Welcome to 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 13.

I love to have our listeners be a part of this podcast.

So on this week's show, we're talking with one of our podcast listeners, Michael Poole from Tennessee,

who's about to go on a cruise aboard Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas. We're going to talk to Michael and look at his cruise plans, talk about what he plans on doing

on the ship, and helping him make a few decisions along the way.

Here we go.

So joining us on today's show is Michael Poole, and Michael has the great honor and lucky duckness of being able to go on a

Royal Caribbean cruise. Actually, this weekend on November 2nd, he'll be boarding Oasis of the

seas to go on an Eastern Caribbean cruise. And it's my pleasure to welcome Michael to Royal Caribbean

Blog Podcast. Welcome to the show, Michael.

Hey, thanks for having me. I'm really excited to sail this Saturday and to share it with the listeners you have.

Absolutely. I think it's, let me say on behalf of all the listeners, we're all extremely jealous in which we're going with you. So tell us about, you're not a newbie to Royal Caribbean. How many cruises with Royal Caribbean have you taken, actually? I have taken 14 cruises and this will be my 11th with Royal Caribbean.

And I am an emerald member.

So after this cruise, I'll be diamond.

Oh, nice.

You're upgrade.

You're going up on from this cruise.

Yes, yes.

I'm very excited about that.

Isn't it weird that you'll, I mean, you book this cruise for whatever reason you book

the cruise for whatever reason you book the cruise for but you know in the back of your mind like yeah because of this cruise I get to upgrade and then after this cruise immediately

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