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

I'm your house Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 185.

It's hard to beat that feeling when you know your cruise is just days away.

And this week, I've got that loving feeling again because my next Royal Caribbean cruise is coming up,

and I'll be proving my upcoming adventure on the fabulous Navigator of the Seas.

In this episode, I will discuss my plans for the cruise, why I picked this ship, and talk

about the many friends of mine that are joining me for it.

Here we go.

I'm just days away from my next Royal Caribbean cruise, and as always, I love to preview my

cruise experience here on the

podcast with you, talk about the things that I've got planned, and then contrast them when I

get back home in a subsequent episode, because I really feel like sharing this experience

with all of you, not only is it a lot of fun to talk about upcoming cruises, but also, I think

hopefully it provides some insight into the rationale behind some of the decisions being made.

Now, as many of you probably are aware, this is actually a Royal Caribbean Blog group cruise,

which means that not only am I going on this cruise, but I've invited every single person listening to this podcast and reading Royal CaribbeanBlog.com to join me for it.

And this is actually, I'm trying to think what number this is.

I think this is our fourth, if I'm not mistaken, the fourth group cruise that we've done.

And we've got the biggest group yet.

And I am super excited for it.

Now, we're going to Navigator of the Seas.

This is a nine-night cruise out of Miami, Florida, down to Labadee, and the ABC Islands of Ruba, Bonair, and Curis.

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