In the world of cruise ships, few stories are as dramatic and unusual as that of Genting Hong Kong’s Global-class vessels. What began as an ambitious vision to create the world’s largest cruise ships for the Asian market ended in…
Genting Hong Kong Announced some more intriguing details on their upcoming mega-ship class, the Deam-class. While at a travel trade show in China, Genting announced that the first of the 208,000gt Global-class will be called Global Dream. Some additional details:…
About a year ago, I wrote an in-depth analysis of Dream Cruises new Global-Class of ships. Let’s dive in even further! Up until now, really the only details we had were the renders and this vague description of some of…
Editor’s note: This article was originally posted on August 26, 2018. It has been updated to reflect what happened to Crystal Cruises after Genting Hong Kong’s collapse and the brand’s relaunch under Abercrombie & Kent. There’s a lot to unpack…
Genting group is a company that is quite diversified. The Malaysian company has casinos, the worlds largest hotel, a real estate company, a plantation company, several cruise lines and a shipyard consortium. The intention is to build the fifth largest…
UPDATE 2023: Disney has now purchased the vessel and released this rendering. An earlier version of the vessel included a slightly different arrangement of her funnels. There appears to be two sets of double funnels in this newly released one…
Genting Hong Kong, whom just recently transferred their Star Cruises newbuild to Dream Cruises, just announced a rather interesting figure about the Global Class newbuild. They reconfirmed that the ship will measure 204,000gt but they plan on having 2,500 cabins…
Browsing MV Werften website I found these high-res photos of Crystal’s new Endeavour expedition class vessel, as well as Star’s Cruises upcoming 200,000grt behomeath Global class: Both ships seem quite exciting, and I cant wait to see her deckplans. From…