It’s onerous to consider it was one 12 months in the past that Royal Caribbean’s large Icon of the Seas welcomed her first visitors and set sail for phenomenal trip reminiscences on January 27, 2024. And what a 12 months of reminiscences it has been!
The ship already has spectacular stats of its personal, however now the spectacular numbers are in from her first 12 months of crusing.
Icon of the Seas is homeported from Miami, Florida, providing 7-night Japanese and Western Caribbean itineraries. Meaning 52 iconic holidays supplied within the first 12 months, with a complete of 192,000 households welcomed onboard.
As Icon of the Seas has set sail, she has made 52 visits to Excellent Day at CocoCay, Royal Caribbean’s non-public island vacation spot within the Bahamas. Attempt the funnel cake at Snack Shack, you gained’t be sorry.
Along with visiting CocoCay, Icon of the Seas has stopped 180 occasions at different prime locations, together with making calls to Cozumel and Costa Maya in Mexico together with Roatan in Honduras for Western Caribbean itineraries.
On her Japanese Caribbean sailings, she visits Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas; Philipsburg, St. Maarten; and Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis.
The primary-of-her-class Icon of the Seas can welcome 5,610 vacationers at double occupancy, and as much as 7,600 visitors when totally booked with all berths stuffed. That’s a number of room for making iconic reminiscences on each crusing!
For 7,900 vacationers (and absolutely some crew members in that quantity), that has meant celebrating a birthday onboard Icon of the Seas. And for those who’re a cake-and-ice-cream kind of individual for a birthday celebration, you might have had one (or extra!) of the 1,594,467 ice cream cones served at Sprinkles over the previous 12 months!
In the event you choose a milkshake, you’ve gotten loved the identical deal with as 55,350 whole visitors – all of which have been served at Desserted, portside on Deck 16 within the Thrill Island neighborhood.
For passengers preferring a bit extra grownup libations, be a part of within the enjoyable at one of many 4 Lime and Coconut bars onboard, the place 44,070 drinks have been served over the previous 12 months.
Some visitors have even indulged in much more celebration as a part of the 96 ceremonial dinner experiences supplied at Celebration Desk – a really one-of-a-kind, unique, VIP possibility discovered on Icon of the Seas.
The enjoyable onboard Icon of the Seas isn’t confined to treats and celebrations, nevertheless. The ship presents excellent leisure. In simply the previous 12 months, that has included 426 stunt-filled ice reveals and 308 performances of “The Wizard of Oz” and “The Effectors: The Origin Story.”
Much more spectacular are the 449 performances of Aqua Motion!, the high-diving, high-energy, high-excitement aquatic present. Collectively, these performances have included a mesmerizing 28,736 excessive dives below the AquaDome.
Visitors who wish to attempt their very own adrenaline rush have loads of choices onboard Icon of the Seas, however none extra distinctive than the Crown’s Edge ropes course with its shock plunge right into a swooping zipline. Almost 15,000 visitors have conquered that problem previously 12 months – greater than 280 visitors every week!
All of this provides as much as a tremendous time for Icon of the Seas!
“It’s been an unbelievable 12 months for Icon of the Seas,” stated Michael Bayley, Royal Caribbean’s President & CEO on the ship’s first official anniversary. “An enormous because of the entire devoted crew who’ve put their coronary heart and soul in the direction of making this our most profitable product ever! Comfortable 1 Yr Icon!”
Up Subsequent for Icon of the Seas
The large, 248,663-gross-ton ship has no intention of slowing down, and can stay homeported from Miami for a minimum of the subsequent two years.
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However up subsequent is a brand new member of the family – the primary sister ship for Icon of the Seas, Star of the Seas, will debut on the finish of August 2025 from Port Canaveral, Florida.
Whereas the world’s two largest ships gained’t be homeported collectively, they’re positive to share a particular meetup in some unspecified time in the future – and gained’t that be a large event price celebrating with greater than 14,000 of your closest associates!
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