Galveston Steve Posted September 14, 2022 Report Share Posted September 14, 2022 Icon of the Seas is slated to launch in about a year from now. On this Summer's President's Cruise Michael Bayley said they would have a big social media rollout for Icon of the Seas around the September time frame. Then the teaser video dropped on August 10. Cool. Then Episode 1 on August 18. Nice. Followed by dead silence for nearly 4 weeks. Certainly this revolutionary ship deserves more social media attention leading up to the opening of bookings only a year out. We still pretty much know nothing about ship venues, restaurants, entertainment, home ports, itineraries. I'm surprised they haven't started to sprinkle a few more teasers with maybe the name of a new venue, an original production show, new restaurant concept, something. What am I missing? Baked Alaska and Al Miller 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate91 Posted September 14, 2022 Report Share Posted September 14, 2022 I think I heard something somewhere on this forum, or maybe another, about a big launch event or ad campaign in New York City sometime in Sept for Icon? Cannot remember where I saw it or confirm whether true. Other than maybe waiting on that (which may indicated that she will homeport in NJ), maybe there has been a delay on Icon and she won't debut as early as expected? Really no idea, just theories. Galveston Steve and RCIfan1912 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCIfan1912 Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 4 hours ago, nate91 said: I think I heard something somewhere on this forum, or maybe another, about a big launch event or ad campaign in New York City sometime in Sept for Icon? Cannot remember where I saw it or confirm whether true. Other than maybe waiting on that (which may indicated that she will homeport in NJ), maybe there has been a delay on Icon and she won't debut as early as expected? Really no idea, just theories. I hadn't heard the rumor Icon might homeport here in NJ? Oh that would be amazing though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twangster Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 I imagine a project the size of a ship has got to be dealing with supply chain issues. I know my work projects are all kinds of screwed up with lead times growing from 60 days to 18 months for some major systems. It could be as simple as they need 10,000 lifejackets but can only source 1,000 right now. Stuff that was taken for granted as being readily available just isn't right now. Need 4,000 TVs? Sorry, the best we can do is ship 500. The point is it has to be very hard to nail down a commitment for finishing the ship. They almost didn't meet Wonder's inaugural date so they have to have learned to be more conservative setting an inaugural date. The big party whenever that may be will need to know the inaugural date to make the big splash and open it for sales. They can't open it without showing deck plans so they need the big media event first which needs the inaugural date to be pretty firm. It very conceivable it's not going to finish on time. Baked Alaska, Dlove707, Pattycruise and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oliver Posted September 15, 2022 Report Share Posted September 15, 2022 Completely agree. I think it’s completion date will slip. Galveston Steve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robmtx Posted September 16, 2022 Report Share Posted September 16, 2022 The announcement has been slightly delayed due to the passing of the Queen. The announcement was supposed to be made onboard Oasis of the Seas, currently sailing from Bayonne (NY) area. RCIfan1912 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evantra Posted September 16, 2022 Report Share Posted September 16, 2022 Supposed to be this week! I am sure we will hear something before end of month RCIfan1912 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCIfan1912 Posted September 17, 2022 Report Share Posted September 17, 2022 When will we get a full look at the design of this thing already? Artist renderings would be great too. We still don't have the full dimensions of this ship either. Yeah I'm getting impatient. Galveston Steve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDJ Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 Icon of the Seas Continues to Take Shape at the Meyer Turku Shipyard (cruisehive.com) See the latest video in the link above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xaa Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 hour ago, SDJ said: Icon of the Seas Continues to Take Shape at the Meyer Turku Shipyard (cruisehive.com) See the latest video in the link above. I prefer to watch the video from the article on this site. https://www.royalcaribbeanblog.com/2022/09/22/royal-caribbean-teases-new-features-coming-icon-of-the-seas JC Pats, Matt and Galveston Steve 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 1 hour ago, Xaa said: I prefer to watch the video from the article on this site. JohnK6404, rjweber3, fireclan and 1 other 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike6453 Posted September 23, 2022 Report Share Posted September 23, 2022 they did say originally there would be a marketing event in NYC but that was it, I don't believe there was any mention of the homeport of the ship. They did confirm that its inaugural cruise would be out of Southampton UK. So that could have it arriving in NY/NJ or Florida. RCIfan1912 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireFishII Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 I am confused that it is taking this long to setup its inaugural cruise. The other royality line has a new class of ship coming out in Feb 2024 and they have already released the first three cruises for bookings. When does RCL usually open the bookings for new cruise ships? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GKMCruising Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 1 hour ago, FireFishII said: I am confused that it is taking this long to setup its inaugural cruise. The other royality line has a new class of ship coming out in Feb 2024 and they have already released the first three cruises for bookings. When does RCL usually open the bookings for new cruise ships? As stated above, it's likely they're running into supply issues. The inaugural for Wonder was in April of this year and went on sale in September 2021, so 7ish months lead time? And that was after the last-minute pivot to a US homeport from Asia. FireFishII 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireFishII Posted October 11, 2022 Report Share Posted October 11, 2022 1 hour ago, GKMCruising said: The inaugural for Wonder was in April of this year and went on sale in September 2021, so 7ish months lead time? And that was after the last-minute pivot to a US homeport from Asia. Thanks, that is what I was looking for - 7ish month lead time. It is funny how one company does it with 7 months while a different company does it with 17 months. But as my brother reminded me - don't plan on cruising on the actual published date - because lots can happen and the ship launch could be delayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan adams Posted October 12, 2022 Report Share Posted October 12, 2022 Supposed to be an update oct. 18th. MTNeedsAVacay and FireFishII 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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