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

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 280.

As Royal Caribbean fans, it doesn't take much for us to start talking about our favorite cruise line

and sharing what we love about cruising.

From time to time, the cruise industry takes notice of what makes Royal Caribbean so great as well.

This week, we're discussing Royal Caribbean's recent accolades in the Cruise Critic

Editor's Pick Awards and why Royal Caribbean stood out from the rest of the pack.

Here we go.

Every year, there's a lot of awards given out in the cruise industry.

And among the top of them have to be the Cruise Critic Editor's Pick Awards because it not only represents a major accomplice for any cruise line, but it's picked by people who cover the industry in an in-depth fashion.

And this week, we actually have joining us, somebody who is part of that team and helped really curate these awards and talk about why Royal Caribbean in particular did fairly well in this year's awards.

And joining me is a good friend of the Royal Green Blog podcast.

It's Colleen McDaniel, senior executive editor of Cruz Critic.

Welcome back to the show, Colleen.

It's great to be here, Matt.

I always enjoy chatting with you.

Absolutely.

I think at this point you've gone from like making special appearances to a recurring character.

Well, I love it.

It's great.

I always enjoy the blog.

I love your followers.

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