''World Dream'' is a

cruise ship Cruise ships are large passenger ships used mainly for vacationing. Unlike ocean liners, which are used for transport, cruise ships typically embark on round-trip voyages to various ports-of-call, where passengers may go on tours known as "sho ...

that most recently operated for

Dream Cruises Genting Hong Kong Limited ( zh, 雲頂香港有限公司) was a holding company that operated cruise and resort businesses. It was headquartered in (海洋中心), Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (). It was p ...

. She was initially ordered under the same name for

Star Cruises Star Cruises was a cruise line headquartered in Hong Kong and operating in the Asia-Pacific market. The company was owned by Genting Hong Kong. It was the eighteenth largest cruise line in the world after Carnival Corporation, Royal Caribbea ...

. The ship was designed for the Asian cruise market and has a large number of restaurants together with a casino and specially designed cabins. She was formally named on 17 November 2017 by Cecilia Lim, wife of Genting CEO Lim Kok Thay, who became godmother of the ship. On 16 November 2017, Dream Cruises created an Lego model of the ship, the largest such model of a cruise ship, which is on permanent display at the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal in Hong Kong. The ship was originally designed and ordered for

, but she was transferred to Dream Cruises during construction. On 1 March 2022, Dream Cruises announced its World Dream Vessel to cease operations on 2 March 2022 after its last sailing return to shores on the 2nd of March.

History

Construction and service

''World Dream'' was ordered in February 2014 for Star Cruises and was

laid down Laying the keel or laying down is the formal recognition of the start of a ship's construction. It is often marked with a ceremony attended by dignitaries from the shipbuilding company and the ultimate owners of the ship. Keel laying is one o ...

on 29 July 2015. In November 2015, she was transferred to sister brand Dream Cruises. She was launched on 26 August 2017 and completed on 26 October 2017. ''World Dream'' measures at 150,695

gross tons Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume. Gross tonnage is different from gross register tonnage. Neither gross tonnage nor gross register tonnage should be confused with measures of mass or weig ...

and is long with a beam of . ''World Dream'' entered service for

in November 2017. Following the collapse of parent company ''Genting Hong Kong'' and subsequently ''Dream Cruises'', ''World Dream'' has been laid up in Singapore since March 2022, and is set to be sold at auction with sealed bids due by 21 December 2022. As for the rest of the fleet, World Dream's sister ship,

Genting Dream ''Genting Dream'' is a cruise ship of ''Resorts World Cruises''. The ship has a length of , a width of , a size of , and a top speed of over . The construction of ''Genting Dream'', the first ship of the cruise brand, Dream Cruises, was completed ...

has been charted out to ''Resorts World Cruises''.

Explorer Dream ''Explorer Dream'' is a ''Leo'' class cruise ship that most recently operated with Dream Cruises. She was built in 1999 by the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany as ''SuperStar Virgo''. Concept and construction ''SuperStar Virgo'' was ord ...

awaits its fate, from the creditors that own the vessel and Global Dream was sold to

Disney Cruise Line Disney Cruise Line is a cruise line operation that is a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. The company was incorporated in 1996 as Magical Cruise Company Limited, through the first vessel, ''Disney Magic'' and is domiciled in London, England ...

Coronavirus quarantine

Three passengers aboard ''World Dream'' during 19–24 January 2020 were confirmed to have been infected by COVID-19. On 5 February 2020, all 3,800 ''World Dream'' passengers and crew were put under quarantine on board the ship at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Cruise Terminal after Taiwan blocked its port of call in Kaohsiung. , checks of those on board were ongoing. The quarantine was lifted on 9 February 2020 after all 1,800 crew members were tested negative of the virus. The majority of the passengers were not tested as they had had no contact with the infected Chinese passengers who had been on the ship during 19–24 January. On 26 February the Indonesian Government evacuated their 188 citizens from ''World Dream'' using the hospital ship KRI ''dr. Soeharso''. All Indonesians that were aboard the cruise ship were taken to Sebaru Kecil Island which is part of the

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Regency in Jakarta. After that, they underwent 14 days of quarantine and observation.

References

External links

''World Dream'' cruise ship's page
at Dream Cruises {{Breakaway class 2017 ships Ships of the Dream Cruises Cruise ships involved in the COVID-19 pandemic