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 88.

How about a transatlantic cruise with another week touring Northern Europe?

That's exactly what a podcast listener Beth is doing very soon, and this week we're previewing her upcoming 15-night cruise aboard Royal Caribbean Serenade of the seas.

We'll discuss why she shows the sailing, as well as what her plans are and how planning

this kind of a cruise is different than what she's used to.

Here we go.

I think the only thing better than talking about Royal Caribbean Cruise is talking about

Royal Caribbean Cruise with friends.

And as many of you know, I have an open invitation to our listeners to join me to discuss your upcoming Royal Caribbean

Cruises. And this week, we have Beth Wygant from Fort Worth, Texas, who is going on a 15-night

cruise aboard Serenade of the Seas from Boston to Copenhagen. That's a nice transatlantic cruise.

Welcome aboard the podcast, Beth. Well, thank you, Matt. Thank you so much for having me on. I really am looking forward to

talking about this cruise because I am obviously very excited. Yeah, that sounds like a great one and

certainly not a typical cruise. And I know that Beth, when you had sent me the email about your

cruise, you mentioned you're venturing out of your comfort zone in not only, I guess, going to Europe, but also doing a transatlantic.

So let's talk about why did you pick this cruise?

Well, we've wanted to go to Europe.

Number one, we wanted to become world travelers.

And you can't become a world traveler if you don't leave the same thing that you always do. And we've done so many

Caribbean cruises. I mean, we love going to the Caribbean, but it's gotten to that point where

people say, oh, where are you going? We're like, I don't know. We're just getting on the ship

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