World's largest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas, begins maiden voyage

It was anchors away and bon voyage for those who booked passage for Saturday's maiden voyage on the 250,000-ton engineering marvel, the Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the world's largest cruise ship. Cristian Benavides reports.

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[DevilChemicels]

largest cruise ship : just born
atlantic iceberg : wow so cute

[CruiseModeOn]

ITS THE BEST ROYAL SHIP EVER! 🎉 I LOVE IT!

[brianreardon]

And i thought royals song of America was big when I was a kid in late 80s great ship sailed on her twice.. but is insane now how big cruise ships have gotten !

[zplvisu]

Seré ese el barco donde se undiran ? Obvio los papis y yo en un Yate.

[andremcglashan]

Not 20 seconds into this clip, and they have to say “Titanic”…

[jjw]

Beautiful ship with so much to do on it. It really is a floating city (bigger than my hometown). Can't wait to take a cruise on it in the near future.

[middleagedwomanwithahandba]

Shopping Centre of the Seas. Every husband's worst nightmare 😂

[CountOxymagomedovMMA]

As a sociophobic introvert, that amount of people in that same ship would give me nightmares.

[susancoddington]

Does anyone know how the ship left dock sideways I'm really interested

[sixco]

The largest cruise ship in the world 2024
Is 4 times bigger than titanic with about
10, 000 people currently on board 🤣👍

[anhingathing]

My parents went with Avoya to cruise they had throughout last week, according to them it was quite a blast.

[hcoustal]

What a lovely huge floating Council Estate !!!! /sarcasm off, that thing is just a total monstruosity, i dont get why any same person would want to get stuck with 5000 other idiots in a 10 story building for a week

[carsonthorpe]

I love cruising, but the last time they marketed a ship has the largest in the world this have a leave we all know what happened 😅

[chriss]

Beautiful cruise, I need to visit there 😊

[fyredoesidiotgames]

as history repeats, let's hope I'm wrong.

[jontibloom]

Cant imagine anything worse than being on this garishly painted floating rainbow mermaid cake with 5000 yelling and pushing passengers

[flamelover]

It's still crazy to me that humans have essentially made moving hotels

[ainmargus]

I am happy that I could participate in the construction of this ship and contribute from my side. Its veri nice ship. :)

[vitaliypro]

Why compare it to Titanic? No one has any clue how large it was

[catchmeifyucan]

Floating cargo ship . Only difference is the shipping containers are rich and arrogant