Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, and we can look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hanchberg and this is episode number 425.

What does it like to go on a cruise in places other than North America?

Today, I've got a look at what it's like to go on cruises in the UK up next.

Cruising has returned in many places around the world not just North America and other places

like Europe and the UK slash England and today I've got a very good friend joining us on

the podcast to talk about what it's like to go on a cruise in England and that is Emma from

Cruises which you can find on YouTube and Facebook and all over.

Emma, welcome to the Royal Community Blog podcast.

Thank you. It's nice to talk to you.

A lot has happened since we last spoke, I think.

Yes, quite a bit, actually.

And it's funny enough, I was doing a YouTube live.

And we had a couple different people who were like, you have to have Emma come on and talk about cruises. And I was like, listen, I can't bring an Emma on for just about anything. We could probably just talk about what we're having for dinner tonight. And it's always fun, such a fun person, knowledgeable. And you've got on a number of cruises, though. And I thought this might be a good opportunity because you've got on a couple different cruises out of the UK. And UK cruising is certainly different than here in North America.

You've got different rules, different protocols and whatnot.

So today I wanted to talk about this.

So let's start off with something really basic, Emma.

How many ships have you been on so far this summer?

So I've done five, I think, five this summer.

Started on the first sailing from the UK.

And I've done a couple since then.

The good thing for me is that they're mostly short cruisers, so I can do a couple of short cruises instead of doing what I would normally do maybe a week or two somewhere more exotic,

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