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

I'm your host Matt Hachberg, and this is episode number 5601.

There's a new player in the big ship, can't believe it's that big game.

That is MSC World America.

And as Royal Caribbean fans, it's hard not to look over the fence to see what is that really all about.

And is MSC good or is it bad or is it you get what you pay for?

Today we're going to be talking about that ship and really what it's like to go from Royal to MSC.

Here we go.

New cruise ships launch every year, not just Royal Caribbean, but like lots of cruise lines out there.

And this year, in fact, we've already had a big one launch, which is MSC's World America.

I'm wondering, why are we talking about MSC on our Royal Cream blog podcast?

Well, I think it's appropriate because a lot of people are taking note of it.

And when you talk about a big ship that, quite frankly, I think we'll talk more about this, not only copies Royal Caribbean, but it's clearly going after Royal Caribbean's market. I think it's kind of interesting to talk about. And since I did not sail on MSC World America, fear not friends, I wanted to bring on a friend who recently went on MSC, World America, and someone who I really respect a lot because he cruises a lot on a lot of different lines.

I've known this gentleman for many years now.

I'll introduce him.

We'll talk a little more, but Don from eat, sleepcruise.com.

Don, welcome to the podcast. Oh, thanks, Matt. Two compliments in an introduction from you says a lot.

I'm glad to be here and talk about this. How long have we known each other now? I was just thinking

about that before the broadcast began. Oh, God. That's a great question. I mean, probably we've been, Heidi and I have had our blog about 10 years.

And I think you were in the first people to reach out to because we respect you so much in the content.

So it's got to be close to 10 years now.

Yeah, Don and I were like, if, if blogging were two blind men, trying to walk down a hallway with their hands out in the air, trying to feel their way for where the brick wall is, that was us.

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