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 105.

This week, let's talk all about my just-finished cruise aboard Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas.

So much happened on my seven-night Eastern Caribbean adventure, and I want to talk about my experiences on board, exploring the new changes, what I did on the islands, two weddings, and a whole lot more. I'll also be answering your questions,

so here we go.

I'm just a couple of days removed from my Freedom of the Seas cruise, and, you know, one

of the things we love to do in this podcast is talk about our cruise experience, and if you

listen to Episode 103, you would have heard

my cruise preview about freedom of the season. Boy, we had a lot going on with us. We were

really excited for this cruise. And I got to say off of that, two things. Number one, if you're

wondering why I sound weird, it's because I'm using a different microphone. I'm actually not home

yet. We're traveling a little bit this week. so I'm using my mobile studio, which is code

for my laptop and my headset, but a little different. And the other thing is, of course,

we had a great time on board. The Freedom of Seas Cruise was just really a tremendous

experience. I think we all had a great time, and, you's you can you can do all the plenty you want in

the world but the end of the day it's about you get on board and a lot of is you know how things are

executed there's a lot of surprises that come on board and I think our family really had a fantastic time

there was just so much that we did and I'm going to talk a little bit more about that as we go forward

but I want to put it out there that we really had a great time on board the ship.

Now let's start with our embarkation process and kind of the beginning of the cruise.

Pretty simple. We were actually able to get on the ship in Terminal 1, which is the brand new terminal that's built in Port Canaveral.

It's essentially closer to the where Port Canaveral's inlet lets out to the ocean, so it's a little

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