The world's largest cruise ship is basically a city on the water, with room for 6,360 passengers and enough activities to keep each one of them entertained.
Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas is estimated to have cost $1.1 billion, and after 32 months in a French shipyard, set sail Sunday for England on its maiden voyage (the inaugural voyage is May 22 to Barcelona). The ginormous ship is 1,187 feet long, and has 2,500 staterooms across 16 decks. There are seven neighborhoods, and so many features that it's likely guests will forget they are in the middle of the ocean: The boat boasts a park, an ice skating rink, a movie theater, a casino, a carousel, gift shops, 20 dining venues, 23 pools, a water park, the Ultimate Abyss (the tallest waterslide on a ship), and the Bionic Bar, featuring robotic bartenders — and that's just scratching the surface. Good luck to the 2,394 crew members who will keep the ship afloat.
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