Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 24, 2019, among the Company, the various financial institutions party thereto and Nordea Bank ABP, as administrative agent

This AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”), dated as of May 24, 2019, is among ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD., a Liberian corporation (the “Borrower”), the various financial institutions party hereto (collectively, the “Lender Parties”) and NORDEA BANK ABP, NEW YORK BRANCH (as successor to Nordea Bank AB (publ), New York Branch), as administrative agent (the “Administrative Agent”) for the Lender Parties.

(1)    The Borrower, the various financial institutions party thereto and the Administrative Agent are parties to a Credit Agreement, as amended and restated as of August 23, 2013, as further amended as of July 10, 2015 and as further amended and restated as of October 12, 2017 (such Credit Agreement as in effect immediately prior to giving effect to this Amendment, the “Credit Agreement”); and

(2)    The Borrower, the Lender Parties and the Administrative Agent have agreed to amend the Credit Agreement as hereinafter set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

SECTION 1. Amendments to the Credit Agreement. The Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties agree that the Credit Agreement is, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 2, hereby amended as follows.

“Applicable Margin” means as of any date, a percentage per annum determined by reference to the Senior Debt Rating in effect on such date as set forth below:

“Applicable Percentage” means, as of any date a percentage per annum determined by reference to the Senior Debt Rating in effect on such date as set forth below:

(i) the rate per annum appearing on Reuters LIBOR01 Page (or any successor page) as the London interbank offered rate for deposits in Dollars (“LIBOR”), at approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) on such date or

“LIBOR” has the meaning specified in the definition of Base Rate.

“LIBOR Screen Rate” means the LIBOR quote on the applicable screen page the Administrative Agent reasonably designates to determine LIBOR (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be reasonably designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time).

“LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.8(c).

“Scheduled Unavailability Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.8(c).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, all obligations of any person that are or would be characterized as operating lease obligations in accordance with GAAP as in effect on December 31, 2018 (whether or not such operating lease obligations were in effect on such date) shall continue to be accounted for as operating lease obligations for purposes of this Agreement regardless of any change in GAAP following December 31, 2018 that would otherwise require such obligations to be recharacterized (on a prospective or retroactive basis or otherwise) as capitalized leases; provided that, for clarification purposes, operating leases recorded as liabilities on the balance sheet due to a change in accounting treatment, or otherwise, shall for all purposes not be treated as Indebtedness, Capital Lease Obligations or Capitalized Lease Liabilities.

(c)    Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Documents, if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), or the Borrower or Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent (with, in the case of the Required Lenders, a copy to Borrower) that the Borrower or Required Lenders (as applicable) have determined, that:

(i) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining LIBOR for any requested Interest Period, including, without limitation, because the LIBOR Screen Rate is not available or published on a current basis and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary; or

(ii) the administrator of the LIBOR Screen Rate or a governmental authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which LIBOR or the LIBOR Screen Rate shall no longer be made available, or used for determining the interest rate of loans (such specific date, the “Scheduled Unavailability Date”), or

(iii) syndicated loans currently being executed, or that include language similar to that contained in this Section 2.8(c), are being executed or amended (as applicable) to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace LIBOR,

then, reasonably promptly after such determination by the Administrative Agent or receipt by the Administrative Agent of such notice, as applicable, the Administrative Agent and the Borrower may amend this Agreement to replace LIBOR with an alternate benchmark rate (including any mathematical or other adjustments to the benchmark (if any) incorporated therein), giving due consideration to any evolving or then existing convention for similar U.S. dollar denominated syndicated credit facilities for such alternative benchmarks (any such proposed rate, a “LIBOR Successor Rate”), together with any proposed LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes (as defined below) and any such amendment shall become effective at 5:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the fifth Business Day after the Administrative Agent shall have posted such proposed amendment to all Lenders and the Borrower unless, prior to such time, Lenders comprising the Required Lenders have delivered to the Administrative Agent written notice that such Required Lenders do not accept such amendment. Such LIBOR Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such LIBOR Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.

If no LIBOR Successor Rate has been determined and the circumstances under clause (i) above exist or the Scheduled Unavailability Date has occurred (as applicable), the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender.  Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain LIBO Rate Advances shall be suspended, (to the extent of the affected LIBO Rate Advances or Interest Periods), and (y) clause (c) of the definition of “Base Rate” in Section 1.1 shall no longer be utilized in determining the Base Rate.  Upon receipt of such notice,

the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of LIBO Rate Advances (to the extent of the affected LIBO Rate Advances or Interest Periods) or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Advances (subject to the foregoing clause (y)) in the amount specified therein.

