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Celebrity Edge

Celebrity Cruises · Cruise · In service · built by Chantiers de l'Atlantique

Celebrity Edge led a new class in 2018 with the Magic Carpet — a cantilevered platform that travels vertically up the ship's starboard side — and cabins with no fixed balcony wall.

Length overall306 m
Beam39 m
Gross tonnage130,818 GT
Passengers2,918
Speed22 kn
Delivered2018
Our numbers

Derived metrics

Computed by ships.fyi from the core specification — see how we calculate these.

Passengers per metre#81 of 116
9.5 pax/m passengers (double occupancy) ÷ length overall
Length-to-beam ratio#87 of 142
7.85 length overall ÷ beam
Sense of scale

How big is it, really?

The Celebrity Edge's length overall, against things you already know the size of.

Celebrity Edge306 m
Eiffel Tower (height)330 m
Titanic269.06 m
Football pitch105 m
Boeing 747-876.3 m
Blue whale25 m
You (probably)1.75 m

The 747-8 held the longest-airliner record for over a decade, until Boeing's 777-9 took it by about 19 inches (76.72 m) — our sibling site aircraft.fyi measures everything that flies the same way.

One Celebrity Edge = 1.14 Titanics · 2.9 football pitches · 12 blue whales · 4.0 Boeing 747-8s laid end to end.

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Specification

The numbers

Length overall306 m
Beam39 m
Draught8.4 m
Gross tonnage130,818 GT
Passengers2,918 (double)
Staterooms1,467
Decks16
PropulsionDiesel-electric, 2 × ABB Azipod
Entered serviceDecember 2018

Last verified: 2026-07-15 · Spot an error? business@luck.fyi

The story

What makes it different

Celebrity Edge is the most architecturally adventurous mainstream cruise ship of the last decade, and it starts with the thing bolted to her side. The Magic Carpet is a cantilevered platform about the size of a tennis court that rides vertically up and down the starboard hull, serving as a tender platform at sea level, a bar in the middle of the ship and a restaurant at the top.

The second departure is the Infinite Veranda. Instead of a balcony separated from the cabin by a sliding door, the entire outer wall of the room opens — the window drops, a bifold door retracts, and the balcony becomes part of the living space. It divided opinion sharply and Celebrity kept it anyway.

She also dropped the traditional wraparound promenade deck entirely, which is why her profile looks less like a conventional cruise ship than almost anything else afloat. Six ships have been ordered on the design, running to 2028 — so the gamble evidently paid off.

The class

The Celebrity Edge line

Edge class
Lead ship of six, built 2018–2028. The first two are 306 m and 130,818 GT; from Celebrity Beyond the hull was stretched to 327 m and 140,600 GT.
The Magic Carpet
A cantilevered platform roughly 27 m by 12 m mounted on the starboard side, moving between deck 2 and deck 16 and changing function at each level — tender platform, bar, or restaurant.
Operators

Who operates the Celebrity Edge

All 1 operator of record, verified 2026-07-15. Figures marked ≈ are approximate.

CELCelebrity CruisesCaribbean and Mediterranean itineraries.1
Quick answers

Celebrity Edge, asked and answered

How long is the Celebrity Edge?
306 m (1,004 ft) length overall — the #93 longest of the 142 ships on ships.fyi, and 2.9 football pitches end to end.
How big is the Celebrity Edge compared to the Titanic?
The Celebrity Edge is 1.14× the Titanic's length — 306 m against her 269.06 m. By volume the gap is starker still: 130,818 GT against Titanic's 46,328 GRT — roughly 2.8 times the tonnage, measured across two different rule eras.
Who operates the Celebrity Edge?
Celebrity Cruises. Current status: in service.
Does the Celebrity Edge fit through the Panama Canal?
Not the original locks — but yes through the 2016 Neopanamax locks: at 306 m by 39 m on a 8.4 m draft she clears the 366 × 51.25 × 15.2 m expanded gauge.