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

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 145.

I just wrapped up an amazing eight-night adventure on Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the States.

And this week, I'm sharing with you my thoughts and reviews from my time aboard this ship.

Well, this is everything about my cruise, from my stateroom to dining, to the ports we visited,

and a whole lot more.

It's my hope that my experiences will help you plan your cruise to live better by sharing

some insight into some of the experiences that I ran into.

Here we go.

It's never easy saying goodbye to a cruise.

It doesn't matter which ship it's on, which sailing.

It's always bittersweet to have to say goodbye because, of course, you always have such a great time on these Royal Caribbean cruises, myself included. And, you know, coming back to this, well,

coming back to real life, it's never easy. But we had a great time on Royal Caribbean's

Navigator the season. This week, I wanted to talk about my experiences on board the ship and kind of share with you what I liked, what I did.

So that way, if you're going on a Navigator of the Seas cruiser, maybe another Voyager class ship,

or I think a lot of these lessons, honestly, are going to be universal now for many different classes

of Royal Caribbean ships, and to help you, hopefully, maybe improve your next cruise experience

by taking into account some of the things I did and saw and encountered on my cruise.

Now, first and foremost, if you haven't listened already, I would probably recommend

you check out episode 143 of this podcast

where we previewed our Navigator of the Sea Cruise, but just to quickly recap, we went on

Royal Caribbean's Navigator the Seas out of Port Everglades.

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