Welcome to the Royal Crimean Blog podcast, your week's a look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 477.

Ever since Royal Caribbean revealed icon of the season just about a month ago, there's been a lot of hype and excitement about this brand new ship.

And today, we have an exclusive interview with Royal Caribbean Senior Vice President and Chief Product Innovation Officer Jay Schneider,

who's going to walk us through the big reveal of icon of the seas, what they've got planned coming up,

and even take a look at the future of the icon class.

Here we go.

So we're sitting here with Jay Schneider, who's the chief product innovation officer for Royal Caribbean Group.

Jay, welcome back.

Thanks, Matt.

Thanks for having me.

Absolutely.

Very excited to talk to you about ICON.

There's been a lot of stuff that's been happening in the last, gosh, a couple weeks now, right?

I mean, has it even been a month since the big reveal?

It has not been a month since the big reveal.

Yeah. And the beauty of a ship that like this is we're going to keep revealing month after month

after month.

So there's exciting stuff we haven't talked about yet.

Well, let's talk about the reveal in itself because obviously you guys have been very tight-lived

about this.

Congratulations.

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