MIAMIS NEWEST MEGASHIP MSC WORLD AMERICA TO USHER IN A NEW WORLD OF CRUISING, NOW AVAILABLE TO BOOK

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• Icon of the Seas
• Brand New Cruise Ships Will Sail Miami Over the Next Year
• Cruise Line Adds Solar Eclipse Cruises for 2026
• MSC Cruises Reveals the First Over-Water Swing at Sea
• Four MSC Ships Will Cruise from North America next Summer

PortMiami is the Cruise Capital of the World where more passengers have embarked/disembarked on cruise ships over the past decade than any other port in the world. Over the next few years, two more mega ships are headed to Miami where they will homeport and sail cruises to the Caribbean. Usually the essayist commissioned to take to the sea is in their first or second flush of youth and is ready to sharpen their wit against the hull of the offending vessel. The Icon of the Seas is the Linda Loman of cruise ships, exclaiming that attention must be paid. Break up with your weekly routine and set sail on a memory filled getaway that’ll take you so much further than a standard staycation.

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They already speak English better than most of the passengers and, per the Serbian lady’s sales pitch above, better understand what America is as well. Crew members like my Panamanian cabin attendant seem to work 24 hours a day. A waiter from New Delhi tells me that his contract is six months and three weeks long.

Icon of the Seas

“You should hear all the whining in Guest Services,” her husband tells me. Apparently, the Pinnacles who are not also Suites like us are all trying to use their status to get into Coastal Kitchen, our elite restaurant. Even a Pinnacle needs to be a Suite to access this level of corned-beef hash. Pinnacles, it is explained to me over translucent cantaloupe, have sailed with Royal Caribbean for 700 ungodly nights. Pandemic Pinnacles took advantage of the two-for-one accrual rate of Pinnacle points during the pandemic, when sailing on a cruise ship was even more ill-advised, to catapult themselves into Pinnacle status.

Brand New Cruise Ships Will Sail Miami Over the Next Year

The flagship of MSC Cruises’s World-class fleet, MSC World America, will spend its inaugural season based in Miami, Florida. The 6,762-passenger ship is currently in the final phases of construction, but will homeport at what will be the world’s largest cruise terminal when it enters service in April of 2025. Over the past few years, cruise lines have built larger cruise terminals in Miami to accommodate more mega ships. Right now, MSC Cruises is building the largest cruise terminal in the country that will be able process up to 36,000 passengers per day. As an immigrant, I feel duty-bound to complete the tasks I am paid for, which means reaching out and trying to understand my fellow cruisers.

MSC Cruises' newest ship MSC Seashore arrives in Miami, Florida for the first time in preparation for commencing Caribbean sailings. The cruise ship is so large that it will have over 40 food and beverage options with 23 of them being brand new to Royal Caribbean. It will feature 28 different types of staterooms so everyone can choose the perfect one for them. Before the cruise is finished, I talk to Mr. Washy Washy, or Nielbert of the Philippines. He is a sweet, gentle man, and I thank him for the earworm of a song he has given me and for keeping us safe from the dreaded norovirus.

She will exclusively sail 7-night Caribbean itineraries during her inaugural season, giving guests the opportunity to visit some of the most sought-after destinations in the world on a ship designed for worldly and curious travelers. The world’s largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, pulled into its new home port in Miami on Wednesday morning. Departing on Wednesday, November 17, MSC Seashore will sail on a three-day cruise to MSC’s private island of Ocean Cay in the Bahamas. Here the vessel will be officially named by MSC’s favorite godmother, Sophia Loren. It will be the sixteenth time the actress has been godmother to an MSC cruise ship.

Sophia Loren to Be Godmother of MSC Seashore

The 1 billion dollar ship sailed from Barcelona, Spain, only weeks ago from where she completed her first Mediterranean cruise season. Here is a look at the two incredible new mega cruise ships headed to Miami, Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas in 2024 and MSC Cruises’ World America in 2025. The Seaside EVO ships are an evolution of the innovative and popular Seaside class with striking design features, stunning public spaces, and exciting new experiences for guests. MSC Seascape pays tribute to the beauty of the ocean and is designed to help guests enjoy new horizons at sea. MSC Seascape is the fourth Seaside-class ship and second in the Seaside EVO subclass from MSC Cruises. The 169,400 gross ton cruise ship will be delivered to MSC Cruises in late November and will come into service in December 2022, sailing year-round from Miami to the Caribbean.

