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 56.

We're discussing the big news from Royal Caribbean this week, with all the technology aboard

being announced for Quantum of the Seas.

Really, it's an impressive array of innovations, and it's a kind of thing that really could

revolutionize how we cruise going forward.

I want to talk about how each new piece of tech coming on board the ship will impact us as guests and share how amazing quantum of the seas looks to be.

Here we go.

Earlier this week, Royal Caribbean made the big announcement about the technology coming to Quantum of the season.

This is a series of announcements Royal Caribbean made.

Of course, you may remember, they made an announcement about entertainment, and they made one about dining,

and this is the one about technology, and this was a really big deal.

And Royal Caribbean has always positioned itself, in fact, as a technology leader in the cruise industry,

they've always loved the idea of bringing new, in fact. As a technology leader in the cruise industry, they've always loved

the idea of bringing new, emerging technologies onto cruise ships and making guest lives better.

And certainly we're seeing that with Quantum of the Seas. And really, Quantum of the Seas is,

Roe Caribbean calls it in their ad speak, so to speak, you know, it's a smart cruise ship.

And it's gone beyond what a cruise ship experience can be from a tech standpoint. So with know, it's a smart cruise ship. And it's gone beyond what a

cruise ship experience can be from a tech standpoint. So with this, there's a lot that's been

brought over here. And frankly, I'm pretty excited about it. So let's go through each

aspects of what's been announced and talk about each thing. And the first thing is, before you

even get to your cruise ship, they have a new thing called smart check-in. And basically, this is about making your life easier. The thing about smart check-in is you do all your stuff at home, which we kind of did

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