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

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 204.

The excitement in the days leading up to Royal Caribbean Cruise is one of the best feelings, next to Embarcation Day, of course.

Knowing your cruise vacation is right around the corner gives us all such a sense of euphoria and a warm feeling to know, it's finally our turn to go on a Royal Caribbean cruise. This

week, I'm one of those lucky people, and I'll

be previewing my upcoming cruise on

Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas. My next

adventure is a July 4th getaway cruise

and I'll preview our plans for the ship,

what stands out about Harmony of the Seas,

and what I'm most excited about the try

once on board.

Here we go.

This week I get to do one of my favorite kind of episodes previewing one of my upcoming Royal Caribbean cruises.

Obviously, that's very subjective because it's my upcoming cruise.

So when I'm recording this episode, that means I'm getting excited for it.

And I'm actually about to go on Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas for a seven night sailing over the July 4th holiday.

And this week I wanted to preview my upcoming cruise.

Now, this cruise is an interesting cruise in the sense of why I booked it, how I booked it, and how it came about.

Originally, we were looking at booking a cruise back in April, I believe, March or April.

I think pretty sure it was April.

And we were looking to do kind of a getaway Memorial Day cruise.

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