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

cruising. I'm your house Matt Hachberg, and this is episode number 3007. It's not deja vu. We're back

again with another cruise review on Mariner of the seas. This time, I took the family on a three-night

sailing to Nassau-Bahamas and Perfect Day at Cocoa, and I've got a wrap up of everything we did.

Here we go. And I've got to wrap up of everything we did. Here we go.

If you've listened to some of the older episodes of this podcast, I'm not older just recently in the last couple months, you know that I've done a couple cruises on Mariner of the Seas.

And I've also done a cruise to Perfect Day at Cocoa Key when it opened back in May.

And we are back for this particular sailing on Mariner of the Seas to talk about this sailing.

This was a three-night Mariner of the Sea sailing out of Port Canaveral, Florida.

And as I mentioned, it was really, it's all about the destination in this case.

I mean, we love Mariner of the Seas, but I wanted to bring my family back to Perfect Day at Cocoa. I had such a great time there on Navigator the Seas.

Then I had gone solo on that sailing.

So for this one, I wanted to get back as soon as possible, and I wanted my family come with me.

And so while I was still on Navigator of the Seas, I booked Mariner.

I actually wanted to book probably Navigator in a perfect world, but my wife, and to her credit, I think in retrospect, I think she was right about this,

was while we would have liked to have gone on Navigator, having Mariner and Port Canaveral

made it such an easier trip for us because we live in the Orlando area, and Port Canaveral is about

an hour away or so. So it was much easier to manage. In fact, the day of the cruise, I did something I've

never done before, which is I actually worked during the day and then drove over at lunch. So yes,

for those of you keeping score at home, I did not get to the terminal super early. I did not go

straight to the terminal early in the morning. It wasn't the first people to get on board. It was

quite a change of pace for me. I got to tell

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