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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

Very happy to have you here, my friend. We always like to get your cruise reviews here on the show. If you have one, you'd like to share, shoot me an email, Doug at cruiser.com. Ben Sousa from Cruisefever. Net just returned back from a two-night sailing aboard Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas. The ship just made

its way back from Europe and is now back in Port Everglades year-round. So Ben's on the line right now. What's up, Ben? Hey, Doug. How are you doing? Good, man. So we're going to talk all about allure of the Seas and everything you did on your two-night cruise. But before we get to the ship itself, Let's take a step back and what made you want to sail a lure of the seas?

Well, if you've ever seen an oasis the ship itself, let's take a step back. And what made you want to sail a lore of the seas?

Well, if you've ever seen an oasis class ship, as soon as you see it, you just want to cruise on it. If you're a cruiser, I mean, it's the world's largest ship. It's got so much to offer. I've always wanted to go on it. And then I finally found this little two-night sailing over the weekend. it worked into my schedule, so I jumped on it.

I'm just curious because I know these cruises are at a premium if you're doing a seven-night. Was it a good deal for your two-night, or was it kind of pricey still? Actually, it wasn't too bad for a two-nighter compared to other two-nighters, so I can't complain. Yeah, very nice. So you're up there in what Ohio is it, right? Yeah, Cincinnati. Yeah, you had to get down to Fort Lauderdale for the cruise. So any pre-crues nights or anything like that you do? No, I actually flew in Morning of. Okay. Just because my schedule, I always liked to fly in a day before, kick back, you know, at a hotel and relax, but my schedule didn't allow it this time. So I flew in the morning of, landed in Fort LaGuardia Airport around 1030 in the morning, so it worked out well. Nice. So you get to Port Everglades, Cruz Terminal, Royal Caribbean uses Terminal 18 there for Oasis in Allure, which is supposed to be one of the fastest embarkation terminals in the world. So how was embarkation for you at Terminal 18? It was an absolute breeze. And because the ship just came back over from the Transatlantic, embarkation wasn't even supposed to start until 3 o'clock. Oh, wow. But we got to the airport. I met my brother, and I said, what do you want to do?

He said, let's go to the port and see what's going on. I said, okay, so we headed over about 11, 1130, and walked right in. I mean, waged in line, maybe three or four minutes, checked in, sat down, was on the ship by 12 o'clock. Wow. And so from curb to ship, how long was it total, you think? Probably about 45 minutes, but only because we had to wait for the ship to get to zero count

and for them to start boarding.

If you sail out of Bayonne on Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas, you can do a lot of stuff

before you sail, like upload your picture and all that.

Can you do that

there as well? I didn't see anything for that, though they might have had it, but I didn't

see anything there. Okay, very nice. So you mentioned you've never been on this cruise before,

but you always wanted to sail on it. So what were your first impressions once you boarded

a lore of the seas? Oh oh it's absolute wow you know royal

Caribbean they pride themselves on the wow factor and until you actually step foot on an oasis

class ship you really don't understand what it's all about yeah and we were just absolutely

blown away i mean the ships it's awesome it really is what was the first thing that stuck out to you

how large the royal Promenade was.

I mean, on quantum, it's large. But then all of a sudden you walk around Allure and it's just huge.

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