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 197.

Have you ever dreamed of visiting Cuba?

Royal Caribbean has begun offering cruises to this once-off-limits Caribbean country,

and that raises a number of questions of what it's like to take a cruise to Havana.

This week, we'll talk to a listener who just returned from the first ever Royal Caribbean

cruise to Cuba and discuss what's the different about a sailing there, what to expect

in Cuba, and other tips for someone who's looking to visit for the first time.

Here we go.

By far, there's no destination that Royal Caribbean sails to that gets nearly as much interest or intrigue as Cuba.

Cuba has captured the imagination of so many people who are looking not only to visit the island, but be able to take a Royal Caribbean cruise to go there.

And recently, Royal Caribbean just had its first couple sailings arrive in Cuba. In fact,

one of our listeners was able to be on the very first sailing to Cuba on board, Real

Creamen's Empress of the Seas, and she's rejoining us here on the podcast. Tell us all about it.

It is Haley from Do It Withaflare.com. Haley, welcome back to the Royal Creming blog podcast.

Hey, hey, hey, Matt.

How's it going?

It is good.

A little post-cruising blues, but it's all good.

We've all been there.

It's awful.

But I'm so glad you're able to join us here because this is such a cool, interesting thing.

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