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 five.

On this week's show, we're going to be looking at one of Royal Caribbean's most popular ship's freedom of the seas.

Having sailed on freedom a number of times, I know firsthand just how great this ship is,

and I've invented my friend Mike Raulman to join me to talk everything, Freedom of the Seas.

We're going to be sharing lots of our favorite spots on board, the fun things to do while at sea, and discuss where freedom goes.

I also have lots more of your listener feedback to share as well, so here we go.

Join me on this week's show is Mike Raulman of Be Our Guest Podcast.com, and Mike and I

have something in common in

that we're both big Disney fans, but deep down, we love us some Royal Caribbean. And I invited Mike

to join me to talk about Freedom of the Seas, because both of us have had a chance to check

it out a couple different times. And we become real big fans of Freedom of the Seas for good

reason also. So, Mike, welcome to Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast. Hey, thanks so much, man. I really appreciate it. Anytime. Glad to have

you on here. And, you know, Mike, when I was thinking about recording a podcast about

Freedom of the Seas, because a lot of our readers and listeners were saying, you know, we'd love

to hear more about freedom. I was thinking myself, well, you know, there's definitely people I know who've been on there.

And your name came right to the top because you and I have had this like wink, wink,

wink, nudge, nudge thing about freedom for a couple of years now.

And so I wanted to bring you on here because, you know, freedom is such an amazing ship,

I really believe. quote unquote old ship now but it's it's really like brand new when you think about it right because

it was ordered in 2003 first voyage in 2006 and you actually before the show i didn't know about this

you said that you had you sailed on her in her inaugural season yes we were on her third sailing and uh

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