Welcome to the Royal Crimean Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm here I'm here with Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 238.

I'm going to open up the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast Mailbag this week and answer more of your questions, comments, and reviews.

We will be talking about topics like taking a cruise to Alaska, sharing listener cruise reviews, discussing a strategy to get Universal Studios,

and which Caribbean itinerary is a better idea for kids.

Here we go.

Royal Caribbean is always changing and constantly looking for ways to expand its offerings to guests,

and that means there is so much to do and so much to experience.

That sense of there's always being something new for you to experience on every cruise you take

makes taking a cruise so exciting. With that, there comes a lot of questions and challenges

for a lot of people. I get so many of those kinds of questions all the time from readers of the

blog, listeners to this podcast, and even chatters doing our live broadcast on Facebook.

I love answering these questions when they come in, as well as sharing those questions and answers here on the podcast,

because if one person is asking it, I'm betting a lot of other people are wondering the same thing.

That means we all get to have the best possible cruise experience and maybe even introduce an experience someone never considered for their upcoming cruise. So this week, we're going to jump into the Roegramman blog podcast inbox to answer as many questions as I possibly can. I wish you're to do some calisthenics and limber up before in this show. So that way I won't cramp up during this mega episode of listener questions. Our first email this week comes to us from James.

You're writes, I've been reading your blog for four or five years now.

And when I first heard of an associated podcast, I thought it was nuts.

Fast forward today and I've caught up on the last 130-so episodes in about three weeks.

I started into new business.

My wife and I made agreement not to plan any trips until I hit certain milestones.

Listening to your podcast is like a drug addict being in prison listening to people talk about

getting high. It's terrible and amazing all at the same time. It's the best compliment I've

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