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Let me preface this by saying I have not been on Icon this is just observations. I'll be on Star September 2025. First off generally the class looks family friendly what Im talking about is the independence side of it. What I mean by not independent family friendly is for example on sea days on let's say Oasis Class ship, DW and I can post up in chairs at the beach pool and we feel confident to let our DDs (6 and 11) go play in the kids pool area right next door and do the slides while we can relax. Where as the splash area for my 6 yo is all the way down in the boardwalk isolated from other water stuff my 11 yo would want to do and doesn't have the same relaxing atmosphere as the beach pool does. This isn't at all a deal breaker for me just an observation. And I get that there are people that want those items separated to this degree. I will try to remember to come back and comment on this after we sail.

So excited for this. And no offense to the OGs who are awesome and I love all their blogs and want them to keep doing it and give us more. @Lovetocruise2002 don't hit me. But it will be great to get both and new perspective on Star coupled with a new ship.

We have a Surfside Family Suite booked on SOTS next September. I hope RC is learning from the Reviews on the kids pull out and changes it to a bigger couch or maybe figure out a way to do a ceiling pull down bunk. This issue seems to be one of the biggest negatives of the room. Not bad enough to make me change my booking. Thank goodness my girls are small. Other than that I still feel like the room is an incredible deal for the benefits.

I wanted to come back and answer this just incase anyone else was looking for information on this or was concerned like I was. First off the excursion was awesome. I would 100% recommend especially if you have childern they will love it. Also even though we were there during Spring Break and had what appeared to be a full boat out to the island, it didn't feel crowded on the island at all. Pigs were great and were treated well. As for my original post. We did get back right around 3:45pm. There were plenty of Taxis waiting. I just raised my hand and said Cruise port and immediate was ushered to a cab. No traffic back to port we were getting out of the cab just before 4:00pm. We had enough time to let Grammy buy some rum cake and get back on the ship before 4:20p so all my worry and tossing and turning the night before was for nothing.

Sorry to be that guy asking one of these types of questions. I truly am an experienced cruiser so it pains me to ask such a newb question. Doing this excursion next week and have a 8:00a to 5:00p time allotted in Nassau with this tour saying it gets you back to the Paradise Island Ferry Terminal at 3:45p. Is that enough time has anyone have experience with them? Also just curious of your thoughts on the excursion overall. Thanks!

Was the evening happy hour also honored in the Grove?

@Lovetocruise2002 Surfside Family Suites are a great deal all things considered and they are Sky Class. I booked on Star of the seas in Sep 2025 for a family of 4 (last cruise my oldest classifies as a kid rate) for just over 7k. I consider that a steal considering the ship and getting Sky class.

Question about the shows. With the high number of suites on this ship did they have a reserved section for suite guest at the show like O Class ships?

Thanks that's what I figured.

aww sad times I caught up. It was a delightful morning finding this live blogg this morning. Can't remember who mentioned it but 2 of you(it was so many pages and coffee sips ago) that the Suite Lounge seating is very close to the dinning seating and that there was a nice suite lounge corner in the back left. Can you take and post more pictures of this when you go to dinner tonight? @Lovetocruise2002

I searched for the answer to this and couldn't find it, so sorry if this has been answered many times. We are looking at a cruise that has kids sail free deals to it. However I know that with RC when they turn 13 they are no longer kids. My daughter will turn 13 during the cruise we are looking at, does that disqualify the discount?

No pictures of rooms near it on Cruisedeckplans for Symphony to be able to figure it out with alternating configuration. However on Harmony you can see 9672 which has it by the balcony so it should go. 9672 bed by balcony 9674 bed by bath 9676 bed by balcony 9678 bed by bath Harmony Deck 9 This is hoping that sister ships are the same which in the Symphony and Harmony case pretty they are.

My wife and I call it Wow Mother F@<#$%g Presto Coffee" Yes we are slightly childish

Looking at bidding on a Panoramic suite on Royal Up. My DW and I have been lucky enough to be in a loft suite on an Oasis Class ship. I know nothing can compare to that level but was wondering what some of of the difference and experiences people have had. I appreciate an info you can supply and if we end up doing it I'll come back and give my input as well. 1. We loved the happy hour before dinner in the Suite Lounge. Do they do that on Indy? 2. Does the lounge have the Presto MF coffee maker? 3. I did hear you get breakfast in a specialty restaurant. Is that worth it? 4. Anything else that was a perk that you might have enjoyed? Thanks As always I leave you with a Dad joke. What is the differences between a hippo and a zippy? One weighs almost 4 tons and the other is a little lighter.

Was just on Freedom and will be on Independence next. I've seen the articles that they removed the trampolines from the Skypad and while we were dock next to Independence in Coco Cay I could see that they were gone but I could not see what was in there now. Does anyone know what they put in them?