MSC Cruises Reveals the First Over-Water Swing at Sea

The same goes for its seven pools and nine hot tubs — save for one of each exclusive to guests who've booked a suite. A budget vacation on Royal Caribbean's new wildly popular Icon of the Seas is possible. Just be prepared to stay sober, repeat meals, and pay at least $265 a day. During the cruise, there will be festivities both onboard and ashore at Ocean Cay, while during the evening, guests will enjoy a special gala dinner. Her first cruise will call at Cozumel, Falmouth, Jamaica, and MSC Ocean Cay, in the Bahamas, before returning to Miami, Florida. Guests can combine this cruise with an additional voyage that includes an extra two days at Ocean Cay, a stop in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and a final stop in Nassau, Bahamas.

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Four MSC Ships Will Cruise from North America next Summer

The company added that the Icon of the Seas is also the cruise line’s first ship that can be powered by liquefied natural gas, a transitional fuel. For the adventure-seekers, Thrill Island will feature Category 6, the world’s largest waterpark at sea. And last December, soccer superstar Lionel Messi was named the official icon of Icon of the Seas when he welcomed the ship in an exclusive naming celebration in Miami.

There is a middle-aged African American couple who always seem to be asleep in each other’s arms, probably exhausted from the late capitalism they regularly encounter on land. Many couples are a testament to Loving v. Virginia, and there is a large group of folks whose T-shirts read MELANIN AT SEA / IT’S THE MELANIN FOR ME. I smile when I see them, but then some young kids from the group makes Mr. Washy Washy do a cruel, caricatured “Burger Dance” (today he is in his burger getup), and I think, Well, so much for intersectionality. This program is a joint effort between PortMiami and leading cruise partners such as Carnival Corporation, MSC Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, Royal Caribbean Group, Virgin Voyages, and the Florida Power and Light Company. Miami’s PortMiami has undergone significant improvements over the past decade, with the addition of a new traffic tunnel, state-of-the-art terminals, and new cruise lines.

After the sun sets, in the far, dark distance, another circus-lit cruise ship ruptures the waves before us. We glance at it with pity, because it is by definition a smaller ship than our own. I also get reserved seating for a performance of The Wizard of Oz, an ice-skating tribute to the periodic table, and similar provocations. The very color of my Suite Sky SeaPass Card, an oceanic blue as opposed to the cloying royal purple of the standard non-Suite passenger, will soon provoke envy and admiration. But as high as my status may be, there are those on board who have much higher status still, and I will soon learn to bow before them.

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PortMiami welcomes eight new ships for 2023-24 cruise season.

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Maybe that’s why there’s so much signage on the doors around me attesting to marriages spent on the sea. Maybe that’s why the Royal Caribbean newsletter slipped under my door tells me that “this isn’t a vacation day spent—it’s bragging rights earned.” Maybe that’s why I’m so lonely. Because of the importance of the inaugural voyage of the world’s largest cruise liner, more than 200 Pinnacles are on this ship, a startling number, it seems. Mrs. Palo Alto takes out a golden badge that I have seen affixed over many a breast, which reads CROWN AND ANCHOR SOCIETY along with her name.

After a cruise ends, he says, “in a few hours, we start again for the next cruise.” At the end of the half a year at sea, he is allowed a two-to-three-month stay at home with his family. As of 2019, the median income for crew members was somewhere in the vicinity of $20,000, according to a major business publication. Royal Caribbean would not share the current median salary for its crew members, but I am certain that it amounts to a fraction of the cost of a Royal Bling gold-plated, zirconia-studded chalice. Back on the Icon, some older matrons are muttering about a run-in with passengers from the Celebrity cruise ship docked next to us, the Celebrity Apex. Although Celebrity Cruises is also owned by Royal Caribbean, I am made to understand that there is a deep fratricidal beef between passengers of the two lines. “We met a woman from the Apex,” one matron says, “and she says it was a small ship and there was nothing to do.

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To sail on a ship and not wake up to a vast blue carpet of ocean? Specializing in ocean, river, ultra-luxury, small ship and expedition cruises. When the Icon of the Seas was first revealed in October 2022, the ship spurred the single largest booking day and the highest volume booking week in Royal Caribbean’s then 53-year history, according to the cruise line. The ship sets sail as Royal Caribbean’s cruises are having a moment online. Since December, the company’s 9-month “Ultimate World Cruise” has captivated — and confused — a following of avid watchers on social media. Max out memories like never before on 7-night adventures to the Eastern Caribbean onboard Icon of the Seas℠.