Star of the Seas Itinerary: Where She Sails, and the Day She Is in Roatán
She sails seven-night round-trips out of Port Canaveral, and on the Western Caribbean run she calls where I live. Here is her schedule in Roatán, read from the port register, and what nobody else can tell you about her day ashore.
The Star of the Seas entered service in 2025 and is, for the moment, the largest cruise ship afloat. She sails seven-night round-trips from Port Canaveral, near Orlando, and on her Western Caribbean weeks she calls where I live.
I have lived in Roatán since 2014. This page gives you her schedule here, read from the port register and recomputed every time the site is rebuilt, plus the specifications that people actually look for.
Where does the Star of the Seas sail?
Her programme is built around a single homeport, Port Canaveral, and two alternating seven-night routes: Western Caribbean and Eastern Caribbean. Both include Royal Caribbean’s private destination, Perfect Day at CocoCay. There is also a shorter four-night sailing in the mix.
Roatán is on the Western Caribbean week.
⚓ Let me be straight about what this page is good for. Royal Caribbean publishes the full itinerary, and they publish it better than I ever could: every port, every sea day, every date. I have one port out of five to eight. What I have that they do not is what happens on that one port day, hour by hour, from the ground.
When does she call at Roatán?
This is the part I am probably alone in being able to write, because it comes from the port register rather than a brochure.
She berths at Coxen Hole, and the day is remarkably regular: almost always a Wednesday or a Thursday. The table below counts her calls over the next twelve months, gives her most frequent hours, and tells you what share of the port’s crowd she represents on her own day.
⚠️ Do not trust port hours copied from anywhere else, including an “official” time taken from a different year. Call times change from date to date. The only hours that matter are the ones on your date, and that is what the port crowding calendar gives you.
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 call, and it is zero.
How big is she, and how many people are aboard?
1,198 ft (365 m) long, 213 ft (65 m) wide, 19 decks of which 12 carry cabins. Her gross tonnage is about 250,800, and she holds 2,805 cabins.
The number that tells you the most about how she feels is none of those: it is the passenger-to-space ratio of 34. That is how much enclosed volume there is per person aboard, and on a ship this size it is what separates a crowded day from a comfortable one.
⚠️ One figure not to smooth over. She is listed at 250,800 gross tons while her sister the Icon is listed at 248,655 in the same register’s specification table, and at 250,800 in its own body text. The two ships are not quoted at the same tonnage by the same source, so do not read “identical” into it. Against the Titanic’s 46,328 the multiple is the same either way: about five times.
As for capacity, three numbers circulate and they measure three different things: 5,610 at double occupancy, 7,600 with every upper berth folded down, and 2,350 crew on top. The port schedule uses 5,610, so that is the figure that matters for your day ashore. I sorted out why the three of them get confused, and what that does to a comparison, on the Icon of the Seas vs Titanic page.
Star of the Seas vs Icon of the Seas
They are sister ships: same class, same length, same capacity, same berth at Coxen Hole. On paper they are interchangeable.
In Roatán, what separates them is the day. The Icon calls on a Tuesday, the Star on a Wednesday or a Thursday. And across the entire published schedule for the next twelve months, they are never alongside on the same day — not once.
That matters more than it sounds. If you are choosing between the two and you care about how busy the island feels, the ship is not the variable. The day is. Her full numbers are on the Icon of the Seas ship page.
What to do on her port day
Nine hours alongside is a real day, not a rushed one. It is enough for the sandbar, the wreck, the mangrove and a proper swim, without watching the clock the whole time.
What I do not recommend is booking the day on board and discovering you are in a group of forty. The excursions below are small, private, and timed on your ship’s actual hours.
The numbers, read from the port register
Every figure in this table is computed at build time from the Roatán port schedule, read on September 8, 2026. None of it is typed in by hand.
| Cruise line | Royal Caribbean Cruises |
|---|---|
| Passengers (double occupancy) | 5,610 |
| Length | 1,198 ft / 365 m |
| Berth in Roatán | Coxen Hole |
| Calls over twelve months | 21 |
| Day of the week | Wednesday (12 of 21 calls) |
| Most frequent hours | 07:00 – 16:00 (on 12 of her 21 calls) |
| Alone at the pier | 0 never, across her 21 calls |
| Share of the port on her day | 33 % of the 17,204 cruise passengers the port expects on a median day |
| Sister ships calling at Roatán | Icon of the Seas Tuesday, 24 calls over twelve months Legend of the Seas no call in the next twelve months Hero of the Seas Tuesday, 1 call over twelve months |
⚠️ Hours change from call to call: only the exact date of your sailing counts.
Window: September 28, 2026 to September 28, 2027, as bounded by the register.
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