Now to the Ultimate World cruise.
We all watched on social media of course, as passengers
took that nine month cruise around the world.
Now they're back and speaking with us as other cruise
lines launched their own long voyages.
Take a look at this ending where it started, at
the Port of Miami.
This ultimate world cruise homecoming is a bittersweet goodbye for
passengers on Royal Caribbean's Serenade of the Seas.
We became like one big happy family.
Over nine months at sea, these passengers explored 65 countries
across ports in all 7 continents.
My favorite port was Maria's Sydney, Australia Hospital Hall in
India, Bali.
We made it around the world, the Epic Adventure 1
viral postmark through the hashtag Ultimate World Cruise, where passengers
brought land lovers along for the journey.
Good morning, happy day four.
We are in Cosmo, Mexico.
There's a light show.
We've been keeping up with Angie Linderman, who treated her
trip as a working vacation since the start of the
cruise in December.
She didn't bring back many souvenirs, just incredible memories.
There's definitely a few of them.
I would say the Great Wall of China at night.
That's not something that happens very often.
I love Portofino.
We spent the day at the beach.
We just sat there all day and then friends just
kept coming.
This as the cruise industry expects major growth, forecasting a
nearly 25% increase in passengers by 2027.
Experts say are the driving force with high speed Internet
on board, you can go to the ends of the
earth and you are still connected, you can still be
in touch, which I think for many people is a
real fear when they're traveling that far.
Other cruise lines now offering extended world voyages, all in
America offering a 28 day sailing starting around $5500 that
will take passengers under the 2026 solar eclipse path of
totality in Iceland region with a trip for 168 days
averaging as much as $111,000 with stops in Australia, Indonesia,
Thailand, Colombia and more.
And again, one of the big reasons this is happening
and it's so popular is because of that high speed
Internet we now have on cruise ships.
And there's so much remote work.
Right.
So people can literally work from the pool deck.
You were asking how is it that so many people
can do this?
Well, that's really one of the reasons.
No, I meant how can we.
Oh, oh, that's what you want to do as well?
I just don't know how I'd survive the buffet for
several months at a time.
You wouldn't.
Yeah, be float and bloat.
Next level for me, all right.