Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast.

We can look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your house, Matt Hotscherberg, and this is episode number 518.

I just took my first three-day cruise on an oasis-class ship,

and this is actually Royal Caribbean's new for a into short cruises with big ships.

Is it worth it what I think about it?

And what was my sweet like?

We're going to talk all about this on this week's episode. Here we go.

So it was on a three-night cruise on Allure of the season. This is the first time an Oasis-class

ship is beginning to offer short cruises. Traditionally, Oasis Clash ships offer seven night cruise,

right? That has been the norm from day one when Oasis of the Cs debuted in 2009. Now,

fast forward to today, and Royal Caribbean is trying to change that a little bit. There's a couple reasons

for it. Number one, there's a lot of Oasis Clash Ship out there. Number two, the Oasis Clashire

ship market has been well established.

And number three, Rail Crime is trying to get into a different market or rather appeal to a

different market in that they want first-time cruisers to really look towards their product

rather than maybe some other lines that are out there.

And traditionally, RealCrimand has used older, smaller ships, relatively speaking anyway,

to be those ships that offer those weekend runs over the three-night cruises,

and of course the four-night cruises on Monday to Friday.

That's been their M.O. for a while.

But now, Allure of the Seas is beginning to offer three and four night curioses. And this is just step one because of course the Utopia of the Seas is going to launch next

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