Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a week of look into the world of roller Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgepurg, and this is episode number 385.

One Royal Caribbean cruise ship has restarted cruises, and that's a really big deal.

So this week, I'm talking with Chris Greyfoust about the significance of Quantum of the Sea's restarting operations,

as well as breaking down the false positive scare from last week.

Here we go.

Perhaps the best news in just about nine months has been the news of Royal Caribbean restarting cruises with Quantum of the Seas in Singapore.

It is one small step, but a significant one.

And just the other week, Royal Caribbean was able to restart with Quantum of the Seas.

And help me talk about this big news.

And not only is the news big, but also we'll talk about some of the,

an incident that occurred on board that also caught everyone's attention.

And that is Chris Gray Faust, who's the managing editor of cruzcritic.com. Chris, welcome to the Royal Cray blog podcast.

Thanks for having me, Matt. I'm happy to be here. Absolutely. This is, it's very interesting times.

And we were talking offline before we started recording. But I had the choice of, you know,

when we could do this interview. And I had the choice was, you know, when we could do this interview.

And the choice was last week or this week.

And I said, yeah, we'll do it next, you know, we'll do it next week. It'll be fine.

You know, there's that what could possibly have changed between weeks?

And boy, I'm glad that we had the opportunity to defer an extra week.

I think so, too, because I really think that this, that the quantum of the C's restart really kind of encapsulates what the cruise industry has been facing in terms of successes and then also potential setbacks.

But then also looking, looking at what kind of has been going right and what they're learning from it.

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