The ship was commissioned with reservation from Meyer Werft on October 7, 2013 and was originally intended to be in service for the Star Cruises shipping company . The ship was finally ordered on January 14, 2014. In October 2014 the name, Genting World ( 雲頂 世界 號 ), was announced. Construction began on February 9, 2015.
In November 2015, however, it was announced that the ship would instead go into service as a Genting Dream for the newly established Dream Cruises brand , also a subsidiary of Genting Hong Kong . The engine room section was laid on July 29, 2015 at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock and transferred to the Meyer shipyard in October 2015. As part of Meyer Werft's construction strategy , a first section was undocked on November 28, 2015. The keel-laying ceremony took place on December 3, 2015. On February 18, 2016, a second section was undocked to enable the Ovation of the Seas to undock . Both sections were then re-docked. On August 19, 2016, the Genting Dream was undocked. On 18./19. In September 2016 the Genting Dream was transferred over the Ems to Eemshaven , from where test drives on the North Sea took place.
The ship was handed over to the shipping company in Bremerhaven on October 12, 2016 and christened by Puan Sri Cecilia Lim in Guangzhou on November 13, 2016 . The ship cost 707.2 million euros, about 960 million dollars.
