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

I'm here I'm here I'm Matt Hodgeberg and this is episode number 319.

Maybe you've been asked this question.

What do you live about going on Royal Caribbean cruises the most?

What endears a cruisification to you?

And after going on a few cruises, what aspects of a cruise, large or small, do you relish the most? I began thinking about this after returning home from a recent cruise, and I'm going to be

sharing in this week's episode some of the things that I love and now miss the most about

being on a cruise.

Here we go.

When I got home from Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas recently, I began to think in the day that I got back, obviously filled with a lot of remorse that the cruise is over and how I wish I was still back on board.

But that feeling of wanting to be back on board kind of made me think about, well, what do I actually miss?

Like what would I love to have

right now if I could what makes a cruise so much fun and obviously there's a lot

that makes cruises fun but I try to nail it down into you know a couple of things

that really stand out things that I absolutely love and it's I'm not gonna sit

here and say oh I love the you know all the signature activities and you know

start going down like you know the flow rider and and that. It's not about specific activities or things

to do necessarily. It is about the things that I think separate a cruise vacation from a land

vacation and certainly regular life, right? And looking back on my recent cruise experience,

I started thinking about, okay, what do I love

about when I step foot on a cruise ship, what is it that really draws me to the total experience?

What aspects of it really are compelling and the kind of things that, you know, when you're on a cruise,

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