Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, a week of look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 360.

A cruise is a great vacation, getaway, and place to propose.

This week's cruise story is all about how Ryan picked a cruise vacation as the perfect setting for proposing to his girlfriend,

as Ryan shares how he planned everything for a very memorable cruise.

Here we go.

Our cruise story, story continues this week with another great one from one of our podcast listeners.

It is Ryan Leahy from Virginia joining us on this week.

Ryan, welcome to the Roller & Blog podcast. Thank you so much, Matt, for having me. Itist of it, like just to understand that you're not, like, here to try to sell us money for a Nigerian prince.

But, um, but I think for this week's cruise story, uh, we're going to be going on Oasis of the Seas. Is that right?

That's correct. It was a seven-night Western Caribbean cruise, uh, Talabody, Thalmouth,, and Cosmel on Oasis of the Seas.

And this was back in January, late January of this year.

Okay, nice. So where does the story begin?

All right. So actually, the story begins probably about a year and a half before this.

We were originally supposed to go on a cruise in September 2019, and it was going to be out of Fort Lauderdale.

And at that time, Hurricane Dorian was coming through.

So we literally, you know, our sailing was probably about a day before Dorian was hitting.

So, you know, they were still scrambling at that point and kind of determining whether certain ships were going to go out for the full

time and whatnot and we decided to actually cancel ours um good thing though we did have a travel

agent you know you always advised to have a travel agent they did all the work for us basically

rebooked our crews when we decided when we wanted to go.

So we decided to, you know, the only thing that changed really, we had the same itinerary.

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