Welcome to the Royal Crime Blog podcast, your weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 486.

I'm just back from my first ever cruise on Liberty of the Seas.

I wanted to talk about Liberty and what it offers and what it's like to go on a ship that hasn't been amplified yet.

Here we go.

I'm often asked a couple questions

that I probably get asked all the time.

I guess we'd consider those frugly asked questions, right?

And one of them is definitely which

Royal Caribbean cruise have I not been on or have I been on all the ships.

And the answer is no, I've not been on all the ships yet.

There are still a few ships out there that I've not been on. And Liberty of the Seas was definitely one of them.

I had not been on Liberty ever.

I think it's just because Liberty had just been in different markets than I was cruising.

It was most recently in the Galveston Cruise Market.

And then before that, it was in places like New Orleans and it would do summers in New York.

And it just never worked for me

to go there. I always ended up on her sister vessels, of course, freedom and independence.

But this year, I got a chance to finally go on Liberty of the Seas. And of course, this was a three-night

cruise out of Fort Lauderdale, Port Everglades. And on this particular cruise, I wanted to go on here because, well, I wanted to

see this particular ship. Not only is it a notch on my belt, so to speak, but I also wanted to

experience Liberty because it's one of those ships that didn't get an amplification when it

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