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Five, three, two, one, four, doing, zero.

Hang on, boys.

It's all downhill from here.

Broadcasting from the EnsuremyTrip.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Happy to have you here, my friend. If this is your first time listening, well, welcome. And there are a lot of back episodes for you to catch up on. You can find it all right there at cruiseradio.net. Now, before we get to our first interview, it's our interview of Quantum of the Seas from listener Don Buchlow. I do want to tell you, I just got back from New York City where I was stranded there because of winter storm, Juneau. Thank you so much weather for that. But I want to give the folks a shout out over at Johnny Utah's in New York City right there at 51st Street between 5th and 6th because they have amazing ribs, Tex-Mex, burgers, chicken wings. If you're there in the city before you sail Quantum, go check them out. They're on 51st Street between 5th and 6th or Johnnyutas.com. I'll also link to that

in the show notes at cruiseradio.net. But first, let's listen to this week's review of Royal Caribbean's

Quantum of the Seas taped before I was stranded in New York City for Winterstorm, Juneau.

Don Bucalo is the editor-in-chief of EatsleepCruise.com. Don and his wife just returned from an eight-night

Eastern Caribbean sailing aboard the world's smartest ship. Yeah, Quantum of the Seas. And he's here to talk all about it. First off, Don, welcome to the show, my friend. Oh, thank you, Doug. Thanks for having me. Yeah, absolutely. So let's take a step back. And before we actually get on the ship itself and talk about all the features aboard.

What made you want to decide to

sail on Quantum of the Seas?

Well, I think it was all those take a step back. And before we actually get on the ship itself and talk about all the features aboard,

what made you want to decide to sail on Quantum of the Seas? Well, I think it was all those features that we're going to talk about and that being the smartest ship, as you mentioned, and a lot of the innovations, we were thinking of going on Anthem. And then when we heard Quantum was going to be moving to China, we said, well, we have to get on Quantum, considering it's the first of the class.

So we found a cruise that met our availability, and we booked it. Very nice. So you get to the cruise terminal there because a cruise ship is docked in Bayonne. So it's Bayonne, right? Yes. I get so confused because Cape Liberty Bayonne, yeah. I'm a Florida and I know nothing about up north. So let's talk about embarkation at Cape Liberty.

Sure. So we did a pre-cru stay. And from our hotel in New Jersey there, we took a taxi.

And we got there around 10.30, and it was pretty busy. So by the time we were dropped off and checked our luggage, we went into kind of the holding area where they have you go through security.

And then what's nice about the embarkation is there's a bunch of people that are checking on iPad.

So you just find someone and you give them your documentation.

And I know it's supposed to be 10 minutes from the curb to the ship, but there was some issues checking us in.

So it took a little bit longer, but we were scanned in,

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