Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, where we can look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 496.

I'm recording this week's episode while on board Mariner of the Seas.

It's actually the last night on my cruise, but I wanted to reflect on some of the things that

at least stood out about this sailing.

Here we go.

So we're on Mariner in the Seas. It is the last evening of my cruise.

And yes, I'm a little depressed that it's coming to an end and I have to go home tomorrow and I have to wake up early to go home tomorrow.

But I had a great cruise and I wanted to talk about some of the things that really stood out about this sailing.

We often like to do these post-cruise reviews. But I picked out about a half a dozen, one, two, three, six things that really, I think are

important because they're kind of new changes or they're just simply new to me.

And in a lot of cases, when you go on a cruise, what may be new to you is equally important

as something that's actually new to the fleet, right?

It doesn't matter that if it's, you know, something you haven't experienced before that has, you know, been there, done that for a while.

If it's new to you, it's just a new experience.

And I've got a mix of things here that really stand out to me with my cruise.

We're on a five-night Western Caribbean cruise on Mariner of the Seas. I went solo on this cruise, and we went to Cosamel and Coast of Miami, Mexico out of Port Canaveral,

and this is my 12th time on Mariner.

I really couldn't believe that I've been on Mariner quite this many times.

I was talking to my YouTube editor about it, and she was like, you should write an article about it, which I did, about how it has been on Mariner, and why I like it so much. I was like, I've really been

on this ship that many times, and then I looked it up, and this will be number 12. So, yeah, I guess

I have been on her, and I do love this ship on this cruise. Number one, post-dry dock.

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