Icon of the Seas prices swing wildly: inside cabins have typically started around $200 a night per person, balconies from the high $200s, and suites anywhere from the high $300s to well past $2,500 a night. Budget another $150 to $250 a day per person for gratuities, drinks, wifi and extras on top.
What the advertised Icon of the Seas fare includes
The fare that pops up when you search for Icon of the Seas only covers the basics. You get your cabin, housekeeping once a day even if you’ve booked the cheapest interior room, meals in the Main Dining Room and the Windjammer buffet, a handful of casual spots, water, tea, coffee and a few juices, plus the Broadway-style shows and live entertainment that come free with the ticket.
What it doesn’t cover is alcohol, cocktails, speciality restaurants, wifi, the Deluxe Beverage Package, gratuities, or taxes and port fees. Those turn up at checkout or land on your onboard account as you go. For everything else on board beyond the price tag, our full Icon of the Seas ship guide covers the ship in more detail.
Icon of the Seas cabin prices by type
Every figure here is in US dollars, because that’s what Royal Caribbean International prices its Caribbean sailings in, even when you’re booking from the UK. AllAboardDeals, a fare-tracking firm that’s crunched tens of thousands of sailings, puts typical nightly rates at around $226 for interior cabins, $255 for oceanview, $269 for balcony and $485 for suites.
Those numbers move by the day depending on demand and sailing date, so treat them as a starting point rather than gospel.
| Cabin type | Typical rate per person, per night | Roughly, over 7 nights per person |
|---|---|---|
| Interior | around $180–$230 | around $1,250–$1,600 |
| Oceanview | around $255 | around $1,750–$1,800 |
| Balcony | around $240–$320, depending on season | around $1,700–$2,250 |
| Junior Suite and above | from around $360 | from around $2,500 |
| Suite (median across all suite types) | around $485, rising past $2,500 for Star Class | around $3,400, far higher for top suites |
- The cheapest inside cabin fares have worked out at about $207 per person, per night, or roughly $1,450 per person for a 7-night Caribbean sailing with taxes and fees already included.
- On the busiest holiday sailings, interior cabins started from around $3,570 per person and balconies from around $4,650.
- The ship’s inaugural sailing priced even higher, with balcony cabins from about $4,790 per person and suites from about $7,120.
- Icon’s biggest suite, the Ultimate Family Townhouse, priced at around $75,000 a week, and as much as $100,000 for the whole multi-level accommodation, not per person.
Want to see exactly where each cabin category sits on the ship before you compare prices? Our Icon of the Seas cabin and room guide breaks the layouts down deck by deck.
Mandatory extras: gratuities, taxes and port fees
Gratuities on Icon of the Seas aren’t optional, and they’re not baked into the headline fare. Royal Caribbean’s standard daily gratuity has run at around $18.50 per guest in non-suite cabins, and somewhere between $20.50 and $21.00 per guest in suites, so check the current figure when you book.
On top of that daily charge, an 18% gratuity gets added automatically to every drink and mini-bar item you buy, and spa or salon purchases carry a 20% gratuity.
The daily gratuity lands on your onboard account from the first night, which catches out plenty of guests who assumed it was already in the fare. Prepay it before you sail if you’d rather not think about it, or ask Guest Services to adjust what’s charged to your SeaPass account once you’re on board.
Taxes and port fees are usually bundled into the quoted price rather than added at checkout, though it’s sensible to confirm this for your own sailing.
Optional extras: drink packages, wifi and speciality dining
Drinks, wifi and speciality dining are where an Icon of the Seas bill grows fastest, and whether they’re worth adding comes down to how much you’d really use them.
Royal Caribbean’s Deluxe Beverage Package on Icon of the Seas has typically run at around $80 a day, rising to roughly $94 once the 18% gratuity lands on top. If you don’t drink much alcohol, there are cheaper options: a Refreshment Package covering mocktails, speciality coffee, soda, juice and bottled water has typically run around $31 a day, and a Classic Soda package around $13 a day.
- At close to $92 a day after gratuity, the Deluxe package generally only pays for itself if you’re having 6 to 8 drinks a day.
- One traveller’s published spending log put two people’s Deluxe packages at just under $1,000 for a 7-night cruise, working out at around $70 a day each, and called it worth the convenience.
Wifi through Royal Caribbean’s VOOM service has typically cost around $24 to $25 a day, and booking it before you sail saves roughly a quarter off that rate. Our cruise ship wifi cost-saving tips cover other ways to keep that bill down, and our Icon of the Seas drink package comparison runs through every tier in more detail.
Paying venue by venue, speciality dining has typically run $38 to $59 a head per meal, with the steak and seafood spots the most popular bookings. An Unlimited Dining Package has typically cost around $43 a night, or roughly $301 for the week, and it tends to pay off if you’d eat at a speciality restaurant 5 or more nights out of 7.
