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

I'm your host Matt Hatchberg, and this is episode number 133.

I first went on Real Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas a couple of years ago, and I really loved what I saw there with all the great changes that 2014 refurbishment brought her.

This week, podcast listener Ethan is joining me to talk all about his

recent cruise aboard Navigator of the Seas and what he liked about his experience. We discuss

everything about his 8-9 adventure and share his thoughts on what makes Navigator of the Seas such a

great ship. Here we go. You know, I love talking about railroad-acruiting cru Cruise, whether it's my cruise or someone else's cruise.

And I always invite all of our listeners to come and join me here on the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast

to talk about their Royal Caribbean Cruise experiences.

And this week, we're being joined by Ethan Ballam, who just got back from a Navigator of the Seas,

8-night Eastern Caribbean

cruise. Ethan, welcome to Rollcarman Blog Podcast.

Thank you so much for having me. It's always been something I've been looking forward to,

and I can't wait to talk about my awesome vacation.

Dude, I'm really excited to talk to you about this cruise for a couple of reasons. First and

foremost, I got four words for you. Navigator of the C's. Like, I've said many, many, many, many times on

this podcast. I love this ship. It's my favorite ship. Tell me why you pick this particular

cruise to start with. Well, we pick this ship because we always kind of look to kind of put some variables in our cruises

we've gone on to freedom class ships and now two voyager classes and we looked at this one

because of all the new stuff that they put on and we're like first of all I'm a huge Mexican guy

so when I heard that they had some bore I I was like, that's a huge get.

And then when we were kind of contemplating with the other people we were traveling with that we travel with all the time,

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