Hello, welcome to a bonus episode of Rope Drop Radio.

Today we're recording on the Celebrity Edge on its inaugural sailing.

You may even hear the ocean going by outside as I sit on our infinite veranda.

And I'm joined with today's show with Alex Sinek from MEI Travel, Mouse Fan Travel, one of Michelle's co-workers.

Hello, Alex.

Hello, everyone.

Thanks for having me on.

Yes.

Well, you kind of had to.

I forced you into it, so you had no choice.

So we've been on the ship for, this is our third night.

And Alex, what have you thought so far?

I think this is an interesting concept that Celebrity has introduced.

It is much different from the previous celebrity ships that I've been on.

And I think it's a good concept.

I think it has some very neat features and some features that hopefully they'll improve upon yeah like any brand new ship or hoteler the staff is still trying to figure out

what to do with some of the spaces and that's been pretty obvious and where to staff more bartenders

i think has probably been the number one issue.

But it has been interesting.

So for those of you that don't know, Celebrity is kind of the premium brand for Royal Caribbean.

Would you use, is that the right word?

It is definitely a step up above the rural Caribbean brand

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