Here Are the 14 New Cruise Ships Entering Service in 2024

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• Viking Saturn Continues Viking Ocean's Run of Excellence
• Our Largest, Most Premium Stateroom With Accommodations for Up to Five Guests
• Viking Vela Will Mark a (Slight) Change in the Viking Ocean Fleet
• MSC World America
• Cabana With Exclusive Deck Access
• Resilient Lady Brings Virgin Voyages to the Greek Isles, Australia
• Wonder of the Seas Will Be the World's Largest Cruise Ship
• Be Spellbound on Sun Princess

A major feature of the futuristic-looking ship is the Sky Lounge, an innovative space designed to extend outward, maximizing the interior while offering passengers a unique experience. The lounge can also be retracted back into the vessel’s hull, minimizing wind resistance. Meyer Werft has a name to uphold when it comes to design and innovation as the world’s biggest cruise ship builder.

Viking Saturn Continues Viking Ocean's Run of Excellence

Hurtigruten's plan for its first zero-emission ship -- currently dubbed "Sea Zero" -- began in March 2022. We’re also excited by the itineraries that Emerald Azzurra will sail, which include its debut in the Red Sea in January 2022. The yacht will then move to the Mediterranean and sail into small Croatian and Greek ports, as well as itineraries that focus on Italy and France. The Bolt roller coaster aboard sister-ship Mardi Gras is one of the line's biggest hits, and Carnival Celebration will also feature Bolt, the line's popular roller coaster at sea.

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The cruise ship will also likely visit the cruise line’s marine reserve in the Bahamas, Ocean Cay. Water is the theme of the ship and it will have the largest cruise ship swimming pool as well as an insane waterpark with six water slides on the top deck. While Perfect Day at CocoCay features amenities like waterslides and a wave pool, Perfect Day at Lelepa will provide a more tranquil, traditional beach day for visitors. In addition, it will be the world’s first private cruise destination to achieve carbon neutrality, and all energy consumed on the island will be generated from renewable resources. While Royal Caribbean currently has orders in place for three Icon Class cruise ships and Utopia of the Seas, the coming years may see more orders placed for new cruise ships.

Viking Vela Will Mark a (Slight) Change in the Viking Ocean Fleet

Viking uses the same design team for its river and seagoing ships, and it has benefited from years of devising ways to optimize space on its river vessels. The company brought this culture of efficiency to its seagoing ship design, along with its policy of consistency. While most cruise brands generate a series of new classes, Viking’s river and seagoing vessels are virtually identical to one another. Harri Kulovaara, executive vice president of maritime and newbuilding for Royal Caribbean Cruises, has led the design and construction of highly innovative ships for all the company’s brands. He was involved with the creation of the central promenade on Royal Caribbean Oasis-class ships and most recently worked on Azamara Club Cruises’ Azamara Pursuit and Celebrity Edge. Kulovaara credits the company’s cutting-edge virtual reality and computer modeling tools, which allow teams to quickly visualize new features and how they will impact the projected ship design as a whole.

MSC World America

Several months ago, Disney Cruise Line announced that they had purchased the unfinished Global Dream after the parent company of the cruise ship went bankrupt. If there was one future cruise ship that you should sail on, Icon of the Seas should be the one. While the cruise ship will be similar to the Oasis class with a Central Park in the middle and a split aft, it will be an experience unlike any other and a class of its own.

Cabana With Exclusive Deck Access

Expect to see features that were made popular on Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Apex, such as the Magic Carpet movable deck that does triple duty as a restaurant, a bar and an embarkation area. The 6,334-passenger ship will be powered by liquid natural gas and be the third in the line's Meraviglia-Plus Class. While details on the ship are still light, expect it to resemble sibling ships MSC Grandiosa and MSC Virtuosa.

The ship will also have a new restaurant with outdoor dining, Tramonto, with a Mediterranean-inspired menu. Within river crusing, AmaWaterways is expanding not only the number of its ships, but adding a brand-new destination. For luxury lovers, Silversea and Explora Journeys will release siblings to ships that came in 2023.

In a tail-wags-the-dog scenario, seagoing ship design is drawing inspiration from European river cruising, which has creatively addressed issues of efficiency and optimal use of space because of the constraints on ship size. A notable example is Celebrity Edge’s 918 Infinite Verandas, where each balcony can be adapted as an inside or outside space. NCL has displayed renderings of its Leonardo-class ships (scheduled for 2022 through 2025), which will feature spacious condo-like accommodations at the stern.

Be Spellbound on Sun Princess

From the Dome to Princess Arena to the Sphere, Sun Princess will be unlike any other Princess cruise ship that is currently sailing. A few are very high-end, including the first ship from the new Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, but many are more affordable — fun for a cruise with kids or a grownup getaway. Jenna DeLaurentis enjoys exploring new ports of call around the world on a cruise ship, learning about new cultures, discovering beautiful landscapes, and trying diverse cuisine.

In final stages of construction at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in France, the 456-guest cruise ship is set to welcome its first paying guests on September 19, 2024. According to Petu Kummala, director of interior design and architecture for Carnival Cruise Line, cruise ships keep the same overall appearance in order to hark back to the glory days of sea travel. As ORIGIN moves from concept to potential reality, we can be fairly certain that we will be seeing some of the designs onboard the cruise ships of the future. Meyer Werft’s approach with ORIGIN is a step away from the propulsion and power generation innovation that we’ve seen onboard concept ships in the last years and instead focuses on making cruise ships more efficient. If an impressive vessel like this were ever constructed, it would use the most up-to-date technologies at that time.

The ship will debut in Alaska in summer 2022, running an itinerary that includes big name marquee ports and smaller, out-of-the way locales. With Seabourn Venture, the luxury cruise line Seabourn leaps into the high-end expedition trend. The 264-passenger ship will have two custom-built submarines as well as 24 zodiacs, kayaks– you also snorkel and scuba dive – and a full expedition team to explain all the natural wonders around you.

The ship will have four restaurants and debut a new version of Compass Rose, the ship's main dining room. Expect eye-catching sculptures, plenty of crystal and a menu that focuses on the most extravagant ingredients. The first of the line's Allura Class ships, Oceania's Vista will have a lot of new restaurants and features; understandably so, as it's the first newbuild for Oceania Cruises since 2012. Viking Ocean Cruises has hit on a formula for success for its small 930-passenger vessels -- and we know that Viking Saturn will continue that pattern.