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 20.

This week, I've invited podcast listener Ron to join us to discuss his recent transatlantic cruise on Independence of the Seas.

Transatlantic cruises are really unique and very different than other types of cruises that Royal Caribbean offers.

Ron helped us understand what you do for 13 days, most of which are at sea, and how he enjoyed

his time on board.

Here we go.

Once again, we are joined by one of our podcast listeners, and this time it's Ron from

Albuquerque, New Mexico, who recently took a 13-night

transatlantic cruise with his wife, Pam, on Royal Caribbean's Independence of the Seas.

Welcome to the podcast, Ron.

Hi, how are you?

Outstanding.

Glad to have you on this podcast to talk about something that's really interesting, which is transatlantic cruises, because honestly, I feel like transatlantic cruises seem to be very

polarizing cruises. And what I mean by that is that when you tell someone about a transatlantic

cruise, people either think it's a great idea or a terrible idea. So what I want to know is what

drew you to going on a transatlantic cruise in the first place. I think one of the primary

things that we've chosen to do transatlantics, this is our third one,

is that we can almost cruise back for about the same price as a flight back,

and it's much more relaxing and much more pleasant experience than flying back,

and we get a, you know, 13 to 16 night vacation for maybe only a couple of hundred dollars more than the one-way trip back

from Europe.

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