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Meet Ryan & Wayne
We’re two longtime friends from Philly who caught the cruise bug on our very first sailing, a 5-night trip on Vision of the Seas to Bermuda in June 2025. A year later we went big on Oasis of the Seas, and we’re sailing Odyssey of the Seas this December.
Everything here comes from our own trips: what we loved, what annoyed us, and what we’d do differently. No fluff, just the stuff we’d tell a friend.
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