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 264.

Inevitably, I get a lot of folks who are interested in taking a Royal Caribbean cruise after

trying another cruise line and want to know how it compares.

Likewise, some that have cruise on Royal Caribbean are curious how the competition

stacks up to their cruise experience. This week, I wanted to tackle the comparison of

Royal Caribbean versus Norwegian Cruise Line and share some experiences with folks who have done both.

It's an in-depth look at the cruise experience on both lines and what each does well. Here we go.

Thank you. look at the cruise experience on both lines and what each does well. Here we go. A topic I've been asked about to record podcasts for for a long time has been a

comparison between Royal Caribbean and Norwegian.

There's only one problem.

I really don't know that much about Norwegian.

I've been on one Norwegian cruise, and it wasn't one of their newer ship, so I really felt like I wasn't in the proper position to offer really a comparison.

Certainly, you can research a lot about the two cruise lines and offer comparison. We've done

comparisons here on Royal Caribbean blog podcast about Royal Caribbean to Disney Cruise Line and to

Celebrity Cruise and even to Carnival, but we haven't

really broached the topic of Norwegian cruise line. And this week I wanted to check that one off instead,

and I actually reached out to some of my friends who have cruised both cruise lines. And yes,

they are still my friends, regardless of that fact. And we're having them on this episode to

compare and contrast their experiences on Royal Caribbean to Norwegian Cruise Line.

And we'll start with no particular order.

We've got Kristen McDowell joining us here from the great state of Rhode Island where it never snows.

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