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

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 453.

Wonder of the Seas and Odyssey of the Seas are Royal Caribbean's two newest cruise ships.

Both of them came out within a year of each other, so which one should you go on?

Today, I'm going to have a look at both and what you should consider,

if you're considering the latest and greatest. Here we go. I love a new Royal Caribbean cruise ship. Anytime there's

new ships that come out for Royal Caribbean, I mean, it's hard to ever go wrong with the new ship.

I often say that in jest, but there's really truth to it. When you're talking about a new cruise ship, it's just, it's got everything there that's

brand new, so functional everything's there.

And more importantly, it has the best things rural Caribbean is known for.

What's great with Royal Caribbean's engineering is whenever they put out a new ship,

regardless if it's the first or the fifth in a class,

it's not a carbon copy of everything that we've seen before that.

Oftentimes, new ships are opportunities for Royal Caribbean to innovate.

And in the case of Odyssey and Wonder, ships that came well at the end of the life cycles of the different classes, right?

Wonder of the Seas is the second and last Oasis class ship. Odyssey of the Seas is the last quantum class ship. And with that in mind, they're not just, you know, oh, everything we've seen before that, there's a lot of

features and things that make them unique to each other, even within its own class, let alone

comparing the two. So if you're looking at a cruise and you want to choose between both

Odyssey or Wonder, you know, I thought today we could talk about why you'd want to pick one

over the other because obviously they each brings a little something different and it's more

than just do you want to go on an oasis or a quantum class ship. I think there's a lot of

considerations beyond certainly that. And I think today's

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