Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas: World's greatest cruise ship

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An early look at Royal Caribbean's second Icon-class ship, which doesn't claim, to be but likely is, the world's largest cruise ship.

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00:00Hello there, cruisers. I am Dan Klein, Editor-in-Chief of Travel Host.

00:03Next to me is Dennis Post, co-owner of Postcard Travel Planning.

00:07We are going to talk about the biggest, the greatest, not technically the largest,

00:12cruise ship in the world, Star of the Seas.

00:15Why not the largest?

00:16Because I feel like all the cruise lines have gotten together

00:19and decided they're not going to make that claim anymore.

00:21If you notice at Celebration Key, Carnival is not saying that's the largest pool.

00:26They're calling it a lagoon, so they're not stepping on Royal Caribbean's claim.

00:31So I think as an industry, there might be some agreements about kind of ending that.

00:35But Star of the Seas, and I mean this in the nicest way possible, is a copy,

00:40an exact copy of Icon.

00:41It has a little bit different art.

00:43Everything else is pretty much the same.

00:46Now that's again, that's like saying,

00:48hey, that clone of Michael Jordan's pretty good at basketball.

00:51Ooh, but he might have a gambling problem.

00:53What's the gambling problem on Star of the Seas?

00:56Because it's the same problem we had at Icon.

00:58The adult pool is a disaster.

01:00It is called Hideaway.

01:01You have to walk down a flight of stairs to get there,

01:04something Amy Post right now, I heard Nune, could not do.

01:07And when you get there, there's very few places to put your stuff.

01:11I know something I complain about all the time,

01:13but there's no cubbies, there's few chairs.

01:15A lot of the chairs are in the direct sun,

01:16so you don't want to put your phone there.

01:18And it's a beautiful infinity pool,

01:20that when I was there with six people,

01:22and there were only 500 on board, was great.

01:24I can't imagine what it's like with 6,000 people on board.

01:28A minor flaw they fixed a little bit in now that the Swim & Tonic bar,

01:33which is a swim-up bar, is now adults only,

01:35but those bars are not that close to each other.

01:38So this is a family cruise ship.

01:40Water slides.

01:42Things to do everywhere.

01:44Rooms are spectacular.

01:45There's USB ports everywhere.

01:47They have not spared a detail.

01:49And I think one of the things is when you see the top cruise ships,

01:52and we were lucky enough, we were on MSC World America,

01:55I was on Norwegian Aqua.

01:56We're on Carnival Celebration right now.

01:58We've seen some of the greatest cruise ships in the world,

02:01and I think it's fair to say that Jason Liberty, Michael Bailey,

02:05Jay Schneider, the team owner at Royal,

02:08they know how to design a cruise ship.

02:09There is flow everywhere.

02:11It really, really works.

02:13You could be on floor and end up in Central Park,

02:15and you don't feel like you've walked it.

02:17So we're going to talk more about that ship.

02:19We're going to talk more about the ship we're on,

02:21Celebration, as we sort of go through our week here.

02:24Until then, I am Dan Klein.

02:26He is Dennis Post.

02:27Come cruise with us soon.

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