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

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 430.

Royal Caribbean has finally restarted cruises from Tampa, and we've got a review from Serenade of the seas on one of the very first sailings.

Here we go.

Good news, there are more Royal Caribbean cruises starting up in more ports including

Tampa and this week we're talking with Jeff and Megan Mappson who had got a chance to

check out one of those sailing, actually the first sailing on board serenated the seas out of

Tampa Jeff and Megan welcome to the Royal Green Blog podcast. Thanks, Matt.

And actually, we were on the second and third sailing out of Tampa.

Okay, well, I'm going to make a note there.

There we go.

For everybody giving score at home, the second and third sailing out of Tampa on Serenade of the Seas.

And I love cruising out of Tampa, I've loved cruising on her sister ship

brilliance of the seas but going out of Tampa here what was your experience why did you

pick this particular scene we'll start there was actually interesting that you

say brilliance because this was originally supposed to be brilliance of the seas it got

changed to serenade that's right yeah they changed those settings when they, uh,

um, originally Brulings was deployed there, but then for whatever reason,

they decided to change some of those, uh, some of those options there. So that makes

sense. And we were, we were also supposed to do a Western Caribbean sailing to

Cosemale and Costa Maya, but that also got changed

to the Bahamas to Nassau and Perfect Day at Cocoa K twice.

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