Is larger higher on the subject of cruise ships? Royal Caribbean actually believes so: its Icon Class of cruise ships are the most important afloat on this planet. The debutant Icon of the Seas, launched in 2024, weighs in at almost 1 / 4 of one million gross tons and carries greater than 5,600 passengers. In truth, the entire Royal Caribbean ships christened within the final decade — all both Oasis or Quantum class vessels — carry 4,000 or extra friends.
Royal Caribbean presents itineraries everywhere in the world, however the Caribbean remains to be the cruise line’s house waters, so for those who take a Royal Caribbean cruise to the islands — even when it’s only a fast journey from Florida to the Bahamas (one thing the corporate is making a good larger precedence)— likelihood is you’ll be onboard one among these newest and best cruise ships:
Utopia of the Seas
Royal Caribbean’s latest Oasis-class cruise ship is used principally for Bahamas cruises out of Port Canaveral, Florida. The thought, the corporate says, is shorter getaways — one thing guardian firm RCCL can be introducing with its sister firm, Movie star. Like different Oasis-class ships, public areas onboard the Utopia are designed round a sequence of “neighborhoods” that maintain friends entertained and fed whereas additionally serving to to unfold passengers across the ship. Onboard facilities embrace a wave pool, waterslides, a 10-story “dry” slide, and greater than 20 eating choices. Three night time itineraries out of Port Canaveral (Orlando) go to Nassau and Royal Caribbean’s non-public island within the Bahamas, CocoCay; four-night Western Caribbean journeys add a port name in Cozumel, Mexico.
Icon of the Seas
The de facto flagship of the Royal Caribbean, the world’s largest cruise ship had her maiden voyage in 2024 and boasts a mind-boggling array of facilities together with seven swimming swimming pools, a water park, mini golf, a zipper line, an ice rink, and naturally a number of eating and ingesting shops. Icon sails on seven-night Japanese and Western Caribbean itineraries, all with a “Excellent Day at CocoCay” cease. Port calls on numerous itineraries embrace St. Kitts; St. Thomas (USVI); San Juan; Cozumel; Puerto Costa Maya in Mexico’s southern Yucatan state; Roatan, Honduras; St. Maarten; and Labadee, Haiti.
Surprise of the Seas
The most important of Royal Caribbean’s Oasis class ships, the Surprise of the Seas displaces 235,600 gross tons and might carry 6,734 passengers. It first sailed in 2022. The ship sails on three, 4, and 7 night time Caribbean cruises, calling at CocoCay in addition to Nassau, St. Maarten, St. Thomas, San Juan, Puerto Costa Maya, Roatan, Cozumel, and St. Kitts (relying on itinerary, in fact).
Odyssey of the Seas
The most recent of Royal Caribbean’s Quantum class ships, the Odyssey of the Seas carries about 4,200 passengers; like different ships on this class, the Odyssey has uncommon sights like bumper automobiles, skydiving simulators, and North Star rides that swing friends out from the edges of the ships in glass commentary capsules. Giant leisure venues enable for spectacular exhibits that includes acrobats and different high-flying performers. With its identify, it’s not shocking that Odyssey of the Seas spends time crusing the Greek islands a part of the 12 months, however the ship additionally operates on seven, eight, and 11-day Caribbean itineraries out of Cape Liberty, N.J., — longer journeys that enable for port calls at some less-visited locations like Antigua, St. Lucia, and Barbados.
Symphony of the Seas
Greater than 5,500 passengers might be welcomed aboard this Oasis-class ship that first set sail in 2018. House ported in Miami, Symphony of the Seas embarks on 4, seven, and 9 night time cruises to the Bahamas and Japanese and Western Caribbean stopping at most of the similar ports of name as different Royal Caribbean ships but additionally visiting Puerto Plata and the Dominican Republic and Falmouth, Jamaica on some itineraries.
Concord of the Seas
The world’s largest cruise ship when it debuted in 2016, the Oasis-class Concord of the Seas has a passenger capability of 5,479 and sails from its house port of Galveston, Texas to the japanese and western Caribbean on six, seven, and eight night time itineraries. It additionally stops at Nassau, Bahamas as a part of a 16-night transatlantic cruise.
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