Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, your week look into the world of Roller Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 450.

This week, I just got back from a three-night cruise on Rollo Caribbean's Oasis of the Sea,

so I wanted to share with all of you.

My thoughts on Oasis of the Seas and my cruise, here we go.

When Roller Caribbean updated Oasis of the Seas back in 2019, I remember being really, really

blown away by how impressive everything was on board the ship.

This was really at the height of the amplification program, and we had just seen amazing

changes on both Mariner and Navigator of the seas.

Of course, Indy got a great change as well. But, you know,

and then I went on a WASIS and I felt like they really hit a high note with that amplification.

Taking an OAS class ship that we all knew and loved and enhanced it with a number of different

products and it really stood out to me. So being able to go back on Oasis now a couple of years later,

and my first time on Oasis since the pandemic, I thought this would be a good opportunity. And the fact that she was doing a three-night cruise was really impressive.

I don't know why she was doing a three-night cruise. I think maybe at one point there was a charter

on the previous four nights and the three-nighter was just to get the ship back on a schedule, so to

speak. But as it turned out, the four-night cruise before us was available to everybody, so who knows, but we booked the three-night cruise.

This was a cruise out of Miami. So I drove down the night before the cruise. I actually stayed in Fort Lauderdale because the morning of the cruise, I'm just going to get there.

I'm going to want to drive anyway. I'm going to want to do something. I'll be too excited. So having an extra 30 or 50 minute drive from Fort Lauderdale would be a bad thing. For this cruise, we had a loft suite booked, which is a sky classroom. Originally

had booked a balcony room, but I forget a couple months ago, I was looking at prices and I said,

you know what, let's upgrade to a loft suite. Try out the sky class experience. It's all in the name

of research after all. And I thought to myself, let's go for it. This cruise was just me and my wife, no kids. So I kind of figured like if we're going to do

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