Our Honest Review of Icon of the Seas - The GOOD and the BAD

[@dohnjonnelly1]

It's super helpful to hear such candid post-inaugural trip feedback after the Icon ship has had time to settle into itself. Sounds like some of the more negative experience you had was accentuated by the bad weather and cruise guests having to be inside on the ship so much. Hopefully RC will take this feedback and create more dedicated quiet space for adults, like it has on its other ships. Thank you for the review!

[@GrantandMarisa]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed our review! 😊

[@sandydavila6887]

"It's like the Winchester Mystery House of pool decks."

[@GrantandMarisa]

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[@jimwoods9256]

Thank you so much for an honest review of this ship. Most all the other reviews , I are not anywhere near accurate representation of the ship because they were done on the first sailing that was at half capacity .How can you do a review of a ship at half capacity? Plus a lot reviews were done by you tubers that got to go on the ship for free and or at a reduced cost.- There’s no way these reviewers will give 100% unbiased opinions on the ship in fear that won’t get invited on RC next newest ship. After seeing your review , we are not booking on Star of the Seas since it’s Icon sister-ship. The Icon has cool waterparks, pool, and all the ship has to offer .But not an upscale experience me and my wife looking for. We also don’t want to deal with all the unsupervised kids , jam pact pools/hot tubs. So it been a hard decision. Star of the seas or MSC World America “ yatch club experience “ They are both about same price for a balcony room. Me and my wife has booked MSC World America “ yatch club room.” Hopefully we made the right choice. The main thing is will get pools and hot tubs without a bunch kids in it and more of a luxury experience we looking for.

[@GrantandMarisa]

Thank you for your comment. We’re so glad our review was helpful. Yeah we hadn’t really heard much criticism about the ship from other KZbinrs, so we just wanted to give our honest opinions. Have an amazing cruise on MSC, that does look awesome!

[@GrantandMarisa]

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[@sandydavila6887]

I am disappointed to hear that there isn't a place to get away from noisy kids. We also go on cruises to relax.

[@GrantandMarisa]

Yeah. I think the icon class ships would really benefit from a solarium AND Hideaway areas.

[@tonyajenkins7800]

I didn't have that issue on the Icon. Kids stayed in the kids area.

[@GrantandMarisa]

Very jealous of the sailing you were on 🤣. That was definitely not the case for us.

[@sandydavila6887]

@@tonyajenkins7800 I am curious if your sailing was before or after Grant & Marisa's sailing. If your sailing was after and the kids stayed in the kids area, possibly, the surveys helped Royal to stick to rules. The other possibility is the parents that were on your sailing were more polite and respectable of other cruisers. Perhaps, there were less kids on your sailing. I just hope that our cruise does not have kids in the hot tubs when we want to get in them. I was thinking we would need to go to the hot tub late in the night.

[@brentpayne4215]

Have you been on liberty of the seas

[@GrantandMarisa]

We have not been on Liberty of the Seas. However, we have been on the sister ship, Independence of the Seas. It was many years ago but we really enjoyed it.

[@caleigh013]

I’m surprised to hear you liked the food. We just went on Icon and were overwhelmingly disappointed by the food. None of it was bad, just not great. We tried Giovanni’s on Icon and it was by far our least favorite meal of the whole cruise.

[@GrantandMarisa]

Thanks for watching! Sorry to hear you were disappointed with the food. I think with a lot of cruise food, it can be hit and miss for everyone. Overall, we had a pretty good experience with the food, but we've been on enough Royal cruises to know what to avoid (like Giovanni's), which might have helped.

[@sandydavila6887]

@@GrantandMarisa I totally agree about avoiding Giovanni's. Actually, I was disappointed by all of the specialty dinning.

[@MrChrisg0625]

If you havent done cruise in 2 years then demand has increased since then and thus larger crowds on ships

[@GrantandMarisa]

Good point. We do know that our most recent Symphony of the Seas and Odyssey of the Seas sailings were at full capacity though. I think it's because more families were on this sailing, which bumps up the normal 'capacity' levels as that's usually based on double occupancy. I also think this ship doesn't use it's size quite as efficiently as Oasis class.

[@brentpayne4215]

How are you

[@GrantandMarisa]

Thanks for watching! ❤️