Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, your weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 446.

Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas is here, and there's a lot happening, a lot of changes

compared to other Oasis class ships.

To help me break down what's new, what's different, what stands out, I've invited some friends to have a roundtable discussion about Wonder of the Seas.

Here we go.

Royal Grimm's Wonder of the Seas has offered a lot of new changes and some familiar ones that we've seen before and

we're actually recording this episode at geogadist Italian kitchen joining me today to talk about

wonder of the seas what our thoughts were having gone on the first sailing almost

complete is two good friends that we've known for a little while now we've got both

Ashley Cushulik and Erica Silverstein from the Points Guy joining me here.

Ladies, welcome.

Thanks, Matt.

Thanks.

Now we're here on Wonder of the Season.

Erica, I wanted to talk to you because actually we got on board here, and both of you

have a collective experience of many years in the cruise industry.

You covered a lot of different lines.

But Erica, this is your first time on an oasis class ship so I got to start I mean the wonder aside for a second just

a waste class what do you think because obviously you read heard seeing a lot of

coverage over the years so you obviously had some sort of frequency notion how

what's your thoughts on the oasis class so I guess coming on board I was actually a little

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