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Royal Caribbean’s Port Canaveral-bound Star of the Seas gets first taste of water
The world’s next largest cruise ship can float. Royal Caribbean’s Star of the Seas, which will debut out of Port Canaveral next summer, managed the feat during a construction milestone last weekend.
The sister ship to the current title holder Icon of the Seas, which debuted out of Miami this past January, was in dry dock until shipbuilders at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Turku, Finland, flooded the holding area with 92 million gallons of water during a nine-hour endeavor.
Construction will continue with the ship now afloat at the yard at the outfitting pier before venturing out for sea trials and eventual transatlantic crossing ahead of an August 2025 debut from its Orlando-area homeport.
“Float out really marks the beginning of the next phase, where the fun really begins,” said Jennifer Goswami, Royal Caribbean’s director of product development. “This is when you’ll see the interior come to life.”
Shipyard and cruise line employees marked the occasion 19 months into the ship’s construction, the second of four announced Icon-class vessels that will each be incrementally larger than their sister ships. Icon of the Seas comes in at 248,663 gross tons, which was about 15,000 more than the six existing Oasis-class vessels, five of which had previously held the title for world’s largest cruise ship.