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 70, New York.

If you make it there, you can make it anywhere, including a cruise vacation.

With quantum of the seas and soon anthem of the seas arriving in the Big Apple, there's newfound interest in cruising out of the New York area.

This week, let's discuss the many things to do in New York, where to stay, where to eat,

and a whole lot more.

Here we go.

This week's episode, topic, actually, is brought to us by one of our listeners, actually,

two of our listeners, Mark and Lindsay, and Mark and Lindsay wrote to us a couple weeks ago, actually,

asking about an episode about New York couple weeks ago, actually, asking about

an episode about New York City.

We've actually done episodes about Old San Juan and St. Martin will put a link to both those

episodes in our show notes, but of course, New York is a big animal, and as I mentioned earlier,

Quantum of the Seas coming here now, and even soon Anthem of the Seas will be coming as

well, and even Liberty the this is for a short bit.

There's going to be a lot of new people looking at New York as a cruise destination and a

place obviously they want to go to explore a little bit, maybe before or after their cruise

vacation.

So there's a lot going on here.

And Mark and Lindsay wrote and said, we've been on plenty of cruises over the years in the

Caribbean and Europe, but this is our first time we visited New York, let alone, cruised from here, and we suspect we're not alone.

The lure of quantum of the seas is sure to pull many to New York over the coming months who normally cruise elsewhere.

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