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 seven.

I'm really excited for this week's podcast episode because at the end of this week,

I'm taking my next Royal Caribbean cruise vacation on the beautiful jewel to seas.

And I want to take you on the cruise with me, well, virtually anyway,

and preview my cruise on

Jewel the Seas and the Southern Caribbean itinerary that I'm taking.

We'll look at why I booked this cruise, take a closer look at Jewel to Seas, the islands we're

visiting, and review some of the plans I have for the trip.

Here we go.

Being just a few days away from my Jew to seas cruise i'm really excited for it obviously

that goes without saying i think anybody a couple of days from their cruise is going to be excited

but i also wanted to share kind of a preview of my cruise take you into some of the thinking

and strategies i have with this cruise why i picked it some of the ideas i have and that way when

i come back we'll do kind of a wrap-up and see kind of how things went versus, you know, what I thought they were going to be.

So, Jewel the Seas.

Why do we go on this cruise?

This is a seven-night, Jewel the Sea, Southern Caribbean cruise that sails out of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

And why we picked this cruise is kind of, I think, we wanted something different. We had done a lot of Eastern and Western Caribbean cruises, and those are great.

We've done them a lot.

We really enjoy them, in fact, but we wanted something different this time.

And the Southern Caribbean was kind of like a good blend of being close enough to home that this isn't involving, you know, a 12-hour plane ride.

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