Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, your weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hachberg, and this is episode number 456.

Today, I've got a cruise preview for you because I'm going on Royal Caribbean Serenade of the Seas to Alaska, and I'll be sharing all my plans.

I've got for Alaska on this amazing cruise.

Here we go.

So it brings me great joy not only to do a cruise preview, which means I'm going on a cruise very, very soon, but also because I'm going to Alaska.

This has been a destination I've been meaning to get back to ever since my first cruise there back in 2018 on Explorer of the Seas, which was a real-combeen blog group cruise.

And I really fell in love with Alaska the last time I was there. And this time around, I'm even more excited because we're going

on Serenade of the Seas for two seven night sailings in a row. So a back-to-back on Serenade.

I'm really, I can't wait to get there. As many of you know, I really, really, really hate flying.

And so, you know, for me, it's a necessary evil.

I'm not going to let it stop me from getting over there because Alaska is absolutely worth

the trip.

But it's, you know, something, it's like I have to get past this one hurdle and then I can

really feel like I can, you know, start to relax and enjoy the cruise. But we're going to Alaska on Serenade of the Seas for two seven-night cruises.

And I've been meeting to get to Alaska now for the last couple of years.

We had a cruise book in 2020.

That didn't happen because of the pandemic, obviously.

And then last year, we had the cruise to Alaska as well booked.

And that one we could have gone on as in it didn't get canceled, but we had a family obligation

that came up at the last minute.

So there were opportunities to go the last two years.

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