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

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 270.

Some of my favorite types of cruises are the long weekend getaway sailings because it's an inexpensive

way to work in a quick cruise fix.

This week, I had the pleasure of going on a four-night cruise on brilliance of the seas, and I've got a full review of the cruise, as well as insight into

my 4A with the ultimate dining package and unlimited drink package. Here we go.

Last week, we went on a quick weekend getaway on Real Caribbean's Brilliance of the Seas

out of Tampa, Florida.

And I got to tell you, it was a great cruise.

And what's interesting was this was my third time on Brilliance of the Seas.

This is actually third time on brilliance.

Third time I'm brilliance sailing a four-night, Western Caribbean sailing to Cosmell,

Mexico is the only stop. So it's Embarcation Day, C-Day, Cosmell, C-Day, and then back home.

It's great for those long weekends that I've really been doing this for a couple of years now, in fact.

I started going on this back in Thanksgiving 2015.

We did it early, this same sailing January of this year year and then got this one in here in September.

So we had an opportunity to go on Brilliant for the third time.

And I got to tell you, third time really was the charm.

Not that I had any problems on the first two salings or anything like that.

But I think pretty quickly being on brilliance again, I really felt like we fell in love the third time.

It's that, it's like that old Broadway show tune, you know, I've grown accustomed to your face.

And I kind of really felt at home on brilliance, I got to say.

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