If you are like me, you possibly can’t get sufficient updates on Royal Caribbean’s latest cruise ship, Icon of the Seas.
The new ship does not sail with passengers till January 2024, however what we have seen to date has created a ton of intrigue amongst cruise followers and even people who have by no means cruised earlier than.
With Icon of the Seas being the primary ship within the new Icon class, there might be numerous new ideas and venues onboard. Royal Caribbean hasn’t introduced all of them but. They will slowly reveal extra main as much as the ship’s launch, however within the meantime we take a look at a couple of of those areas.
Icon of the Seas could have greater than 40 meals and beverage ideas, with 23 of them fully new to Royal Caribbean.
Speaking of improvements, Icon of the Seas could have 26 new options by no means earlier than seen on a Royal Caribbean ship, which incorporates 15 new water experiences.
During an immersion session with Royal Caribbean’s Senior Vice President and Chief Product Innovation Officer Jay Schneider final month, extra idea artwork was shared of locations on Icon of the Seas we knew about and plenty of extra we didn’t.
I wished to share a have a look at what these new areas appear like to present you extra perception into what Royal Caribbean has deliberate.
Izumi sushi to go
Icon of the Seas could have the biggest Izumi ever. It may even have a brand new location in Central Park.
Izumi could have a “sushi to go” window, the place you possibly can order a bento field of sushi and take it elsewhere on the ship to get pleasure from.
Mr. Schneider was requested if the Royal Caribbean app could be used to order meals from the window, and he responded there wouldn’t a necessity for the app, because the turnaround time needs to be fairly fast because the choices are locked in.Â
Supper Club
In a earlier session, Mr. Schneider unintentionally leaked the title of the Supper Club venue. We bought a greater have a look at what this venue appears like, though no new info.
“There might be a brand new eating expertise. I’m not speaking about it but. This is an instance of eatertainment, so actually a mix of better of leisure and better of culinary. And so we’ll we’ll share extra on that have within the coming months.”
Mason Jar on Wonder of the Seas was first instance of eatertainment.
It seems this might be positioned in Central Park.
New leisure
There might be one other leisure venue coming to Central Park that hasn’t been introduced but.
“We’re bringing a devoted leisure venue to Central Park. We’re not speaking about what that’s but.”
Mr. Scheider mentioned including this venue, plus the Supper Club and different eating places, is supposed to evoke, “the spirit of creating an all in complete inhabitable neighborhood”.
Overlook
The Overlook Lounge is positioned within the AquaDome neighborhood, and it’s in entrance of the AquaTheater.
The Overlook Lounge could have 160 diploma views of the ocean and it is proper above the ship’s bridge,
Royal Caribbean designed this to be an important bar and lounge expertise.
New eating expertise in AquaDome
In addition to the Overlook Lounge, there are different eating experiences that might be added to the AquaDome.
“There’s really a few bars we’ve not talked about but…But there’s different adjoining bar experiences.”
In addition to the Hooked specialty restaurant, Mr. Schneider teased a have a look at a brand new eating expertise, “We have a brand new eating expertise that might be obtainable within the AquaDome, and it is adjoining to the open deck. So we’re fairly enthusiastic about that.”
Celebration desk
Another eating venue within the AquaDome might be Celebration Table.
Mr. Schneider described Celebration Table as, “a little bit of a hybrid of chef desk and celebration, as we lean into extra actually again to the second of individuals making an attempt to make experiences collectively.”
“Having this area, that may be one thing the place you can have a marriage celebration, or birthday celebration, or some superb expertise that you simply would possibly wish to have there, given the views that it has.”
The Lemon Post bar
Another new idea is The Lemon Post Bar, which is described as the primary “mommy and me bar”.
Located within the Surfside neighborhood, the concept is mother or dad can get a cocktail and their children can get a non-alcoholic cocktail.
Crew member areas
Royal Caribbean has re-imagined the crew areas on Icon of the Seas.
“It was actually about giving them the identical degree of finishings, therapies, experiences that our friends have.”
In developing with the crew areas, Mr. Schneider admitted the primary tackle crew areas was a failure, “a gaggle of architects and with some government enter, designed a crew cabin and we introduced all people by way of that have. And our crew. Hated the expertise, universally hated the expertise.”
“So what we did is we pulled a sequence of crew apart, set them down for a few weeks with our architects, and so they actually sketched out with the crew the cabin of the long run that they wished, not that what we might have designed in a vacuum.”
“We then reran crew by way of that from a testing perspective and overwhelming success from what they bought to see.”
The Grove
A brand new eating venue within the suites neighborhood known as The Grove.
Mr. Schneider mentioned friends can anticipate a lounge area, with an “uplifted sort of buffet cover model to go meals.”
1400 Bar
Opposite the Pearl, the place you enter the ship, would be the 1400 Bar.
It’s a little bit of an homage to of the particular new constructing course of to the hull quantity, as a result of each ship in-built a shipyard will get a hull quantity earlier than the ship really will get named. Icon of the Seas’ hull quantity was 1400.
“There’s a terrace seating outdoors of the 1400 bar, with nice seating overlooking the ocean.”