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 96.

This week, one of our friends, Beth is back from her transatlantic European cruise on Serenade of the Seas,

and we're talking all about her experience, from the many sea days to what she did on board,

to the port she visited.

We're discussing everything about her

experience on board and what she loved about her Royal Caribbean vacation. Here we go. I'm happy to

welcome back Beth Weigant to the podcast. And of course, you may remember we had Beth back

on episode 88 talking about previewing, in fact, her transatlantic listener cruise on Serenade of the season.

This was a really interesting cruise, and I got a lot of great feedback about it. So first of all, Beth, welcome back to the podcast. Thank you, Matt. Thanks for having me back on. I'm really looking forward to talking about this cruise. Yeah, there was a lot of great feedback. We got some emails. In fact, I have, we read some in some earlier episodes, and I know you had a chance to listen to know those as well, because you're a faithful listener, Beth, and that's what we like to hear. But we have actually, this is probably this email sums up perfectly to lead us into our discussion. It's actually from Carl from Carl, Ratz, I hope you invite Beth back to the podcast after she comes back from her transatlantic

northern European cruise. I'll be selling on Serenade of the Seas on a Norwegian Fjord cruise this

summer, and I'd love to hear more about what she thought of the ship and any information she can

share about her experiences in Copenhagen. So let's start there, Beth. How about that? Let's help

Carl out and tell us about what you thought about the ship, Serenade of the Seas.

Well, she's looking beautiful.

She really is, she's lovely for her age.

And they've done some refurbishments on it.

And she just, very pretty ship.

We had to spend a lot of time indoors because the weather going across

the Northern Atlantic is pretty rough and it was cold and rainy most of the time. And the ship

was just wonderful for spending indoor time, especially since there was so many people. I mean,

everybody was indoors, but it didn't feel like it. So there was lots of private spaces. There were things to do. There was always

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