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 Meyer Turku floats out Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas at their Turku, Finland, yard on December 8, 2022. Photos courtesy of Royal C...

Chantiers de l'Atlantique laid the keel today at their Saint-Nazaire yard for Royal Caribbean's next Oasis-class ship, Utopia of the...

The first of Royal Caribbean's 200-gross-ton Icon-class ships, Icon of the Seas, is under construction at Meyer Turku. It will be Royal ...

Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas has returned from its four-day sea trials. Catch up with what went on during the four days in just ...

This construction update (August 2021) on Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas shows the progress toward the March 2022 delivery of the ...

On June 14, 2021, Meyer Turku cut the first steel for Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas which will be delivered in the fall of 2023. Th...

In preparation for its inaugural cruise, Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas arrived at Port Everglades this morning to a water cannon...

It was a full moon over the weekend, and that meant the tides and the depth of the Ems River were right for Royal Caribbean's new Odysse...

On Saturday (November 28, 2020), Meyer Werft floated out Royal Caribbean's new Odyssey of the Seas at their Papenburg (Germany) yard.  T...

After a two-month dry dock, the newly “amplified” Oasis of the Sea returned to service over the weekend from Miami with a bunch of new and u...

In case you've missed Oasis of the Seas, it's been hiding out in a dry dock in (Cadiz) Spain for almost two months getting updated -...

For many years, helicopters have given us amazing aerial views. They are expensive, so despite the spectacular visuals, their use is limited...

CND subscribers also read about: An additional delay for Costa Smeralda's delivery, pushing the inaugural cruise back to December 21....

As Chantiers de l'Atlantique laid the keel for Royal Caribbean's fifth Oasis-class ship in Saint-Nazaire (France) today, halfway aro...

Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas is 28 years old, and she finally did something she's never done before. Majesty of the Seas at...

Royal Caribbean announced today they will seasonally homeport Odyssey of the Seas at Ft Lauderdale beginning in November 2020. It will be th...

CND subscribers also read about: Carnival Panorama completing sea trials Despite ongoing political unrest in San Juan, Royal Caribbean re...

Royal Caribbean announced plans to “Amplify” Voyager of the Seas similar to what they have done with other Voyager-class ships, adding new a...

CND subscribers also read about: A passenger going overboard from Norwegian Epic A protest that delayed Zuiderdam A behind-the-scenes-lo...

In the runup to this week's cancellation of calls to Cuba, it seems that whenever cruise operators would be asked about Cuba, they would...