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 331.

I'm back from over a week on board Oasis of the Seas, where I got to experience so many of the new changes and enhancements that Royal Caribbean just made to the ship.

This week, I'm sharing my full review of the upgraded Oasis of the Seas.

Here we go.

This week, we're looking at Oasis of the Seas, having completed two different sailings that

were right, almost back to back, I'd say almost because it was a day in between. I did a two-night

employee shakedown cruise in which Royal Commission inviting me to come on board to see what was new and different before the general public.

Shakedown Cruise, by the way, is a cruise in which there are guests on board, but they're all Royal Crimean employees.

So it's kind of a test cruise where the ship itself gets to be run through the paces and,

you know, essentially as close to the real thing as possible, but without any issues affecting,

you know, paying guests as it were. And then we skipped a day and then got on board for a

seven-night Eastern Caribbean sailing with my family. So essentially nine nights on board, Oasis of the

seas. And Oasis is not the first ship to be amplified, although it is the first Oasis

class ship to be amplified, following in the footsteps of Independence, Mariner, and Navigator

of the Seas, you know, we've come to expect a lot of changes to the Royal Amplified program.

And by the way, before anyone says it, yes, Voyager, the seas also got amplified.

That's on Australia and obviously not on my radar necessarily.

But absolutely true.

That was part of it.

But with each amplification, there's always a little different to it, right?

There's not one amplification has been a carbon copy for another.

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