As cruise ship holidays grow in popularity, they are attracting more than just the old fuddy-duddies on board. Bingo and backgammon are great fun, don’t get me wrong, but I’m going to need more than a warm meal and a steady supply of hard liquor to entertain me at sea.

Enter the Royal Caribbean’s Harmony of the Seas, a ship that will be fit to carry almost 5 500 passengers upon its completion. So why on earth would you hop on a ship that size? Here’s the Daily Mail:

The 16-deck ship, which will have seven distinct neighborhoods and carry 5,479 passengers along with 2,394 crew members, received the last of its construction blocks earlier this week…

Once the massive vessel is complete, it will have three multi-story waterslides which will spiral over the Central Park area of the ship ten decks below…

At the onboard drinking establishment, robot bartenders will ‘serve up one-of-a-kind crafted cocktails while dancing to a fluid beat’…

In addition to 2,747 staterooms and 20 dining options, the Harmony will have two rock-climbing walls, zip lines, an ice skating rink, a full-size basketball court and a miniature golf course.

I hear you socially awkward person who spends most of your time trawling the interweb, what about the connectivity? Only the fastest internet connection at sea, so they say, which also means that the more pretentious out there can upload hundreds of pictures to Facebook so everyone knows how much fun you’re having.

[source:dailymail]