ICON CLASS UPDATE

[AshleyDillo]

The registered trademarks are always fun for speculation.

https://uspto.report/company/Royal-Caribbean-Cruises-L-T-D

[GKMCruising]

25 minutes ago, AshleyDillo said:

The registered trademarks are always fun for speculation.

https://uspto.report/company/Royal-Caribbean-Cruises-L-T-D

Here's hoping that milkshake bar is gonna be replacing Johnny Rockets.

[twangster]

2 hours ago, Marlena said:

So right now you can book sailings up until April 2024....any guess if it will be the same for icon? Only letting jan - April sailings be booked at this point?

Ask again a week from now.  No one knows.

[JuanF]

Nothing for me as of right now

[mattymay]

5 hours ago, SpeedNoodles said:

Are you able to book it?

IT'S GO TIME!!!

 

[Mike.s]

Can book in the UK, but the prices have scared me off!! £3220 for a surfside suite, even an inside cabin was over £1100

[berkeleykel]

Priced out the Ultimate Family Townhouse for August...£56,000 for 2 adults, 2 kids 

[CruisingSteve]

In case you are wondering how much a suite is

[Jill]

Hmmmm no matter what date I choose, ocean balcony shows me the exact same cabins on deck 12 and the same infinite balconies on deck 9. That’s all that’s available period for all 3 sailings. Weird. 

[Ampurp85]

This pricing is cookoo bananas, I knew it would be expensive but $20k for a suite for 2/4 pax is crazy. 

[GKMCruising]

Gonna be waiting here too. My daughter's still gonna be too short to do most of the water slides, so there's no sense in paying 4k for a sailing on the inaugural where we're not all going to be able to enjoy the full experience. We'll wait a year or two, let the price come down and let her get taller.

[SpeedNoodles]

It's open? I still get the "explore now" page.  Although I doubt it matters.  Not sure I want to spend that kind of money at this time either.

[berkeleykel]

2 hours ago, berkeleykel said:

Priced out the Ultimate Family Townhouse for August...£56,000 for 2 adults, 2 kids 

$70,000 on the US site.  $99,000 sticker price before discounts applied.

[berkeleykel]

23 minutes ago, SpeedNoodles said:

It's open? I still get the "explore now" page.  Although I doubt it matters.  Not sure I want to spend that kind of money at this time either.

If you do a normal search it should come up as an option if you filter by ship.  May need to sign in first.

[AspiringCruisePlanner]

1 hour ago, Jill said:

Hmmmm no matter what date I choose, ocean balcony shows me the exact same cabins on deck 12 and the same infinite balconies on deck 9. That’s all that’s available period for all 3 sailings. Weird. 

Same issue here.  It appears that only opened some of the balconies for this launch day.  Not sure why...

[AspiringCruisePlanner]

39 minutes ago, berkeleykel said:

If you do a normal search it should come up as an option if you filter by ship.  May need to sign in first.

Normal search is open.  No sign in required.  Don't know why they state early booking available a day early for C&A when they open it up to everyone on the same day.

[smokeybandit]

17k for a grand suite. That's Disney pricing.

 

Yeah, gonna have to pass

[CGTLH]

Picking a not so random sail date, this was the pricing for the Royal Loft and Ultimate Family Townhouse based on two and three guests.

Per person, two guests.

Per person, three guests.

[castle25]

So the inside PLUS cabins are 1 sq ft larger than the normal inside - RC you are ripping us off big time!!

[CrimsonCruiser]

Looks like dates are open until Jan April 2025 for Icon. I'm not signed in, just doing a regular search as a regular guest.

(side note, I got so excited seeing fall 2024 dates then I saw the prices T_T)

[KevinJ]

Looks like three of us in a veranda ocean view will be around 6k, we’re spending less for our 15 day transatlantic. We’re going for it anyway.

[Lexster]

I'm going to try for the inaugural cruise. My travel agent said she's going to give me a call today to get me booked. I'm pretty excited to get to do this even if it is pricey.

[PPPJJ-GCVAB]

Just booked for November 2024.  Peter and I will be celebrating our 45th anniversary while on the ship!  Super excited.  Not telling him yet...LOL...he thinks I am "cruise crazy"!!  What????  

[GKMCruising]

Thanks as always, Royal IT.

 

[Geoff P]

Lol just priced out a balcony cabin for 2 adults and 2 young kids…had to double check the website when I saw the price to make sure I was on RCL and not DCL, wow

[AlmondFarmer]

I booked November 30, 2024.

Got the new family balcony.

The three level apartment was $65K.

[AshleyDillo]

3 hours ago, Jill said:

Hmmmm no matter what date I choose, ocean balcony shows me the exact same cabins on deck 12 and the same infinite balconies on deck 9. That’s all that’s available period for all 3 sailings. Weird. 

I have a feeling they're blocking 2 passengers from booking into the cabins that can hold 3+ currently, and there are a LOT of cabins that can hold that many!

