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

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 369.

Have you ever taken a cruise to Alaska?

This incredible destination is the focus of this week's crew story,

where Charlotte tells us about her first cruise to Alaska along with her family during a Royal Rim blog group cruise.

Here we go.

We're back this week with another cruise story and joining me on this week's podcast.

As somebody I've had the pleasure of not only cruising with in the past, but actually

have been on the same cruise that we're going to be talking today.

It is Charlotte Manglass of Georgia in the house. Welcome

Charlotte. Hello. Thank you for having me. Absolutely. And, you know, I mentioned obviously that you and I

have cruise together. We've been on, I can think of at least three cruises. Has it been more than that?

But we've been on a couple with and without kids. Yeah, I think, I think technically four

because we did that Symphony of the Seas kind of back to back almost, you know, when we did

the preview and then the group cruise after that. So I think we did that one. That totally counts.

Absolutely. Yeah. So, so obviously I know Charlotte pretty well. And today we're talking about the cruise

stories. By the way, if you're new to the podcast, these crew stories are basically

opportunities, means of which to discuss basically like look back on fonder times, simpler

times, if you will, when cruising was happening and recall some fun experiences overall.

So Charlotte, which cruise are we talking about today?

Today we're going to talk about the Alaska group cruise we did on Explorer of the Seas.

And believe it or not, it was two years ago.

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