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 234.

Getting excited for your Royal Caribbean cruise, especially when it's right around the corner, comes naturally.

So when a friend and myself both have a cruise coming up, we had to talk about it together.

On this week's episode, we featured not one, but two cruise previews

as Michael Poole and I discuss our upcoming sailings on Navigator of the Seas and Brilliance of the Seas.

We will share why we book these sailings, what we have planned, and what will be different for us on

this cruise. Here we go. Here at Royal Caribbean Blog.com, we often bring to you cruise previews where we talk about an upcoming Royal Caribbean cruise.

Oftentimes, we focus on a particular person's cruise that happens to be coming in the future.

Sometimes it's mine.

Sometimes it's somebody else's.

But we are always looking for ways to enhance your audio listening experience.

And what's better than one cruise preview two cruise previews

at the same time yes my friends we here at real cream blog.com are always looking to push the

envelope and bring to you the latest and greatest in royal caribbean anything and so we, what better way to achieve that than to bring with you this week's

episode where we have not one but two cruise previews.

It's a dueling cruise preview.

And to join me to talk about our upcoming cruises, plural, I have the one, the only Michael Pool. Welcome, Michael.

Hey, Matt. Thanks for having me on. And I can't believe it, but it's finally our week of cruising.

I'm ready to go. Yes. Which also, by the way, incidentally, when it happens to be your week of

cruising, no matter who it is, whether it's me or Michael or yourself listening at home. The week that you go on the cruise is also the slowest week of the year because

it just crawls by as you as the day, just in anticipation. Oh my gosh. This morning I'm like,

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