Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, your weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising. I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg and this is episode number 500 and 33. This week I want to talk about what you need to know about going to Europe for the first time. With it being May now, the European cruise season has begun, and a lot of people might be taking their

very first European cruise, or might be thinking about taking one in the coming years.

At any rate, we've got a cruise expert on with us to talk about the major things you need

to know, going from North America to Europe up next.

The great thing about Royal Caribbean is a cruise is to places all around the world, including

Europe.

And, of course, with the European cruise season beginning here in May, a lot of people excited

for their cruising.

And a lot of cases, maybe even their first European cruise.

When I think of European

cruises, I think of my very good friend, Emma from Emma Cruises. Emma, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you. Nice to be here. Of course. I got to tell you guys, when I went to Europe, actually,

we're recording this, believe it or not, the exact one year anniversary of my first European trip when I went to Europe for the very

first time. And when I went to Europe, the first thing I did was like, I got to learn

everything about Europe from Emma because Emma, well, besides the fact that she lives in the UK,

that's beside the fact. But, you know, Emma has a plethora of information about this.

And it's kind of interesting, Emma, that cruising is a very universal product in the sense that, you know, especially on the major lines, whether it's Carnival, Norwegian, Royal Caribbean.

But there's something about going from one region to another, especially when it's North America to Europe, that there are just so many

little nuances and jeunisequoise about the experience that just differs slightly enough

to give a lot of people, I think, a little bit of pause. Yeah, definitely. For me, it's the other way.

You know, I cruise mostly in Europe and I come over to the state sometimes. And so I feel it in reverse. So hopefully in this podcast, I'll just undo what I notice about

cruising in America, and this will make sense. But yes, I love cruising in Europe. I have done

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