Icon of the Seas skips Costa Maya after Miami maintenance delay — passengers split on the trade-off
If you're sailing on Icon of the Seas around Sept. 26-27, check whether your Costa Maya stop and any booked excursions, like the Chacchoben ruins tour, were affected by this schedule change. Royal Caribbean reportedly offered at least $300 in onboard credit, varying by cabin type — confirm the amount and how it posts to your account. Watch for updated departure and itinerary notices from Royal Caribbean directly.
A maintenance delay in Miami turned into a wash for a lot of passengers, and that's the part worth noting. Royal Caribbean swapped a Costa Maya call for a sea day and backstopped it with at least $300 in onboard credit, and judging by the Reddit reaction, plenty of cruisers came out ahead — Costa Maya gets repeatedly described as run-down and underdeveloped. The losers here are the families who'd booked the Chacchoben ruins excursion, a booking you can't easily replace with a credit. My read is the $300 figure tells you Royal Caribbean priced this as a minor inconvenience, not a crisis, which tracks with how casually some passengers treated it. If I were on that sailing, I'd take the credit, book something onboard fast, and skip the temptation to be upset about a port that half the ship seems glad to avoid.