[PPPJJ-GCVAB]

11 minutes ago, AshleyDillo said:

I have a feeling they're blocking 2 passengers from booking into the cabins that can hold 3+ currently, and there are a LOT of cabins that can hold that many!

I was only able to book a deck 12 balcony room.  Hopefully down the line I can find something perhaps one or two decks lower?  It does seem odd that for all the dates I looked at before booking there are not a lot of rooms to choose from!  Can't possibly be that ALL THE DATES AND ALL THE ROOMS are booked already!!!!!!

[JohnK6404]

25 minutes ago, PPPJJ-GCVAB said:

I was only able to book a deck 12 balcony room.  Hopefully down the line I can find something perhaps one or two decks lower?  It does seem odd that for all the dates I looked at before booking there are not a lot of rooms to choose from!  Can't possibly be that ALL THE DATES AND ALL THE ROOMS are booked already!!!!!!

They must be holding a ton of cabins back... they reported 738 Ocean View balconies on Icon... no way they sold all of them out months after the inaugural sailing on day 1 (I got the same result for sailings in MAY 2024... Deck 12 only).

[Jill]

30 minutes ago, AshleyDillo said:

I have a feeling they're blocking 2 passengers from booking into the cabins that can hold 3+ currently, and there are a LOT of cabins that can hold that many!

That’s what sharla told me 

[Jill]

Does anyone know if you can open infinite balconies between cabins like you can on regular balconies? I have a feeling the answer is no as balcony sidewalls I would imagine are solid

[karl_nj]

11 minutes ago, Jill said:

Does anyone know if you can open infinite balconies between cabins like you can on regular balconies? I have a feeling the answer is no as balcony sidewalls I would imagine are solid

On Celebrity Edge, the answer is no.  I would assume the same for Icon of the Seas.

[JohnK6404]

42 minutes ago, Jill said:

Does anyone know if you can open infinite balconies between cabins like you can on regular balconies? I have a feeling the answer is no as balcony sidewalls I would imagine are solid

Doesn't look like you can... seems like it's effectively just an extension of the cabin with a large window that opens. They look really nice, but I'm not sure how they keep the heat out of the rest of the cabin with the window open. I'm assuming you lose the benefits of a traditional balcony which keeps the sound and heat out of the cabin with the balcony door closed.

 

 

[Mike.s]

46 minutes ago, JohnK6404 said:

Doesn't look like you can... seems like it's effectively just an extension of the cabin with a large window that opens. They look really nice, but I'm not sure how they keep the heat out of the rest of the cabin with the window open. I'm assuming you lose the benefits of a traditional balcony which keeps the sound and heat out of the cabin with the balcony door closed.

 

 

It's not a balcony, it's a cabin with an opening window. They've had very mixed reviews on the Celebrity forums.

[Susie]

Wow!!! really expensive.  I will pass it for now.

[BrianB]

I booked this morning. I was able to get a Sky Junior Suite for a b2b the last week in September and the first week in October. I’m sailing solo and I didn’t think that the price was ‘outrageous’…just borderline high. I was lucky to be able to get the same suite for both sailings, so no changing midway through.
When I checked a few hours later, there was only one Sky Junior left on one of the sailings and the price had increased by over 30% to the ‘outrageous’ level.
Supply and demand at work.

[SpeedNoodles]

I had my FitBit set to wake me up every 30 minutes last night to check to see if bookings were open.  And then I took a Benedryl because I'd been out to the farm and I was all kinds of wheezy.  So.....I slept through entire "prices not outrageous" portion of the booking.  Never once felt my Fitbit vibrate, which always wakes me up. 

[GKMCruising]

36 minutes ago, BrianB said:

I booked this morning. I was able to get a Sky Junior Suite for a b2b the last week in September and the first week in October. I’m sailing solo and I didn’t think that the price was ‘outrageous’…just borderline high. I was lucky to be able to get the same suite for both sailings, so no changing midway through.
When I checked a few hours later, there was only one Sky Junior left on one of the sailings and the price had increased by over 30% to the ‘outrageous’ level.
Supply and demand at work.

If I wanted something other than the inaugural, there were definitely some "high but reasonable" options. That said, it's honestly for the best since my daughter can't do the slides yet, so we'll likely wait until Fall 2025 when we can guarantee she'll be tall enough to ride everything she wants to.

[JohnK6404]

Wow! Went back in and checked a number of sailings in MAY 2024 that I looked at this morning and was able to select a cabin... cannot select your cabin now. Defaulting to Guaranteed Stateroom for the OV Balcony category... what?

Edit: May be a system glitch... ALL categories defaulting to guaranteed staterooms right now for me (Interior, Ocean View, Balcony).

 

 

Also, suites sold out?

 

[twangster]

16 minutes ago, JohnK6404 said:

Wow! Went back in and checked a number of sailings in MAY 2024 that I looked at this morning and was able to select a cabin... cannot select your cabin now. Defaulting to Guaranteed Stateroom for the OV Balcony category... what?

 

It's almost like they have halted sales... or their platform partially crashed.

Nearly everything is unavailable except for GTY OV and Int.