Notwithstanding anything else herein, any definition of LIBOR Successor Rate shall provide that in no event shall such LIBOR Successor Rate be less than zero for purposes of this Agreement.

For purposes hereof, “LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes” means, with respect to any proposed LIBOR Successor Rate, any conforming changes to the definition of Base Rate, Interest Period, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other administrative matters as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower, to reflect the adoption of such LIBOR Successor Rate and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such LIBOR Successor Rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement).

SECTION 2. Conditions of Amendment Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective as of the date first above written (the “Amendment Effective Date”) when, and only when, the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts of this Amendment executed by the Borrower and all Lender Parties or, as to any of the Lender Parties, advice satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that such Lender Party has executed this Amendment. This Amendment is subject to the provisions of Section 11.1 of the Credit Agreement.

SECTION 3.  Representation and Warranty of the Borrower. To induce the Lender Parties to enter into this Amendment, the Borrower represents and warrants that, as of the Amendment Effective Date:

(a)    The representations and warranties contained in Article V of the Credit Agreement are true and correct in all material respects except for those representations and warranties that are qualified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect, which shall be true and correct, and

(b)    No Default and no Prepayment Event and no event which (with notice or lapse of time or both) would become a Prepayment Event has occurred and is continuing.

SECTION 4. Reference to and Effect on the Credit Agreement and the Notes. (a) On and after the effectiveness of this Amendment, each reference in the Credit Agreement to “this Agreement”, “hereunder”, “hereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, and each reference in the Notes to “the Credit Agreement”, “thereunder”, “thereof” or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall mean and be a reference to the Credit Agreement as amended hereby.

(b)The Credit Agreement, as specifically amended by this Amendment, is and shall continue to be in full force and effect and is hereby in all respects ratified and confirmed.

(c)The execution, delivery and effectiveness of this Amendment shall not, except as expressly provided herein, operate as a waiver of any right, power or remedy of any Lender Party or the Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement, nor constitute a waiver of any provision thereof.

SECTION 5. Costs and Expenses. The Borrower agrees to pay on demand all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery and administration, modification and amendment of this Amendment and the other documents to be delivered hereunder (including the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of one counsel for the Administrative Agent and the Lender Parties with respect hereto and thereto; it being understood that the foregoing shall be limited to the reasonable and documented fees and expenses of Shearman & Sterling LLP) in accordance with the terms of Section 11.3 of the Credit Agreement.

SECTION 6. Execution in Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Amendment by telecopier or other electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Amendment.

SECTION 7. Governing Law. This Amendment shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.

SECTION 8. Defined Terms. Capitalized terms not otherwise defined in the Amendment shall have the same meanings as specified in the Credit Agreement.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the date first above written.

ROYAL CARIBBEAN CRUISES LTD.

By /s/ Antje M. Gibson
Name: Antje M. Gibson
Title: Vice President, Treasurer

Accepted and Agreed as of the date first above written:

NORDEA BANK ABP, NEW YORK BRANCH
as Administrative Agent and Lender

By /s/ Martin Lunder
Name: Martin Lunder
Title: Managing Director

By /s/ Lynn Sauro
Name: Lynn Sauro
Title: Director

CITIBANK, N.A.

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Name: Alvaro De Velasco
Title: Vice President of Citibank, N.A.

BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA ARGENTARIA, S.A. NEW YORK BRANCH

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Name: Veronica Incera
Title: Head of Global Client Coverage NY - CIB

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Name: Miriam Trautmann
Title: Senior Vice President

DNB CAPITAL LLC

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Title: First Vice President

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Name: Cathleen Buckley
Title: Senior Vice President

FIFTH THIRD BANK

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Name: Richard Arendale
Title: Managing Director

HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

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Name: Brian D. Corum
Title: Managing Director

MIZUHO BANK, LTD.

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SUNTRUST BANK

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Name: Jonathan Hart
Title: Vice President

THE BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA

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Name: Michelle C. Phillips
Title: Managing Director

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Title: Managing Director

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Title: Executive Director

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Name: Peder Garmefelt
Title: Head of Shipping Finance, London

By /s/ Malcolm Stonehouse
Name: Malcolm Stonehouse
Title: Client Executive

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Name: Michael Maguire
Title: Executive Director

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Name: Brett A. Parker
Title: Vice President

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Name: Shelley Yu
Title: Director

BANCO SANTANDER, S.A.

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Name: Lucas Videla
Title: Executive Director

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Name: Pablo Tarrio
Title: Attorney

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION

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Title: Vice President

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Name: Denis Waltrich
Title: Director

GOLDMAN SACHS BANK USA

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Name: Jamie Minieri
Title: Authorized Signatory

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MORGAN STANLEY BANK, N.A.

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