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 244.

This podcast is all about taking a Royal Caribbean cruise, and sometimes people try Royal Caribbean

and they come from other cruise lines, and it's always interesting to compare and contrast

experiences, especially when people come to the different conclusion than you do.

On this week's episode, we're actually going to be talking to somebody, actually a friend of mine,

who tried to welcome me for the first time after years of taking Disney Cruise line cruises,

and we didn't exactly see eye to eye in terms of what the experience is all about.

So I wanted to take an opportunity and talk about the different experiences between Royal Caribbean and Disney.

As we look at a friend of mine's cruise on Anthem of the Seas.

And I also brought on another friend of mine, Billy from cruisehabit.com, to also kind of weigh in on kind of where it all lays out and what all the

consensus is really when it comes to comparing and contrasting these two very popular cruise

lines. Here we go. Inevitably, when you talk about cruising in general, comparisons are a natural fit.

Oftentimes, we like to compare cruise line to cruise line.

And obviously here on Royal Caribbean blog podcasts, we're often comparing Royal Caribbean to other cruise lines across the industry.

So you might imagine when I was scouring the internet in a 1995 style web surfing,

clicking link to link to link.

I came across a blog post

by a revered friend of mine,

someone who I held in such high regard,

not because he's Canadian,

but because he is a whiz with numbers,

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