Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast or we week look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 526.

This past weekend, I took a three-night weekend cruise on Allure of the Seas.

And being a weekend cruise, I wanted to share with you what it's like going on,

a lure of the seas.

I've done now two of them, and wanted to share some of the feedback and things that

stood out about my cruise. Here we go. As I mentioned, this is my second time on Allure of the Sea since

Allure began doing these three-night weekend sailings. And these weekend sailings on big ships

is going to be a big theme this year with Utopia of the Seas coming out a little bit later on.

And it was kind of interesting because I'm looking at this cruise through the lens of, of course,

Utopia coming up and what it's like to go on an oasis class ship, a ship that big versus a short amount of time,

and also comparing contrasting it to icon of the seas.

You know, having just got an icon, I couldn't help but the

entire weekend think about ways that allure was certainly different. And we talk about allure of the

seas in particular, it's hard not to overlook some of the changes or lack thereof on allure. Allure

was supposed to be amplified in 2020. That did not happen. So she did not get the upgrades that, for example,

Oasis of the Cs did back in 2019. Now, that was the plan for alert to do that. It didn't happen,

but that didn't occur because of the global industry shutdown. But since then, Royal

Corbyn announced a couple weeks ago, actually, that alert will get amplified in 2025. So

changes are coming. but that's another

story for another day. But in the meantime, it's kind of interesting because you're going from

an icon to a lure, but a lure doesn't have necessarily all the features of, you know, harmony or

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