Ikarus made her career for Minoan Lines in 1997 and worked the Patras-Igoumenitsa-Corfu-Venice route for many years with her sister ship Pasiphae.

They worked together for many years on the same route until Pasiphae Palace was sold to SNCM and renamed Jean Nicoli.

Ikarus Palace also made worked the Piraeus-Heraklion route replacing another ship of her company.

After the arrivals of the newest ships MS Cruise Europa and MS Cruise Olympia, Ikarus Palace was laid-up in Patras and then joined the Patras-Igoumenitsa–Ancona route and subsequently replacing HSF Knossos Palace and HSF Kydon Palace on Piraeus-Heraklion route.

Cruise Smeralda was sold to Adria Ferries in 2023 and was renamed AF Mia.