Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, your week to look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 498.

This week, I am previewing my upcoming cruise.

Not only is it a cruise that's coming up, and I get to sell on it next, but it'll be my first

European cruise on Anthem of the Sea, so let's preview my cruise.

Here we go.

After many, many years of cruising and primarily in North America, I'm actually going to be able to go on my first Royal Crime

cruise that is outside the United States and or North America. I've done a cruise out of the

Bahamas technically so that wasn't in the U.S. But I've begun on my first cruise out of North America,

and that'll be on Anthem of the Seas to Norway.

I'm very excited for this one, a little apprehensive,

actually very apprehensive about it.

It's a big change.

You know, it's something that it's out of my,

I don't say out of my comfort zone, it. I definitely am, but it's a new challenge. And certainly the timing of this is right. This is actually

kind of a last minute cruise. I'll have more information on that later at real criminal blog.com.

I don't know that I can talk about why, but I'll be in Europe. And so I'm boarding Anthem of the Seas for a seven night cruise to Norway and doing the Norwegian Fjords, which has been on my bucket list for a long time.

And this will be on Anthem of the Seas, a ship that I have not been on in quite a while.

I'm actually logged into my account.

I'm just curiously, has it been a long time since I have been on Anthem.

My last cruise on Anthem.

Okay, maybe it wasn't that long ago. It was on Anthem of the season in 2019, actually one of our real coming blog group cruises.

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