Hope you had a great week (maybe one week closer to your next Royal Caribbean cruise?) and you had a chance to keep up with what's new with Royal Caribbean this week. But if not, here's a roundup of this week's news.
The big news this week was all about Quantum of the Seas and her float out that took place a few days ago.
After a few days delay due to poor weather, Quantum finally made her way out of the Meyer Werft shipyard dry dock and is now one step closer to launching.
With Quantum of the Seas succesully floated out, the ship will begin functionality tests. Royal Caribbean also announced a countdown of less than 100 days until her official debut.
Royal Caribbean News
- Royal Caribbean kicked off a 5-day WOW sale yesterday that offers onboard credit and reduced deposits.
- Royal Caribbean posted an updated Quantum of the Seas cutaway that reveals a lot more of the ship.
- Anthem of the Seas is now back in dry dock now that sister Quantum left.
- Royal Caribbean unveiled its $5 million art collection on Quantum of the Seas, including a giant pink polar bear.
- Royal Caribbean is investing $2 million to prevent Norovirus on its cruise ships.
- First time cruisers, don't miss our guide to disemberkation day on your Royal Caribbean cruise.
- Did you know about these lost Royal Caribbean ship names?
99 Days of Quantum
To celebrate the countdown until Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas debuts, we kicked off a brand new blog series, 99 Days of Quantum, that looks at what makes this new ship so amazing. Each day we are posting a new blog post all about Quantum of the Seas so here's what you might have missed this week.
North Star- Virtual Balconies
- Wonderland
- Beautiful float out photos of Quantum of the Seas
- Sonic Odyssey
- Royal Loft Suite
Stay tuned to Royal Caribbean Blog each day for a brand new post all about Quantum of the Seas untils he debuts (93 more days!).
Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast
The fifty-fourth episode of the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast is now available and we're previewing a podcast listener's upcoming cruise on Allure of the Seas.
In this episode, Matt invites podcast listener Danielle Perry to discuss her family's first Royal Caribbean cruise and why she chose to cruise on Royal Caribbean as well as why they picked Allure of the Seas.
Please feel free to subscribe via iTunes or RSS, and head over to rate and review the podcast on iTunes if you can! We’d appreciate it.
Royal Caribbean Around the Internet
Royal Caribbean posted an article about what happens if there is a hurricane during your cruise.
CruiseInd has started up its Quantum of the Seas live blog that will track the new ship's progress.
Royal Caribbean explores Quantum of the Seas' art theme.
Travel Weekly posted a new service for cruise visitors to Bermuda that allows easier access to Horseshoe Bay.
