![]() Harmony, like its fellow Oasis-class ships, is divided into seven “neighborhoods.” MORE: 8 luxury cruise ships that aren’t floating hotels “You get everyone there – the older relatives watching the youngest and getting just as much thrill watching them as the kids are having to do the rides.” “It’s not only kids but it’s parents and then it’s even older people,” he says. The attraction debuted on another Royal Caribbean ship, Liberty of the Seas, where Tamis says it’s been a popular family draw. Harmony also includes a trio of water slides called Perfect Storm. Harmony of the Seas is the latest cruise ship to be crowned the world's biggest. “The reports back, and of course the top secret videos that we’re seeing, are just literally thrilling,” says Tamis. One of the big ones: The Ultimate Abyss, which the cruise line calls “the tallest slide on the high seas.”Īnyone who steps onto the slide will enjoy a 100-foot, 10-deck drop – from the Pool and Sports Zone on Deck 16 to the Boardwalk all the way down on Deck 6. Royal Caribbean has added a bunch of bells and whistles to Harmony, the cruise line’s 25th vessel. MORE: The luxury cruise ship experience at 30,000 feet “We’re literally down to the wire and having hourly and daily and weekly meetings just ensuring that not only is the world’s largest but she literally is the world’s best cruise ship,” says Mark Tamis, Royal Caribbean International’s senior vice president of Hotel Operations. It may seem Royal Caribbean is determined to keep that “world’s largest” crown in the family.īut as they prepare for Harmony’s debut, Royal Caribbean executives insist they’re more concerned with pleasing passengers than bagging more bragging rights. She takes that enviable title away from another Royal Caribbean ship, Allure of the Seas, which in its 2010 debut dethroned another Royal Caribbean ship, Oasis of the Seas. Weighing 226,963 gross registered tons with a passenger capacity of 5,479 guests at double occupancy (it fits 6,780 guests total) and 2,100 crew members, Harmony is now the world’s largest cruise ship. Royal Caribbean’s newest ship, Harmony of the Seas, debuts Friday on its pre-inaugural sailing out of Southampton, England. That’s what we’re seeing in the cruising world this week. Imagine a Miss America pageant where the same country keeps winning every year.
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