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

I'm your house Matt Hodgeburg, and this is episode number 191.

Few things seem to go by as quickly as Royal Caribbean cruises, including my recent cruise aboard Anthem of the Seas.

We had a fantastic time on Anthem of the Seas, and this week I'll be reviewing my recent seven-night Bahamas sailing on Anthem and talk about my stateroom,

the sweet experience, the specialty dining, entertainment on board, and the places we visited.

Here we go.

What's interesting to me is I've gone on many railcoming cruises over the years, and just when I think I've really got it down, I really know everything and I've got a pattern, so to speak, I go on a cruise and I totally change everything that I do.

And when I want to roll cremous anthem of the seas, I had a lot of first. And it's kind of, it's a

pleasant surprise to me to be able to still have new experiences and really change things up.

And it has to do even from the very beginning.

I think I mentioned this on the preview episode where we talked about this back in

episode 189 where I previewed my cruise.

One of the things we did is we went to New York City before the cruise.

My wife and I spent a great day before the cruise in the city.

We saw a number of Broadway shows.

We hung out with a with World

Caribbean blog readers in New York City. We had the first ever New York City meetup, which was

super awesome. Big shout out to everybody who showed up there. That was a lot of fun. But the next

day on our cruise day, usually as many of you know, I get to the cruise port ridiculously early.

But I was forced not to do that by virtue of the fact that because my wife and I had such a great time alone without the kids, my kids were with my parents who live in Connecticut and my parents are not the kind of people that want to show up to the cruise early.

And since we could not check in without my kids, I had to wait for them.

And the long, the short story of this is that basically they did not arrive at the port until noon,

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