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FREEDOM IS ... VIRTUALLY CRUISING

Royal Caribbean's Updated Sitelet Provides Freedom of the Seas Virtual
Tours And a Chance to Win a Cruise Onboard New Ship

MIAMI, Jan. 30
The ever-changing FreedomoftheSeas.com sitelet is now giving guests
more reasons to embark on a virtual visit of the line's newest and
most innovative cruise ship, Freedom of the Seas. Commissioned by
Royal Caribbean, the successful sitelet, a joint effort by Arnold
Worldwide and I-Q Interactive, features full-motion video, complete
with three-dimensional renderings of the ship's features folded into
onboard scenes for a truly interactive, life-like experience. New
content showcasing the ship's innovative features has been revealed on
a rolling basis beginning in July 2005 through the launch of Freedom
of the Seas in May 2006.

Some of the newest content on the site is the interactive Art Preview.
This area showcases all art onboard Freedom of the Seas, including
information on the artists and in-progress pictures of these
customized works. Freedom's onboard art theme is "The Four Elements -
Earth, Fire, Air and Water," each of which the site will visually
explore January through April. The sitelet features the Centrum, where
the art will encompass all four elements.

Guests can also virtually tour Royal Caribbean's largest stateroom
ever, Freedom's Presidential Family Suite. Using advanced video
compositing and animation techniques, visitors are transported into a
game-like environment resembling the actual 2,000 plus square-foot
suite. Visitors can also explore each of the five rooms in the suite
and the balcony, interacting with the full-motion people they
encounter.

The new experiences are seamlessly tied to previously launched
experiences by the Guide, a live-action video composited in the scene,
which greets guests upon entering the sitelet. The Guide navigates a
personalized tour of the ship based on the user's vacation
preferences.

Guests can immerse themselves in the ship, seeing and hearing about
the onboard amenities, including the FlowRider(R) surfing simulator,
cantilevered whirlpools, and the H20 Zone water park.

If guests like what they see, they can enter to win an unforgettable
vacation onboard Freedom, home of the first-ever surf park at sea.
From now until February 15, 2006, registered entrants can play the new
online Wax & Win Surf Game, where waxing a virtual surfboard could
reveal a pair of lucky FlowRider(R) surf simulator images -- the
ticket to one of many instant prizes, including iPod nanos, beach bag
packages and Royal Caribbean surfing T-shirts.

The success to date of FreedomoftheSeas.com has been above
expectation. Since the launch of the latest updates, the average time
consumers have been spending on the high-bandwidth site is more than
eight minutes, which is well beyond industry standard. This level of
consumer engagement is a testament to the highly interactive and
engaging content of the site, not to mention its innovative use of
technology and design.

At 160,000 GRT and holding 3,634 guests double-occupancy, Freedom of
the Seas will be the largest cruise ship in the world when she debuts
in May 2006. The first in Royal Caribbean's new Freedom class, she
will be the most forward-looking and innovative ship the company has
built to date. Freedom of the Seas will sail seven-night Western
Caribbean itineraries from Miami calling in Cozumel, Mexico; George
Town, Grand Cayman; Montego Bay, Jamaica; and Royal Caribbean's
private destination, Labadee, Hispaniola. Learn more about this
incredible new ship by contacting your travel agent.

Wave Loch, Inc. manufacturers simulated surfing attractions located
around the world ( see http://www.waveloch.com ). FlowRider(R) is a
trademark of Light Wave Ltd., of Reno, Nevada.