The world’s largest cruise ship leaves Florida on its inaugural route

MIAMI —

The “Wonder of the Seas”, the largest cruise ship in the world, set sail on its first departure from Port Everglades, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The Royal Caribbean company ship today welcomed its first guests on this outing that will take them through the Caribbean on a seven-night cruise.

But before that, the traditional baptism was carried out with jets of water expelled by two ships from the Everglades port, which fired this ship for the first time with regarding 30 minutes of delay over the scheduled departure time.

Built in St. Nazare (France), the ship is 64 meters wide and 362 meters long. She has capacity for 6,988 passengers and a crew of 2,300 people, which allows her to unseat “Symphony of the Seas”, also from Royal Caribbean, as the largest cruise ship in the world.

The ship has The Ultimate Abyss, the highest slide in the sea, a 10 meter high zip line, a surf simulator, climbing walls, and more than 20,000 real plants in its particular “Central Park”.

The company boasts that the ship also has more than 20 restaurants and bars, and it is so big that it has up to eight “neighborhoods”.

The “Wonder of the Seas” will have two different routes, one through the eastern Caribbean and the other through the western, which include visits to Labadee (Haiti), San Juan (Puerto Rico), Roatán (Honduras) and Cozumel and Costa Maya, both in Mexico, as well as a day at CocoCay, a private island in the Bahamas owned by the cruise company.

And it will maintain these routes until next May the ship goes to Barcelona (Spain) and Rome, where it will carry out the summer season with seven-night cruises through the western Mediterranean to destinations such as Naples and Florence, in Italy; Palma de Mallorca, in Spain, and the region of Provence, in France.

In November of this year, the “Wonder of the Seas” will return to the Caribbean and Bahamas coasts from its home port in Fort Lauderdale.