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 81.

I'm fascinated by how a cruise ship is built, and with Royal Caribbean's next cruise ship, Anthem of the Sea, set to debut quite soon.

There's a lot of excitement surrounding her.

This week, I'm joined by one of the designers who worked on many of the venues aboard Anthem of the Seas. We'll discuss how designing a sister ship differs from the first ship

in a class, what we can expect to find on Anthem of the Seas, and a whole lot more.

I'm also going to open up the inbox this week and answer more of your listener emails. Here we go.

Royal Caribbean's cruise ships continue to thrive, change, and improve thanks to the talents and

inspiration of so many creative individuals.

I want to welcome back to the podcast, Tim McGill, a design partner from 5 Plus Design,

who has been involved in the design for the brand new Anthem of the Sea's cruise ship.

Welcome back, Tim.

Hi, thanks, Matt.

We had you back on episode 59 and talk about the design work that Tim and his team did on Quantum of the Seas. And this

week, we're talking about five-plus designs work on sister ship Anthem of the Seas. And as our

listeners know, Anthem of the Seas is the second quantum class cruise ship coming after, of course,

Quantum of the Sea. So, Tim, whenclass cruise ship coming after, of course, quantum of the sea.

So, Tim, when you're designing for a sister ship, what changes for you in terms of the approach for the design process?

Well, usually when we're designing a new series of ships for Royal Caribbean, we know that they will be building more than one, likely, several of these ships.

So we keep that in mind, you know, as we develop the initial concepts.

And while there's a lot of great ideas and lots of evolution and many, many, you know, concepts that go into

the original ship. We do often have ideas that don't make it into the original one that

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