Welcome to the Royal Crime and Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 241.

On this week's episode, I am going to be previewing my upcoming Seven-night Rhapsody of the Seas Royal Caribbean Cruise to the Western Caribbean.

And we're going to be talking about what I've got planned there, what I'm planning and doing on board,

and what makes this sailing different than any other Royal Caribbean

sailing I've ever taken.

Here we go.

When it comes to taking Royal Caribbean cruise, I often joke and am still pretty serious

about it at the same time that there's very little that is as exciting as when

your Royal Caribbean Cruise is around the corner. And on this week's episode, we do have that

opportunity to get that kind of excitement, or at least I do anyway, because I've got an

upcoming Royal Caribbean cruise. Actually, I'll be sailing this week on Rhapsody of the Seas for a seven-night Western Caribbean sailing.

I can't wait.

And if you're wondering why this week's audio sounds a little bit different than usual, that is because I'm recording from my parents' house in Connecticut, doing a little bit of a work trip before the trip.

And so you have to please excuse the audio inconsistencies.

But I hope that it's going to be at least, you know, audible and enjoyable and whatnot.

Anyway, talking about this week's episode, you know, one of the things I always like to do when we get to a cruise preview is discuss why I booked the cruise.

And I think, in my personal opinion, the reason why anybody

books one cruise over another is always really intriguing to me. I find that it's something

that there's different rationales that everybody employs, and it's not like it's always

just one reason why we book a cruise. You know, oftentimes you're debating between different cruise options, maybe different vacation options.

Perhaps there's some event that occurred in your life that forced you to change.

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