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

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 314.

Have you heard of something called ship classes?

Are you trying to figure out what the difference is between Royal Crimean chips?

I'm going to break down the differences in this week's episode as we talk all about how Royal Caribbean classifies as chips.

Here we go.

I've gotten a lot of requests for this week's episode.

In fact, I've probably gotten more requests for this particular type of topic over the last

couple of weeks and months and any other topic.

And part of the reason why I've delayed recording this episode is because the answer to

this topic is a little more difficult to answer today.

If we had recorded this episode back in 2014, 2015, it would have been far easier.

But we'll get to that in a minute.

But we're talking about Royal Caribbean ship classes on this episode. And let's talk

about what ship classes are. Because if you're new to Royal Caribbean, if you're new to cruising,

you're probably going to hear the term or read the term classes of ships or Oasis class or

Voyager class or Radians class. And to a new cruiser, this really is meaningless. It's like,

okay, what does that mean

exactly? Classes of ships are basically how Royal Caribbean categorizes its vessels. There's 20,

right now 26 ships in Royal Caribbean's fleet. Now, not all ships are the same and basically

each cruise line, including Royal Caribbean, classifies the ships, they group them based on their structure and the size of the ship and some of the amenities on board.

It's a lot like cars. Cars are a great example of this. When we talk about automobiles, there's a lot of kind of automobiles. You've got sedans, you've got compacts, you've got pickup trucks, you've got minivans, right? When you hear a minivan or you hear a pickup truck or you hear a sedan, there are certain types

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