Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg and this is episode number 354.

First cruises are always memorable, especially if you try and got a new cruise line.

Brent took his family on Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas after sailing on sister brand celebrity cruises for a while.

This week's cruise story focuses on Brent's first Royal Caribbean

Cruise. Here we go. Going on a Royal Caribbean cruise, I think, is always a really fun

experience and memorable in and of itself, but when it's your first Royal Caribbean cruise, that's

something special. And for somebody who's not only going on their first Royal Caribbean cruise, but their first Royal Caribbean cruise, that's something special. And for somebody who's

not only going on their first Royal Caribbean cruise, but their first Royal Caribbean cruise

after going on another cruise line, almost primarily or exclusively, that's a whole different

experience altogether. And our crew story this week looks at Brent and his family's first

Royal Caribbean Cruise after being a, I don't know what they call it, loyal

to celebrity, celebrity cruisers, I don't know, we'll talk about that in a minute. Welcome to

the podcast, Brent Ferguson. Thanks for having me. Good to be here. Absolutely. And Brent, I know I've

known you for a little bit now and got to know you and your family and baby Emma. And having, I know you guys were big celebrity cruisers and then you decided to try

Oasis of the Seas. So how did this all come about? Yeah, I mean, we become elite members

cruising with celebrity, which is Diamond to the Royal Caribbean. So we've done a lot of celebrity ships.

And then some friends of ours, we've been friends for over 10 years, we wanted to do a group

cruise.

And celebrity ships are nice, but they don't really, they don't fit the group cruising

dynamic.

There's not a whole lot of activities on the celebrity ships,

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