Royal Caribbean Confirms Its Working On New, Smaller Ship Class

Above, Majesty of the Seas docked in Havana Port in 2019. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

In 2019, a friend and I took a cruise to Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba aboard Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas. 

A year later, the ship was sold. Then the pandemic hit. Since then, Majesty has been sitting unused in Greece. It is a 33 year old ship.

It was not a mega-ship that Royal Caribbean has been putting into service in recent years. It had a capacity of over 2,800 passengers. 

Yahoo! Life has posted an article stating that Royal Caribbean is working on a new class of smaller cruise ships.

They begin with:

Royal Caribbean has been talking about smaller ships for a very long time. It seems that every time the cruise line launches a new Icon or Oasis-class ship, its executives get hit with multiple questions about when they will build smaller ships.

In recent years, the cruise line has not exactly dodged these questions. Royal Caribbean Group CEO Jason Liberty and Royal Caribbean Group CEO Michael Bayley have openly admitted that a smaller class has been talked about.

Neither, however, has given out much information.

Passengers want new, smaller ships because these ships can stop in ports where the larger ships do not fit. Some cruise line passengers also preferred the intimacy of a few people being onboard.

I also prefer smaller ships. 

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