Welcome to the Royal Crime blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 347.

Royal Caribbean recently completed a massive upgrade to freedom of the season.

The ship is now newly amplified and managed just one sailing before this whole coronavirus shutdown.

This week, Don from Eat, Sleep Cruise joins me to talk about his adventure onto freedom

and what he thought of all the upgrades and enhancements.

Here we go.

Anytime a Royal Caribbean ship gets amplified, get some new upgrades, additions, enhancements, it really gets everybody to take notice of it.

And the most recent ship to get a Royal Amplification is Royal

Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas. And while I have not had the opportunity to sail on this

brand new refurbished ship, one of my very good friends had the chance to do so. It is Don

from eat sleepcruise.com. Don, welcome back to the podcast. Oh, thanks, Matt.

I didn't know as one of your good friends.

That made my night.

I was going to say, one of my good friends, unfortunately, he couldn't make it.

So instead, we've got Don joining us here.

That sounds more like you, but no, I'm glad to be on the show.

Thanks a lot.

Oh, of course.

I love you guys. You and Heidi do such a great job. And I was insanely jealous for two reasons.

One, you were on the cruise and I wasn't. Two, because you guys were like on one of the last sailings before this whole 30-day shutdown.

I know. We got lucky on that. Well, before we left, when all the things had started, we said, what would it take for us to cancel this cruise?

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