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 213.

If you've taken a few real cream cruises, you've probably found yourself in the situation of trying to convince friends and family to also take a Royal Caribbean cruise.

After all, you enjoy the experience, and it makes sense to want to get others to join in too.

This week, I brought two friends of mine on the podcast with me to talk about their very first

Royal Caribbean cruise after years of cruising with another cruise line. We share the hits and misses

of their experience on board Oasis at the Seas. Here we go. Going on at first Royal Caribbean cruise is always a great experience, and when you get friends to finally agree to try a Royal Caribbean cruise, friends that maybe you've been talking about for many, many years to give it a try, well, all the better.

And this week, we've got two of those friends of mine that I've been talking about, try Royal Caribbean, try Royal Caribbean.

And they have given it a try going on in Rail Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas.

We have Mike Scoppa and Michelle Scribner-McLean from the Mickey Miles podcast.

Welcome to the show, Michelle.

Thank you, Matthew.

Good to be here.

And I'm so glad you can say my name the correct way.

And Mike Scopa is also joining us here. Welcome, Mike.

Thank you, Matt. Thank you for having me.

Absolutely. It's funny, Mike. We had Len on last week's episodes, so there's something in the water this last couple of weeks. We're going for sweet weeks, I guess.

Yeah. So, Mike and Michelle, as I mentioned, tried Oasis of the Seas and a little bit of background.

I've known Mike and Michelle for many, many years, and they're big Disney fans.

And they have both crews on Disney Cruise Line, but they wanted to give Royal Caribbean a try.

And really quickly, Michelle talked to us about why you picked this particular

sailing and why you decided to try Royal at this particular time.

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