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Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast

Can Star of the Seas top Icon?

Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast

Matt Hochberg

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Kids & Family, Royalcaribbeanblog Podcast

4.9663 Ratings

🗓️ 9 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

With Star of the Seas launching next month, one of the top questions many are asking is how can Royal Caribbean outdo itself with this new ship.

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0:00.0

Can Star of the Seas be better than icon of the Seas? Royal Carpade's next ship is coming out in

0:07.8

August, and I'm excited for it because it's a new ship. I love new ships. It's probably the most exciting

0:12.2

thing we get in the cruise industry. So with Star of the Seas coming up there, I started thinking

0:17.5

about it, is Star going to be a leap forward, or is it just going to be icon of the seas but from Port Canaveral?

0:24.1

This week I wanted to talk about this because it's kind of a concept as I'm looking forward to what we're planning from a content standpoint here at real urban blog.com.

0:32.7

It started dawning on me that while a new ship is always exciting, like I said, and I'm not pooh-pooing that at all,

0:38.5

there is that question of, like, what makes Star truly better? And if I were to ask you really

0:43.5

quick, besides Back to the Future, name one other change on Star of the Seas from Icon,

0:49.3

I'm waiting, still waiting, some of you are probably still struggling to answer that question.

0:54.8

You might say, well, the supper club.

0:57.2

Yeah, that's the answer, right?

0:58.6

Okay, so they're going to do a different supper club experience, which is not nothing

1:02.9

to poo about.

1:03.5

I already booked it myself.

1:04.5

So clearly, I'm sipping the Kool-Aid on this one.

1:07.3

I like that idea, and I'm all for it.

1:10.2

But, okay, what else is different?

1:11.7

Like, it's not going to be fundamentally different about that. And that's not necessarily a bad

1:16.0

thing. When you look at new ships in general, rural Caribbean, I've always thought, does a pretty good

1:20.9

job of differentiating ships from each other. Now, they're not going to be major changes.

1:26.8

Like, as an example,

1:27.6

if you look at Wonder of the Seas to Utopia of the Seas, which are Oasis Class ships, there are

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