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 163.

I've been lucky enough to go on many different Royal Caribbean cruises on a variety of ships,

but one ship I found myself on the most is Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas.

Maybe it's her size, dazzling array of entertainment, impressive specialty dining options, or fabulous ports of call she visits, but I really think Freedom of the Seas is without a shadow of the doubt at the top of the list when it comes to the best Royal Caribbean ships in the fleet.

And this week, I get to share my thoughts on Freedom of the Seas with my friends who join me on board for a Roller Caribbean blog group cruise on Freedom of the Seas.

We'll discuss our favorite aspects of the cruise and what we enjoy doing on board and on shore.

Here we go.

You know, from the very first group cruise that we've ever done on any real estate, I was always

excited for the idea of cruising with a lot of people who really understood how much fun it is to go on a Royal Caribbean cruise, because not only is it great to be able to experience a cruise with people who, quote unquote, get it, but also it's great because you get to see friendly faces around the ship, you get to sharing the experiences, and everybody does something a little differently, and it allows you to be like, oh, I didn't know there was that thing over there, or cool, I saw that show too. Wasn't it then amazing when that thing happened? And that's what the group cruises are all about. And on this week's episode, we're actually broadcast or recording this live in vintages on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas. and I am surrounded by friends here who are on, who were with me on the Freedom of the Seas group cruise in 2016. And very, very excited that we get to finally get a chance to talk about our cruise experience. I know it's kind of, it's, we always record these at the end of the cruise, and it's always bittersweet, but we're still on board a cruise, at least at the time of this recording.

And it's a lot of fun. I want to quickly go around the room and just say hello, and just say your name and where you're from, just so that everyone gets an idea of who's on board. Actually, there's actually more folks here, but they're not here doing other things. There's a lot of things going on on the C day, a lot of different activities.

So, Andy, you want to start things up and we'll go around the room that way?

Okay, I'm onion. here doing other things. There's a lot of things going on on the sea day, a lot of different activities. So Andy, do you want to start things up and we'll go around the room that way?

Okay, I'm Annie M. from Cromwell in England.

That's it. Good.

Well done. Rich.

Rich from England. I'm Hunt from Orlando.

Wilson from North Carolina, Texas.

Annette, but then me I travel, but from North Ritchland Hills, Texas Annette But then may I travel

But from North Carolina

I'm from Chicago

Karen from Lake Zurich, Illinois

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