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 66.

Going on Royal Caribbean cruise is always exciting, but this week I get to preview my upcoming cruise aboard Royal Caribbean's brand new Quantum of the Seas.

This pre-inaugural two-night event is a glimpse at everything this ship has to offer, and it's my opportunity to get a firsthand look at the ship and report back to all of you all of the experiences on board.

Let's preview what my plans are for this cruise and discuss the changes that Quantum of the Seas brings.

Here we go.

As many of you know, I like to preview my upcoming Royal Caribbean Cruises.

In fact, I often invite many of you, my friends here on the podcast, to discuss your upcoming plans as well.

What I like about it is be able to take what our expectations are and what our thoughts are beforehand

and then compare them afterwards to see how things went and kind of compare and contrasts expectations and how things worked out. I think it's really rewarding from a cruise planning standpoint. And this week, I'm very excited to preview my upcoming cruise on quantum of the seas. Now, this is a two-night event. I am a guest of Royal Caribbean. This is, in fact, a media cruise essentially. It's a cruise for members of the media, as well as also there's a lot of travel agents on board. So it's basically a showing off to a lot of different people about what this ship has to offer. And the great thing about this cruise is it, you know, it's only two nights. That's not great. It's very, very short. But it's an opportunity for me to be able to report firsthand as to what the ship has to offer.

Because, of course, many of you have lots of questions about Quantum of the Seas.

It's a brand new ship. It's a brand new class of ship. And there's a whole lot of changes on this ship. And I know a lot of people have lots of excitement about Quantum of the Seas and how it compares to other ships in the fleet. And for me, I'm looking at this as really a couple nights to really get in there,

see everything for myself, experience a lot of this.

I'm really excited because, you know, this is a ship that has, it's the first ship that

since the beginning of my blog, Royal Caribbean blog.com, has been encompassed throughout the

entire process from rumors to the build being announced,

to the name, to the construction, and now the launch.

This is the blockhead just opened right after Alert the Seas had launched.

So this is really cool.

This is kind of coming full circle.

But, of course, as a fan, I'm really excited to be able to go on Quantum of the Seas and

check her out for myself. So what are my plans? Well, I'm really excited to be able to go on Quantum of the Seas and check her out for myself.

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