A shorter 3-Night Dining Package has run around $148 per person if you just want a few good meals without committing every night. Our Icon of the Seas dining packages guide compares all the tiers side by side.
Paid attractions and activities unique to Icon of the Seas
Icon of the Seas has more paid extras than older Royal Caribbean ships, so a generic cruise budget will probably come up short here. The record-breaking Category 6 waterpark is included in every fare, but the other headline attractions aren’t.
Crown’s Edge, the over-water ropes course and zip line, carries its own charge, and so do the escape room and the arcade’s game cards. Speciality venues such as Izumi Hibachi and Chops carry an upcharge on top of whatever dining package you’ve booked, and shop purchases, as on any ship, are extra.
Shore excursions and Perfect Day at CocoCay costs
Shore excursions on an Icon of the Seas itinerary are booked and paid for separately from the cruise fare, whether you go through Royal Caribbean or sort something independently in port. Royal Caribbean doesn’t publish a set price range for Icon’s specific ports, but excursions across Caribbean itineraries generally run from around $50 to $200 or more per person depending on what you’re doing.
Perfect Day at CocoCay, Royal Caribbean’s private island stop, carries its own add-on costs too, for things like cabana rentals and waterpark day passes. There’s no fixed price list for these either, so budget flexibly for this port day rather than pinning a figure on it.
Realistic total budget for an Icon of the Seas cruise
A realistic Icon of the Seas budget comes down to travel style far more than the headline cabin fare, once drinks, wifi, a speciality dinner or two and excursions are factored in.
| Travel style | Typical cabin | Realistic total per person, 7 nights, everything included |
|---|---|---|
| Budget | Interior, no packages | roughly $1,500–$2,500 |
| Mid-range | Balcony or Oceanview, a drinks package, one or two speciality dinners | roughly $3,000–$4,500 |
| Luxury | Suite, Star Class, or top-tier packages | roughly $6,000–$10,000 or more |
One traveller’s full week, including cabin, drinks, dining and wifi, came to around $7,456 for two guests, or roughly $3,700 each. The balcony cabin at around $3,800 and the Deluxe Beverage Package at around $990 were the two biggest single costs.
Why Icon of the Seas costs more than Oasis-class ships, and how season cuts the price
Icon of the Seas carries a real premium over Royal Caribbean’s own Oasis-class ships, not just over other cruise lines. AllAboardDeals, drawing on over 270,000 tracked fares, found interior cabins running around 37% higher per night than the Oasis-class median, oceanview around 43% higher, balcony around 53% higher and suites around 34% higher, a gap that typically works out at $60 to $105 a night depending on cabin type.
Balcony cabins show the steepest gap, at around $98 a night more than the Oasis-class median, which adds close to $1,400 to a 7-night cruise for two people. Part of that premium comes down to scale: Icon of the Seas carries up to 5,610 guests at double occupancy and as many as 7,600 at full capacity, making it the largest cruise ship in the world.
Season is the single biggest lever you can pull without downgrading your cabin. The same AllAboardDeals data, drawn from more than 42,000 tracked fares, shows fall sailings pricing lowest across every cabin type: interior cabins averaging around $200 a night, balconies around $241, and suites around $409, against spring highs of around $249, $320 and $551.
A $79-a-night swing on a balcony cabin between fall and spring is bigger than the usual gap between an interior and an oceanview cabin.
How much did Icon of the Seas cost to build?
Icon of the Seas cost around $2 billion to build, and stretches nearly 1,200 feet from bow to stern. None of that construction cost sets your ticket price though: fares move with live demand, cabin category and sailing date on any given day, not with what the ship cost to put together.
Icon of the Seas price FAQs
How much is Icon of the Seas per person?
Icon of the Seas per person can run from around $1,450 for the cheapest interior cabin on a quiet sailing to well over $10,000 for a top suite on a peak date, and that’s before drinks, gratuities and extras.
How much is the Icon of the Seas worth?
Royal Caribbean has never published a resale or asset value for Icon of the Seas. The closest public figure is its build cost of around $2 billion, which press coverage often uses as a stand-in for “worth”.
How much is the escape room on Icon of the Seas?
Royal Caribbean doesn’t publish a set price for the escape room on Icon of the Seas. It’s a paid extra, bookable through the Cruise Planner before you sail or once you’re on board, alongside other charged activities like Crown’s Edge.
Are gratuities included in the price of an Icon of the Seas cruise?
Gratuities are not included in the Icon of the Seas fare. They’re charged automatically to your onboard account each day unless you choose to prepay before you sail.
Does a child cost the same as an adult in an Icon of the Seas cabin?
A child doesn’t always cost the same as an adult in an Icon of the Seas cabin. It depends on the cabin type: one test booking found a suite priced the same whether set up for two adults or two adults and two children, while an interior cabin on the same sailing cost around $500 per person for a family of four.
Last Updated: 25 October 2026