it was absolutely massive. From record-breaking water parks and endless food options to live shows, hidden lounges ...

The best intimate-ship ocean cruise lines in our annual "World’s Best Awards" survey for 2025 all have 150 or fewer cabins, and offer passengers an educational adventure on the high seas.

Here's a look inside this gigantic Royal Caribbean ship—where efficiency, design, and scale turn cost into profit.

Passenger Capacity Based on Double Occupancy For example, basic river cruises carry roughly 150 guests, smaller ocean-going cruise ships tend to hold around 500 passengers, while larger ships ...

Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas docked at Perfect Day at CocoCay, the line's private island in the Bahamas. ASHLEY KOSCIOLEK/THE POINTS GUY It's hard to believe, but when Freedom of the Seas ...

Royal Caribbean’s MS Sovereign of the Seas, considered to be the first mega ship, with a passenger capacity of 2,850, took its maiden voyage in 1998, while Disney Cruise Line was established ...

And oh, it comes complete with sound effects, too. The theme for the restaurant changes over time. Thrills, shows and CocoCay Of course, the 10 pools on the ship are a magnet for passengers.

915 feet long 78,878 gross tons 12 decks Vision-class Grandeur of the Seas (1996) This was the first of the Vision-class ships, built in 1996 and is now the oldest ship with Royal Caribbean.

Over the 2023 holidays, a 41-year-old male passenger fell overboard about 127 miles east of Charleston, South Carolina, from Vision of the Seas on the night before Christmas Eve, December 23, 2023.

For many of the first passengers on the world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas, the onboard reality of the $2 billion behemoth lived up to the over-the-top hype.

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.

The world’s largest cruise ship has everything from an ice-skating rink to a zipline court and is like a “floating theme park”, says travel writer Jo Kessel. Royal Caribbean’s brand new ...