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 243.

Few things seem to go by as quickly as Royal Caribbean cruises, including my recent cruise

on board Rhapsody the Seas.

We had a fantastic time on Rhapsody the Seas, and this week I'll review my recent seven-night

Western Caribbean sailing on Rhapsody and talk about my stateroom,

the sweet experience, specially dining, entertainment on board, and the places we visited.

Here we go.

Having tried Rhapsody the Seas, I have a lot of takeaways from the experience because

despite the fact that this has been my umpteenth Royal Caribbean

cruise, there were a lot of first involved with this sailing, primarily going on a vision

class ship.

And I think the nature of this week's review is going to be centered around that idea of

vision class versus the rest of the fleet.

If you followed Royal Caribbean blog at length, a lot of people always wonder what my thoughts were going to be on a smaller ship. I've been on Radiance class ships,

but not a vision class ship. Rhapsody that sees as a vision class ship. So she's a little bit older,

a little bit smaller than even the Radians class. But, you know, it still offers quite a bit,

and we were still attracted to Rhapsody for a variety of reasons. A lot of them we talked

about in two weeks ago on the preview episode, and I definitely want to make sure you check

out that episode first, so you have an idea of the where's, hows, and whys as to booking the

screws. But coming off Rhapsody of the seas, first and foremost, we had a great time. We really did

have really relaxing time on board. I also feel like we had some of the C's. First and foremost, we had a great time. We really did have really relaxing time on board.

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