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Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast

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Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast

Matt Hochberg

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Kids & Family, Royalcaribbeanblog Podcast

4.9663 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Aaron from CruiseCritic.com joins Matt to talk about what it was like sailing on the first big ship to sail to Alaska since 2019!

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0:00.0

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

0:22.1

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 416.

0:26.0

It's kind of hard to believe, but there's actually cruises going to Alaska again,

0:29.6

and Royal Caribbean serenaded the seas was the first ship to get back to Alaska this year,

0:34.8

having just completed her first sailing.

0:37.1

And I've got this week an interview with somebody who just went on that first sailing,

0:41.3

not only the first Royal Cremant ship back, but the first big ship back in Alaska.

0:45.4

And I've got to look at what it was like to go back to Alaska.

0:48.5

Here we go.

0:51.8

A few months ago, it would have been really hard to imagine that there'd be cruise ships going to Alaska this year, but it's happening.

0:58.0

And in fact, the first big ship returned to Alaska just a little while ago, and that was a Royal Caribbean serenade of the seas.

1:05.0

And someone who was on board the very first ship, actually the Royal Caribbean ship, is a good friend of mine, actually.

1:11.6

Aaron Saunders, who's the news and feature editor for CruiseCritic.com.

1:16.0

Aaron, welcome to the Royal Creming blog podcast.

1:18.3

Thank you.

1:18.9

It's a pleasure to be here, Matt.

1:20.1

This is amazing, especially after coming back from the first cruise of Serenade of the seas,

1:24.4

the first revenue cruise up to Alaska on a big ship in 21 months.

1:29.6

You know, it's just, it's been such a historic journey, I think.

1:32.9

Yeah, and I know that, Aaron, you've been, you've been following the, the plight of the cruise ship industry and trying to get to Alaska.

1:41.2

Really, ever since Canada shut down their cruise access as well as the United

1:46.1

States as well, and everything that's happened in between.

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