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

I'm your host Matt Hatchberg, and this is episode number 445.

With the arrival of Wonder of the Seas into the fleet, Royal Caribbean is ready to move into its next phase from comeback to just doing what they've done best for over 50 years, and that has delivered an amazing cruise vacation.

So with so much to look forward to, this week, I get to sit down with Royal Caribbean Senior Vice President and Chief

Product Innovation Officer Jay Schneider to talk about the big plans Royal Caribbean has coming up.

Here we go. Lots changing in the world of Royal Caribbean all the time.

And now, with cruising back and moving forward, we've now had an opportunity to see even more changes, including a brand new cruise ship.

Less than a year, we've had two new cruise ships.

And with all these changes and all that's happening and going to be happening, I wanted to bring you all an update with where things are.

And of course, we're bringing back on the episode today, one of our good friends, Jay, who's the chief product

innovation officer at Royal Caribbean Group. Jay, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks, Matt. Thanks for having

me. Absolutely. And we're sitting here on Wonder of the Seas. And, you know, it's incredible

because this ship was at one point for actually for a little while I just assumed

I'm not sure I've ever seen her spectrum of the seas I've not been on it because she went straight

to Asia. Wonder was originally supposed to do that and luckily for us we've been able to get on

her through the changes that have occurred but you know there's so much to talk about it.

I wanted to talk about something that you mentioned the other day and I think it's worth talking

about here about the fact that you know the ship day, and I think it's worth talking about here,

about the fact that, you know, the ship was designed originally for the Asian cruise market in a sense, especially the climatization, right?

Yeah, there are certain areas that are more, they're more climatized for colder weather, right?

That was something that you started out as that idea, but you kept it.

And you mentioned that it was, part of that was you thought it was actually just a good idea in general.

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