Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast.

We can look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 501.

This week, we're talking all about Alaska, but not just general Alaska.

I'm going to give you an insider's look at what to do when you take an Alaska cruise.

Here we go.

A Royal Caribbean cruise to Alaska has quickly become one of my favorite types of cruise

take. I try to make a point to go there now as often as I can. And when I go to Alaska now,

I always look for it, not just to do the obvious things, but also to indulge myself in Alaska

and really get a sense of what's beyond the cruise ship brochure.

And because Alaska has so many things to do, I constantly find plenty to choose from.

And helping me with that, I have a little bit of a secret genie for Alaska.

Somebody who knows it way better than I do is Molly Breeze who uh Molly traveled to Alaska as a kid and loved

it so much that she decided to move there and has been living in Codiac Island Alaska now for many

years Molly welcome to the Royal Cray blog podcast thank you Matt no pressure at all but thank you

well I got to tell you um Molly I'm I'm the audience, this is the bunch of you, Molly's written a number of articles for real Caribbean blog.com about locals guide.

I wanted to have some, you know, things to check out beyond the obvious things.

I thought, that'll be a fun blog post.

And I got to tell you, Molly, I put your advice to the test when I went to Alaska last year and it was

fantastic it was we were in Sitka and there was this you recommended this lady who had a food

cart you could only find on Instagram you had to go track her down on there and she's in this alleyway

and I'm like yeah this woman who I've never met told me to come find you over here,

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