Royal Caribbean ship adds non-smoking casino in place of wine bar

Thursday, February 6, 2025 2:39 PM
  • Matt Hochberg, Royal Caribbean Blog

It looks like Royal Caribbean is doing something different and adding a new casino to one of its cruise ships in an unusual place.

Royal Caribbean’s Freedom of the Seas went in for its regularly scheduled maintenance work in January. The ship, built in 2006, arrived in at a shipyard in Cadiz, Spain for a three-week drydock.

Routine drydocks usually just consist of maintenance work, but it looks like a new idea is coming to Freedom.

Updated deck plans within the Royal Caribbean show the ship’s wine bar, Vintages, is being replaced.