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Embarkation day!! Exciting stuff , second cruise for icon , enjoy !

That ships looks awesome. I sense celebrity in my future

I’ve looked at every pic yall have posted. They’re outstanding quality. Also I couldn’t help notice it appears his icon long sleeve in that pic is performance fabric? If so, I’m totally getting one of those.

You sure you aren’t a staff writer/photog for Royal Caribbean blog? You might need to be on matt’s payroll

Party’s almost Over for the inaugural cruise. Thanks to our love bloggers taking time to post. You’re better people than me. Safe travels home to all. Maybe I’ll see some of you in August on her.

I plan to live at the suite lounge and sun deck bars along with trellis bar…. If I can ditch my kids

I’ll be on her in August with my two tots . Will be a lot more tots on that cruise I would imagine. Enjoy the relative lack of tots on that inaugural!

I can’t imagine there’s that many children on that ship given that’s it’s an inaugural and this time of year

I feel like such a dork wanting to be there hanging with people I’ve never met (you mods) but I do. Thanks to everyone posting. I know it can be a pain but I’m loving it.

I was laughing to myself that I must be doing something wrong as I’ve never seen any of this or been approached. It must be that my resting a-hole face repels them

That’s one hell of cruise by the sounds of it. Insane that you got propositioned for sex and drugs etc. I hope our march wonder cruise is more G-rated than your experience.

What is y’all’s impression of how the crowd flow is/would be at the Aquadome food hall if there were crowds ? I know the hallway appears narrow and if it’s really busy with lines at each stall, some have said that would be a problem .

This live blog is dang exciting. I love seeing the pics and the impressions from y’all . Keep it up , this is good stuff.

Thank you for your thoughtful response.

Im sure it’ll be 7000+ when I sail in August and be busy as hell aboard. Enjoy the lower numbers while you can .

Permit me to ask a question, please . Whats your theory on why the crew looked miserable? You think it was just specific to y’all’s sailing or in general ? I sailed wonder last December ‘22 and they seemed no different than usual (always friendly ) I ask as my family and I will be back on her in march for spring break thank you

I watched matt’s full ship tour which was excellent and excites me for our August cruise on icon. Anyone been to the playmakers yet? How is it ? How’s the new version of my favorite bar on any ship , trellis ?

Some serious royalcaribbeanblog heavy hitters on that cruise. It would be cool to be there to meet y’all.

Mercy I’m sure the suite lounge is pinnacle playground this cruise

Love the term “sweat grenade” I haven’t heard that one before.

Matt’s ship walk thru video is awesome

Hit and run as mentioned above.

Fascinating thread. Would read again.

Lots of RSV and flu around as well. It’s the season for sneezing and wheezing. A GI illness such as Norovirus scares me way more than Covid on a ship