Royal Caribbean Confirms Discovery Class. Let’s Talk About What’s Missing
Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast
Matt Hochberg
4.8 • 693 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Royal Caribbean finally confirmed the Discovery Class, but it leaves more questions than answers.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, they finally did it. |
| 0:01.2 | They finally gave his information about the discovery class and confirmed it, |
| 0:04.6 | except we really don't know much more than we did before this. |
| 0:07.4 | It's really strange because we've been pleading for information, confirmation, |
| 0:12.0 | that Roller Caribbean will be building its discovery class ships. |
| 0:14.4 | They did that, but that's all they did. |
| 0:16.6 | There was little to nothing else that came out of the announcement, and yet it's still something. |
| 0:22.4 | I mean, here's the reality of what we learned about the Discovery Class. |
| 0:25.9 | It'll be at least two ships to start with, four more possibly to follow. |
| 0:29.3 | And let's face it, unless it's an absolute disaster, real estate, I mean, always, or there's a pandemic, |
| 0:34.2 | rural Caribbean always exercises their options for these cruise ships. |
| 0:37.8 | So in the meantime, anyway, we're going to get the first ship in 2029 and the second |
| 0:44.0 | ship in 2032. |
| 0:45.4 | What I really found interesting was a couple things. |
| 0:48.1 | First of all, we got nothing else about it, which is maybe I'm reading too much into it |
| 0:52.2 | because we didn't get any information about |
| 0:55.1 | the nature of the ships. From the get-go, the rumor mill has always been that the Discovery |
| 1:00.7 | class ships would be smaller. And I'm using air quotes for that, because that's a relative term, |
| 1:05.5 | I think. But they kind of like, hence the name, like this was like why they called it this. |
| 1:10.8 | It was going to go in this kind of direction. |
| 1:13.1 | And Royal didn't give us any other information about it. |
| 1:16.1 | I mean, it really was very, very quiet. |
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