You’ll have an amazing time! We enjoyed our week on Icon and the room is very good. What ports are you visiting? If Mark is your stateroom attendant, say “hi” for us.
Thanks for the post. When you say you paid the same as the balcony which tells me you paid around $3,500 to $4,000; for that I think it’s a steal. I would not be complaining. I do agree that $13K is due to over hype of the icon class and not worth the price. I would wait another year before the hyper dies down a bit.
To be perfectly honest, we looked to downgrade our room choice for months before our cruise because we were worried we wouldn’t get our moneys worth. When we were looking to downgrade the ocean view balcony, infinite veranda, and similar rooms were in the $5-6k range and we paid a bit more than the high end of that so it didn’t make sense to downgrade and lose the suite amenities and a better room. It’s still the most expensive cruise we’ve booked and a lot more expensive than the aft-facing junior suite we booked for our Greek Isles cruise. Icon prices seem to have stabilized and looking at October 2025 the balcony rooms are in the range you stated, which is a great thing. With Star and Icon3 right after that we can only hope this ship and this class become even more reasonable.
We stayed in the Family Surfside Suite and really enjoyed the Sky class amenities. We didn't mind facing into Surfside and did not find it noisy at all inside the room - only really heard "story time" on 1 evening. It was just 2 of us and I would only try it with 1 more person (preferably a small child in the nook area). We liked the split bathroom - but it only had a shower - which was really nice but both sides were small over all. We booked the Surfside Family Suite again for the Star and now I better make sure it's still Sky class otherwise i wouldn't think it was so great.😅
The surfside family suite dropping down to Sea class won’t happen until after May 2nd 2026 so you should be good with sky class. It was super tempting to change to a Surfside family suite before the cruise especially since we wanted Sky class but we wanted the Aft-facing view more and we had just done an interior balcony on Utopia. Maybe we’ll Royal Up or try to upgrade our Star of the Seas sailing to a Surfside suite to give it a go next year. Thanks so much for watching!
On Star of the Seas, it’s category JT and I believe there are only 4 of them on the entire ship. 10356, 10354, 10756, 10754. I entered 2 adults and 2 kids while searching just now and I had it pop up in September of 2025 and it was around $9,000. Maybe they changed the minimum capacity on Star to 4 people for this category. If you have less than that you can usually call and book it, that’s what Nicole and I did. Looks like the price is dropping too which is really good. It’ll probably go back up for sailings in May 2026 and after when those sky class benefits kick in.
Thank you for posting this video! We’re sailing in this room in a couple months, and it’s helpful to hear what it was like to spend a week in it.
You’ll have an amazing time! We enjoyed our week on Icon and the room is very good. What ports are you visiting?
If Mark is your stateroom attendant, say “hi” for us.
Thanks for the post. When you say you paid the same as the balcony which tells me you paid around $3,500 to $4,000; for that I think it’s a steal. I would not be complaining. I do agree that $13K is due to over hype of the icon class and not worth the price. I would wait another year before the hyper dies down a bit.
To be perfectly honest, we looked to downgrade our room choice for months before our cruise because we were worried we wouldn’t get our moneys worth. When we were looking to downgrade the ocean view balcony, infinite veranda, and similar rooms were in the $5-6k range and we paid a bit more than the high end of that so it didn’t make sense to downgrade and lose the suite amenities and a better room. It’s still the most expensive cruise we’ve booked and a lot more expensive than the aft-facing junior suite we booked for our Greek Isles cruise.
Icon prices seem to have stabilized and looking at October 2025 the balcony rooms are in the range you stated, which is a great thing. With Star and Icon3 right after that we can only hope this ship and this class become even more reasonable.
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I hear you. Great and honest feedback is always appreciated. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, appreciate you taking the time to watch.
We stayed in the Family Surfside Suite and really enjoyed the Sky class amenities. We didn't mind facing into Surfside and did not find it noisy at all inside the room - only really heard "story time" on 1 evening. It was just 2 of us and I would only try it with 1 more person (preferably a small child in the nook area). We liked the split bathroom - but it only had a shower - which was really nice but both sides were small over all. We booked the Surfside Family Suite again for the Star and now I better make sure it's still Sky class otherwise i wouldn't think it was so great.😅
The surfside family suite dropping down to Sea class won’t happen until after May 2nd 2026 so you should be good with sky class.
It was super tempting to change to a Surfside family suite before the cruise especially since we wanted Sky class but we wanted the Aft-facing view more and we had just done an interior balcony on Utopia.
Maybe we’ll Royal Up or try to upgrade our Star of the Seas sailing to a Surfside suite to give it a go next year.
Thanks so much for watching!
I cant find that room type on the star of the seas. Maybe its just a junior suite on Star. Every other suite room is already either sky or star.
On Star of the Seas, it’s category JT and I believe there are only 4 of them on the entire ship. 10356, 10354, 10756, 10754.
I entered 2 adults and 2 kids while searching just now and I had it pop up in September of 2025 and it was around $9,000. Maybe they changed the minimum capacity on Star to 4 people for this category.
If you have less than that you can usually call and book it, that’s what Nicole and I did. Looks like the price is dropping too which is really good. It’ll probably go back up for sailings in May 2026 and after when those sky class benefits kick in.