Welcome to the Real Crimean blog podcast through weekly look into the world of rural

accruising.

I'm your host Matt Hotschberg and this is episode number 519.

I just went on a two-night media preview cruise of Celebrity Ascent and it was surprisingly

different in some respects to my first celebrity cruise on Celebrity Apex and this week

I've got a look

about what makes Celebrity Ascent different.

Here we go.

Celebrity Cruises launched a brand new ship Celebrity Ascent.

It is the fourth in the edge class of Celebrity Cruise ships, but still has some little

things that are different and

unique about this ship. And I had the chance to sail on a celebrity ascent for a two-night

media cruise. Celebrity invited us to check it on out. And also on board the cruise with me was

Don from eat sleepcruise.com. Don, welcome back to the podcast. Oh, thanks, Matt. It's been a long time.

It has been a long time. And you have a, you're, you, you're very knowledgeable in celebrity

cruises in general, one of my first celebrity cruise on Celebrity Apex. I was definitely

Googling around Eat Sleep Cruise, trying to learn all the stuff that you had in there. So I found

it very helpful. And I thought,

what better excuse to bring you back on than to talk about the new celebrity ship?

Well, I appreciate that. That means a lot to us. And yes, we've actually sailed, as you mentioned,

it's the fourth edge class ship. So we've sailed on all of them now. So love this class of ship

and love to talk to you about it. Yeah, let's talk about the edge class in general first because maybe some of our audience unfamiliar with it.

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