Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, your week of look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 508.

Today, we have a Royal Caribbean cruise review from somebody who's never cruised with the Royal Caribbean,

but has cruised with other cruise lines.

So how does Royal Caribbean stack up compared to Carnival and Norwegian?

Let's go into it up next.

Royal Caribbean attracts all sorts of people, not just people who have not cruised before, but also people that have cruised other cruise lines.

And this week, we're talking with one of our listeners that got a chance to try out Royal Caribbean for the very first time after being on a number of other cruises. Craig Storm joins us on this week's episode. Welcome to the podcast,

Craig. Hi, Matt. Thanks. Very happy to be here. Absolutely. I saw your email. Craig sent me an email

and said he was going on A Waces of the Seas. And what's interesting and what's really struck me,

Craig, was the fact that this is your first Royal Caribbean cruise.

So tell us about your cruise history

before going on Royal Caribbean.

Sure.

So we have been on Carnival a few times

and Norwegian a few times.

We sail primarily out of the Northeast, so either out of New York or

out of Baltimore, because we live in New Jersey, and I prefer not to fly. So when they brought the

Oasis class to New Jersey, that kind of planted the sea, and I said, you know, we've got to give

this a try, biggest ship in the world and all. So that's interesting, because prior to that, I'm certain, I know you, you know, we've got to give this a try. Biggest ship in the world and all. So that's interesting because prior to that, I'm certain, I know you were aware that

Royal Caribbean was a thing, obviously.

Was it just that the ships that Royal had there, like Anthemus, example, didn't really do

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