Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas—the world’s largest cruise ship—is perhaps the epitome of excess.
It’s heavier than 17.000 African elephants, taller than Mount Rushmore, more than twice as long as the Washington Monument. It has more horsepower than seven Ferraris. It hosts more works of art than the Louvre has paintings on display.
The Sports Deck offers a nine-hole miniature golf course, two surf simulators, and an athletic court for basketball, volleyball, and soccer.
Launched in 2016, the 226-thousand-ton ship boasts seven neighborhoods, multistory waterslides, and robot bartenders. It is definitively Alice’s Wonderland at sea.
It can accommodate nearly 7,000 guests and more than 2,000 crew members, earning it the title, “the floating city.”
The Sports Deck offers a nine-hole miniature golf course, two surf simulators, and an athletic court for basketball, volleyball, and soccer.
Harmony of the Seas’ 23 pools, waterslides, and surf simulators contain more than 94 times the water of one eruption of Yellowstone National Park’s iconic geyser, Old Faithful.
Two FlowRider surf simulators pump 34,000 gallons of water per minute, allowing guests to stand-up surf and boogie board.
The cruise industry is one of the fastest growing travel markets worldwide, and ships are increasingly becoming bigger and flashier.
Scientists warn that these ships, which operate in fragile marine ecosystems around the globe, can have detrimental environmental and public health effects due to their significant release of sulfur dioxide and water pollutants.
The Harmony of the Seas—whose art collection features more than 3,000 works by artists from 60 countries—hosts art auctions aboard the ship.
High rollers on the high seas can try their hand at cards, slot machines, and roulette in the ship’s glitzy onboard casino.
Entertainment Place houses the ship’s own nightclub district, which boasts karaoke venues, a theater, ice-skating shows, and a comedy club.
As part of special DreamWorks programming, costumed characters from Shrek, Madagascar, and Kung Fu Panda pose with guests for quirky souvenir photos.
