A first look has been revealed at what will be the biggest cruise ship in the world when she debuts in 2024.

Royal Caribbean's mega-ship Icon of the Seas will be 1,198 feet long and weigh 250,800 gross tons, statistics that nudge her ahead of the current biggest cruise ship – Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas, which is 1,187ft long and weighs 236,857 gross tonnes.

What's more, Icon of the Seas will have features as eye-opening as her size, from the first suspended infinity pool at sea to a three-storey family suite. This room comes complete with its own white picket fence and mailbox.






Suspended infinity pool

Icon will have capacity for 7,600 guests, with other room options for them including the 'Surfside Family Suite', with alcoves for kids 'tucked away from the adults', 'Sunset Corner Suites' and 'Panoramic Ocean View' quarters.


For starters, Icon will feature the largest waterpark at sea – called 'Category 6' - containing six 'record-breaking' slides: 'Pressure Drop' and its 66-degree incline – 'the industry's first open free-fall slide'; the 46ft-tall 'Frightening Bolt', the tallest drop slide at sea; 'Storm Surge' and 'Hurricane Hunter', the first family raft slides at sea – and 'Storm Chasers', which Royal Caribbean claims is 'cruising's first mat-racing duo'.







Royal Caribbean's first swim-up bar at sea - Swim & Tonic - which will be on Chill Island




Chill Island's infinity-edge Cove Pool, which features in-water loungers




This rendering shows the new AquaDome, which is perched at the top of Icon of the Seas and features an 'awe-inspiring waterfall'




Icon will sail year-round, seven-night eastern and western Caribbean vacations from Miami




'With each new ship, we raise the bar in the travel industry while enhancing what our guests know and love,' said Jason Liberty, president and CEO, Royal Caribbean Group




Cloud 17 in the new Chill Island neighborhood on Icon of the Seas is an adults-only retreat, 'complete with endless ocean views and a dedicated bar'




Icon will be Royal Caribbean's first ship with fuel cell technology and powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG)




The Panoramic Ocean View suites and rooms on Icon of the Seas are 'among the best seats in the house', says Royal Caribbean




Vacationers will be able to swing 154 feet above the ocean at the 'Crown’s Edge' ropes course





Vacationers can book their 'iconic' adventure on Royal Caribbean's website on Tuesday, October 25



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World's largest floating petri dish...

In before the Norovirus outbreak.

ETA: basically beat by virus above.

The pictures make it look like a good time but I bet reality will have an extra 8000 people running around ruining it

Exactly what I was thinking.

Another uglyass floating  hotel??????

Am I in before the party poopers

Edit: nope

Not one person in the renderings is overweight.

Golden Coral of the Seas

Good Cola Warrior venue

Full Suite & Stateroom Preview





Ship Preview & Details

Should we have waited until the buffet line fight videos were posted online?

This would be an excellent location for Die Hard 6 or what ever we are on now.

Chill island is adults only? Sounds like much scooping will be occurring

Or old.
Or ugly.
No screaming, crying, whining children either.

Besides not wanting to be "trapped" with 8K other people, I just don't want to be stuck having to be on the 'ships' schedule.

Outside of an Alaska cruise, might consider one of those Euro river rides, but this? No, no thanks. But you go ahead and do you.


If some sort of disaster were to happen with something that size, the Titanic and Lusitania are going to pale by comparison. That's a lot of bodies in one place to have to "rescue".

Now imagine if that bloated floater had happened to be sailing over the Nordstream as it blew ....

Directed by Michael Bay ...staring Duhwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodrigez and their 6 annoyingly over-cutesified crotch fruit  

I am appalled at this lack of diversity.

Holy shit that looks crowded.  

Thats the kind of shit im trying to escape, not desiring to participate in!!!

They're all at the 24/7 pizza buffet

Somehow I dont envision the actual cruise goers to look anything  like the pictures above.

A lot of pools for 7600 people to be pissing in.

I won't be going on one but I find those ships pretty cool. Amazing, I wonder what their profit is when it's useful life is over?

Looks to be a lot of water in that boat.

If I'm sailing, I'll actively seek out a boat that highlights how dry it is.   Not one that looks pre-sunk.

Imagine being a sub captain and sinking that ship. You would be over halfway to being the all-time tonnage leader with only one kill.

Fhloston Paradise Mk. I

Well, given that about 20% of the population is a bunch of complete and utter morons, I'd rather not be stuck on a boat with 1500 assholes.

Annnnndddd...


The usual GD whiny crybaby sissies are making the usual comments.

Come on guys, it's only 7600 other assholes around you.

She looks unsinkable

This is the first thing I noticed. All the photoshopped skinny people. Looks like a pic from the '70s.

Where are the CAD land whales on their jazzies at the buffet line?

That all looks very safe. Yep.

Looks awesome.  Gonna book it for sure.

Unfortunately my wife will want to go on this.

I hate cruises.

Don't forget the loud, obnoxious foreigners running amok.

I saw the aftermath of what an entire cruise of them did to a ship. I had been on the Celebrity Millennium a few times when it was brand new. The ship was new and beautiful. Then Celebrity decided to run a promotion in South America to increase their market share and they had an entire itinerary set aside for them exclusively. I went on the ship again a few months after that "experiment" and the ship was destroyed inside. All of the carpets were stained, all the artwork in public places were damaged, doors were damaged, tons of table settings were broken and the buttons on the elevators were destroyed. The crew I talked to were traumatized by it. The told me of unruly mobs of kids, constant fights and every sort of trashy behavior you could imagine. The Filipino security cruises usually employ are tough and don't take shit from anyone, so it must have been a nightmare if they couldn't keep a lid on it.

I have no interest in these mega barges. I prefer the mid-size ships in the 2000-3500 passenger range, which is what you see in the other cruise regions like Europe, Asia and Alaska.

Never been on a cruise. What's something like this cost?

Probably around 1200 per person for a 4 night, or 1600ish for a 7 night.

Depends on the type of room you get.  People talk shit about cruises but overall I find them to be overall an enjoyable, easy vacation.

I am SOOOO not ever going to be on that boat.

It can carry 7600 people. There's 14 "in water loungers".

FPNI

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I've been on one of RC's mega-ships, and it was awesome. Y'all need to leave mom's basement once in a while.


PS:  No one in our family got sick, either.

Behemoth, eh? The OPA running it?

I'll need to bring my AK, so I can fight through the Ringo-zombies to get to the lifeboats.

Well, that didn't take long for someone to post that silliness.

I bet a new COVID variant will be made up and shut down the cruise industry again in 1 day before it's maiden voyage.

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