World's largest cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas, sails on inaugural trip

History was record­ed on Sunday, June 5, 2016 in Barcelona, Spain when the biggest and most luxurious cruise ship in the world, the popular Har­mony of the Seas, made its in­augural sailing. A feat in the global circle of cruise tour­ism development, the ship made its voyage to Barcelona with as many as at least 4,500 guests on board.

The cruise ship, built by the French and regarded as a ‘wonderful engineering feat of the century,’ made its way to the home of Barce­lona Football Club in Spain from the Southampton Port in the United Kingdom be­fore reaching its destination, billed as its summer base for its Mediterranean journeys, on Sunday.

Apart from being the wid­est cruise ship ever built with the capacity to carry 6,780 guests, the wonder of a ship is also taller than the Eiffel Tow­er while boasting more than 2,500 staterooms, 20 dining venues, 23 swimming pools and a park with more than 10,000 plants and 50 trees.

Before arriving in Barcelo­na, the Harmony of the Seas, built at a cost of more than $1bn in the course of over three years, docked in Vigo in the northwest and at Mal­aga, dwarfing the small Med­iterranean port.

Harmony of the Seas, re­garded as being in a world of luxury of its own, parades not only the finest sophisti­cation in fittings and fixture, but ensures that every item on board is of standard. It is the 25th ship to join the Royal Caribbean International fleet.

Having taken a total of 2,500 workers to build at the STX France ship yard in Saint-Nazaire and some 10 million work hours, work on the enormous vessel began 32 months ago in 2013.

The Harmony of the Seas, simply a wonder to behold with the impressive and large­ly irresistible array of luxury facilities, is a grand invest­ment not just in the arena of tourism but as far as human development goes in recent times.