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 371.

When it comes to mistakes first-time cruisers make, one of the most common is not knowing which ship and sailing, they should book that works for what they want in a cruise.

This week's crew story is about how Jose had an unfortunate first Royal Caribbean cruise, but made up for it with his second sailing, which ended up blossoming into a passion for cruising. Here we go.

One of my favorite kind of cruise stories is always hearing about people's first Royal Caribbean cruise. After all, at some point, everybody was a first time Royal Caribbean cruiser.

At some point, everyone said, you know what?

I'm going to give it a try.

And I love hearing about the why.

What brought people to try either cruising in general and or a Royal Caribbean cruise?

And this week, I have the pleasure of bringing on to the podcast, a very good friend of mine, actually, a man who we both share a lot of passions for eating,

cruising, and having a good time. And of course, that is Jose Pena from New York in the house.

Hello, Jose. Thanks for having me, man. Absolutely. And today we're talking about your first Royal Caribbean

cruise.

Yes, the, I don't consider, the first real cruise was Monica the Seas, which was a five-day cruise. I believe out of Fort Lauderdale was the worst darn cruise in my entire life, spent more money than I expected, hated cruising,

and never wanted to go into Roya Caribbean cruise again.

It's not how you would think a person who's a fan of where your Caribbean would start,

but started there.

Wow.

And that's the end of our show.

Thanks for listening, listening everybody have a great

what happened was though that my wife still thought cruising was a viable form of

travel and especially um just um just like going on a vacation or going to a resort but uh it took years for to convince me so we went

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