Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcasts.

We can look into the world of Royal Caribbean

Cruising. I'm your host, Matt Hotschberg, and this is episode number 516. I'm about to head

off to my next cruise, which is going to be my first time going to Canada and New England

on Serenade of the Seas, and I've got a cruise preview to share with all of you. Here we go.

It's all false cruise day, and I'm got a cruise preview to share with all of you. Here we go. It's all false cruise day and I'm heading off to serenade of the seas this weekend to sail on a seven night cruise to Canada and Newland

and I've never done this itinerary before. It's actually one of the main reasons why I chose

this cruise and also one of our Royal Caribbean Blog group

cruises. If you're unaware, we do two group cruises a year. This is a regular sailing in which I

invite all of you who are listening to this podcast and read WorldgreenBlog.com. Come join us for sailing.

And by the way, we do have two more group cruises coming up for 2024. So if you want to join us for

it, you can go to

Rail Caribbean blog.com slash events. And this is actually a group cruise that we originally

have planned in 2020. That did not happen. But we're doing it here this year. And what's always

drawn me about this itinerary, number one, I haven't done this particular sailing going up to Canada, so like that's always something neat and interesting to do when I always look forward to

opportunities to try new itineries. Number two, I love cold weather cruising. And I don't know that

it'll be like, you know, cold, cold, but certainly I would much rather be cold than hot. So from a

personal perspective, too, I certainly like these kinds of sailings.

And the fact that we're going here, kind of late in the season, late October here, you know,

that kind of has a bigger appeal. When I was picking this cruise, I was leaning between this

and another sailing on, I believe it was jewel of the seas, sailing out of Quebec and going to New York.

That would have been an open jaw sailing in which that means basically the cruise begins

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