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Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast

Freedom of the Seas listener cruise review

Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast

Matt Hochberg

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Royalcaribbeanblog Podcast

4.8693 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Freedom of the Seas recently repositioned to her new homeport of San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she offers 7-night cruises to the Southern Caribbean.  On this week's episode, Jose reviews his recent Freedom of the Seas sailing and shares what he thought of the ship and the islands he visited.

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0:00.0

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 266. With everything Royal Caribbean is doing these days, there's a lot of people considering trying a Royal Caribbean cruise, and this week we have a podcast listener who was so intrigued, decided to give it a try. On this week's episode, we talked with someone who just took a Royal Caribbean cruise on board Freedom of the Seas and shares what it was like cruising with Royal Caribbean on this Southern

0:42.1

Caribbean itinerary, what they did on board, and how they liked it. Here we go. Royal Caribbean's

0:52.0

Freedom of the Seas is one of my favorite ships in the entire fleet, and a lot of folks really love it, and the fact that Royal Caribbean recently moved Freedom of the Seas is one of my favorite ships in the entire fleet.

0:54.9

A lot of folks really love it.

0:56.3

And the fact that Royal Caribbean recently moved Freedom of the Seas to her new home port of San Juan, Puerto Rico, has a lot of people excited to go to the Southern Caribbean on an amazing ship.

1:06.2

And it really opens a lot of different opportunities.

1:08.9

And this week, we've actually got someone with us who just went on Freedom of the Seas

1:12.7

to the Southern Caribbean Islands, the ABC Islands, to be specific, out of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

1:18.0

We have Jose Pena from New York, sorry, the Bronx, New York in the house.

1:23.3

Welcome, Jose.

1:24.7

Thank you, Matt.

1:25.5

Thank you for having me.

1:27.3

Absolutely. Now, Jose, I know you've been looking forward to this cruise for a long time, partially because I've known Jose for a while. And I remember when his countdown was in the hundreds of days, and he was quite upset that it was far away. But finally, you got to go on that seven-night cruise, Freedom of the Seas, ABC Islands.

1:45.0

What's your, when people talk to you, Jose, you came back from and tell your old family about the experience.

1:50.5

What do you, what's your initial reaction or what's your first thing you tell people about that cruise on Freedom of the Seas?

1:56.3

I talked to them specifically about the island as the ABC Island.

1:59.9

So I talk about Aruba, how much fun we had,

2:02.9

the excursion that we did in

2:04.7

St. Thomas, the

2:06.8

beautiful Alacusur Resort

2:08.8

in Curacao and

2:10.0

Carambola Beach and St. Kitt. So I'll tell

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