HARMONIC CONVERGENCE Six Advances on the Biggest Cruise Ship Yet

Posted on 02/26/2016

Watch out, because railings and glass balconies haven’t all been installed. Wires dangle from ceilings and scaffolds and tarps are everywhere. Just three months away from her launch, Harmony of the Seas still looks like a puzzling construction zone inside.

Hundreds of specialists are working around the clock painting and plastering acres of elegantly curving walls and ceilings, meticulously setting tons of ceramic tiles, installing miles of lush carpeting and thousands of lights. Still to come are landscapers with a forest of plants, art installations and the 2,400 crew members who will make the beds, fire up the kitchens and bring the bars and stages to life for up to 6,400 guests.It’s taken more than two years for Harmony to be born in the shipyards of STX France, at the mouth of the Loire River. But that’s actually quick, considering the hundreds of thousands of pieces that had to come together flawlessly to build what Royal Caribbean International boasts will be the biggest, most entertainment-packed ship ever conceived.