Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 124.

I love having friends on the podcast, and this week, because everything is more fun with friends, we have two for you.

First up, we have Brian White, who's going on a lure this.

He's with 14 other people, speaking of friends, and he'll be proving everything Brian has

planned, including why he's making the change from Disney cruise line to Royal Caribbean

and everything else has got a plan on board. I'll also be dipping into the Royal Caribbean

Blog podcast email inbox this week, where Michael Poole is joining me to answer your questions.

Here we go.

The big goal of Royal Caribbean Blog has always been to help you have a better Royal Caribbean cruise,

and I'm pleased this week, in fact, to be joined by one of our listeners, Brian White,

who's going on a nice group cruise on Allure of the Seas.

Brian, welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast.

Hey, man.

Thanks for having me.

Absolutely. Well, you know, I, of course, always have that open invitation for our listeners. If you're going on a Royal Caribbean cruise, would love to talk to you about it. And, Brian, you're going on Allure of the Seas, which obviously great ship. And you've got some interesting things planned. But you're also going with a large group, group of 14. So what's getting you to bring a group of 14 on board?

Well, the women in our group, this is a family group.

My brother's family, my sister's family, and my parents are all going. So we range from three years to 78 years right now.

And this will be the fourth cruise we've been on, the first on Royal Caribbean.

Back in 2009, all the girls got together and decided they wanted to go on a cruise with everybody.

So I'm the planner and the group, and I decided to take that on.

And so we've been on three Disney cruises, and like I said, this is our first Royal Caribbean cruise.

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