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

I'm your house Matt Hachberg, and this is episode number 415.

While I've gotten in a few Royal Caribbean Cruises so far, there are a few other ships sailing as well,

and so this week I wanted to compare notes with how the restart looks and feels on other lines.

Here we go.

Having been on a cruise, a couple cruises actually so far,

obviously Royal Caribbean is not the only game in town.

And to kind of talk about what cruising is like,

because a lot of people really are still trying to wrap their minds

around what is it

like to go on a cruise.

I wanted to reach out to somebody who I think you might have actually more nights on a cruise

than I have right now since they've restarted in the U.S.

And yes, I say that with extreme jealousy.

And that is Billy Hirsch from cruisehabit.com.

Billy, welcome back to the Royalcombe blog podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

And I've just decided based on that, as we talk today, I will be booking another cruise.

I want to make sure I stay on top.

It's not a competition, Matt.

It's not a competition, but I intend to win.

It's with extreme malice, I invite Billy on to this podcast talking about what it's like to be on a cruise

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