Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast through a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean Cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hoshberg, and this is episode number 500.

This week, I'm dedicating it to you after 500 episodes.

We're answering questions you have sent in.

Here we go.

So it is episode 500, and to be perfectly honest with you, I had no idea what would

be appropriate to celebrate.

Some people have been asking me, you know, are you going to do something special or significant

to celebrate 500 episodes of the Royal Cream Blog Podcast?

And to be fair, between episodes I've skipped because

of being busy on cruise ships over the years, this is probably really episode 530, but I digress

from there. I think it's still important. And it is a cool thing because obviously 500

episodes of anything is a fair commitment on my, not to make myself sound like a big and not I mean, but you know what I mean? It's an achievement, certainly. And I wanted to take a moment. I should say thank you to everybody who listens to this podcast. You know, there are many times in which I thought, well, shoot, does anybody actually listen to this podcast? It's really worth doing, right? But based on the amount of emails I get and the amount

of comments I get from people on cruise ships in which they enjoy the podcast, and obviously

questions related to the podcast, it's clear to me that somebody's listening to these episodes,

and it's incredible that it's gone on quite this long. And I love that.

It's fantastic.

I'm so excited.

I'm actually trying to figure out the first episode of the Realcombe blog podcast came out

back in 2013.

And I'm pretty sure that was like right after one of my cruises on like jewel. yeah jewel of the sea's cruise preview which i remember

i went to out of sand one that was my first cruise out of san juan and boy things changed since

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