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

I'm your host Matt Hotschberg, and this is episode number 50.

Authors Line Testa and Laurel Stewart are back from their very first Royal Caribbean Cruise,

and this week, we're comparing experiences on Royal Caribbean to Disney Cruise Line in which

aspects of the cruise experience each company does better at.

I think you're going to find the results very surprising on how Royal Caribbean stacked up against the competition.

Here we go.

Joining me once again on this week's episode is Len Testa and Laurel Stewart.

And of course you may or may not know, actually.

Len and Laurel are the authors of the

unofficial guide to the Disney Cruise Line book, which is available.

Actually, if you go to the Royal Caribbean blog show notes, you'll find a link to their awesome book,

which is obviously about the Disney Cruise Line, but as I've said on the other podcast we have

Len and Laurel on, it's actually a great resource for ports and just getting information because they've gone through all the ports that Disney Cruise Line visits, which is often quite a number of a lot of ports that rural Caribbean visits and gives us some good information about that. So if nothing else, it's a good read for that. And welcome back, guys. Thanks. Thanks for having us. Absolutely. And of course, we had Len Laurel on episode 44 when we previewed their allure.

This is cruise.

And the thing about this cruise that was interesting was, of course, Len and Laurel have never been on Royal Caribbean before.

They are veterans of Disney.

And, of course, as you know, they're writing their book.

They wrote their book, actually.

And they're taking this cruise part vacation, but also part

comparison for work to see how the composition stacks up. And they just literally got back yesterday

from their cruise on Allure of the Seas. And it was an Eastern Caribbean cruise. And we're going to

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