Icon of the Seas: Size, Capacity, Price and Her Roatán Calls

The Icon of the Seas is the largest cruise ship in the world, and she docks at Coxen Hole, in Roatán, about twenty times a year. I have lived on this island since 2014 and I watch her come in from my window.

This page gathers what people actually search for about this ship: her size, her capacity, what drives her price, and above all the one thing I can tell you that nobody else can, which day she is here.

How much does an Icon of the Seas cruise cost?

Let me be direct: I am not going to give you a price. That is not coyness, it is honesty. I sell shore excursions in Roatán, not cruises, and none of my suppliers carries one. Any figure I typed here would be copied from somewhere else, stale within weeks, and you would have no way of knowing which.

What I can tell you is what moves that price, because that part is stable:

• The season. School break weeks and the Christmas period are the most expensive of the year, and the gap against a September sailing is large.
• The length. Icon alternates six- to eight-night Caribbean itineraries. Those are not the same product.
• The cabin category. The gap between an interior cabin and a suite is the heaviest factor by far, well ahead of the date.
• How many people are in the cabin. The advertised fare is almost always per person at double occupancy. A third and fourth guest change the arithmetic entirely.

⚖️ Check the price with Royal Caribbean or your travel agent, for your date. And if there is one thing I can actually save you money on, it is the day ashore, not the cabin: excursions sold on board are sold in large groups, in English, with a margin on top.

Her size, and what it really means

1,198 ft (365 m) long. Her gross tonnage is roughly 248,655, about five times the Titanic’s but only 1.36 times her length. The modern giant is not a stretched Titanic, she is a Titanic stacked upward: 19 decks against 10, and 213 ft of beam against 92.

I wrote the full comparison, contradictory figures sorted out, in Icon of the Seas vs Titanic.

Capacity: 5,610, 7,600 or 9,950?

All three numbers are correct, and they do not measure the same thing. This is where nearly every article misleads you.

• 5,610: double occupancy, two people per cabin. This is the figure the port schedule carries, so it is the one that matters for a day in Roatán.
• 7,600: maximum capacity, every upper berth folded down. This is the headline figure.
• 9,950: the total including her 2,350 crew.

Star of the Seas vs Icon of the Seas

On paper the two are interchangeable: same class, same length, same capacity, same berth. In Roatán what separates them is the day, and it is remarkably regular. The table below computes it for each of them from the same register.

Where is she now, and what you do on her port day

Icon is under half the cruise passengers the port expects on her own day. It is the ships alongside her that make the crowd, not her. The port crowding barometer gives you the exact day of your call.

And if your ship posts a time that differs from the pier’s, it is not a time zone: I measured the gap on a real Icon call, and it is zero.