We love sharing Royal Caribbean photos that our readers took on their cruise vacations, so each week we ask everyone reading this to send us your best, favorite and fun Royal Caribbean photos to share with the world.

This is our weekly fun opporunity to show off these really well taken shots and give everyone else a "quick fix" of a Royal Caribbean vacation.

Let's take a look at this week's batch of photos!

First up this week is a photo by Sean McLellan of sunset at St. Thomas as he was getting back from a snorkeling excursion. I can't resist a good sunset photo!

Next up is this photo by Ross and Pam of Voyager of the Seas returning to Sydney after a great south Pacific cruise.  Looks beautiful!

Next is this photo of Liberty of the Seas in Villefranche, France by Maximilan Frey.  Yup, looks like another beautiful day on a beautiful Royal Caribbean ship!

This photo comes to us by Michael Poole and it's of his favorite ship, Enchantment of the Seas.   She's docked in Nassau, Bahamas and I could go for a fun Bahamas cruise right about now!

I love this photo by Matthew Hull of Quantum of the Seas in Labadee.  Great perspective!

We will round out this week's photos with a shot of the ship I'm going on next week, Quantum of the Seas! It's by Kris Jackson and as the sign indicates, it was taken while in Barbados.

Thanks to everyone who sent in their photos this week. Have a great weekend and be sure to send us your photos so we can post them next week by using this form.

Royal Caribbean announced its 2016-2017 deployment schedule for Europe and Alaska and with it, where its cruise ships will be located.

Royal Caribbean’s 2016 Europe itineraries will open for booking starting March 19, 2015, and 2016 Alaska will open on March 26.

Here's a breakdown of the deployments by ship

Harmony of the Seas

Harmony of the Seas, will homeport at Barcelona and sail a round-trip, seven-night Western Mediterranean itinerary. Harmony of the Seas will also offer cruises from Rome (Civitavecchia), but guests must sail round-trip for seven nights.

Brilliance of the Seas

Alternate 12-night Italian Mediterranean and Greek & Italian Mediterranean cruises.

Independence of the Seas

Will sail mostly 10- to 14-night Mediterranean or Canary Island cruises from Southampton.

Navigator of the Seas

From Southampton, Navigator of the Seas will offer new six- to 14-night Norwegian Fjords, Baltic, Mediterranean or Canary Island itineraries.

Serenade of the Seas

Seven-night Norwegian Fjords and seven- to 13-night Scandinavia and Russia itineraries, round-trip from Copenhagen, Denmark, in early summer and August, and from Stockholm, Sweden, in June and July.

Jewel of the Seas

Alternate brand new 10-night Greece & Adriatic and 11-night Greece, Turkey & Croatia itineraries from Venice

Vision of the Seas

Alternate seven-night Greek Isles and Greek Isles & Turkey cruises from Venice.

Rhapsody of the Seas

Will homeport at Rome (Civitavecchia) and sail nine-night Greek Isles cruises in early summer and autumn months. From late June through August, the ship will alternate seven-night Greek Isles and Greek & Turkey cruises.

Explorer of the Seas

Based in Seattle, Explorer of the Seas will offer seven-night round-trip itineraries up Tracy Arm Fjords for an incomparable view of Sawyer Glacier.

In September, the ship will sail three Pacific Coastal cruises, seven nights in duration, which feature an overnight in San Francisco, California.

Radiance of the Seas

Alternate seven-night northbound and southbound Alaska cruises between Vancouver, B.C., and Seward.

Royal Caribbean's third Oasis-class cruise ship, Harmony of the Seas, will debut in Europe and offer European cruises in summer 2016 before she makes her way to the United States.

Harmony of the Seas will begin sailings in April 2016 and will offer 7-night cruises from Barcelona and Rome to the Western Mediterranean.  Harmony of the Seas will visit ports such as Palma, Florence and Naples.

After the summer 2016 season, Harmony of the Seas will head to Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida to offer cruises to the eastern and western Caribbean.

Harmony of the Seas is under construction at STX Europe in France.

Our latest Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast has been released! Check out Episode 84 of the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast right now.

This week's topic

When Royal Caribbean announced all the innovations on Quantum of the Seas, one of the features is something that will be transforming the Royal Caribbean cruise experience in the years to come. 

In this episode, Matt discusses what WOWbands are, how they work and what the future holds for these handy innovations.

Here’s the podcast page for Episode 84. And don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast via RSS, Stitcher or on iTunes!

Take a listen and as always, let us know what you think! Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes and leave your comments below!

Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas has left Meyer Werft shipyard in Germany and is headed down the River Ems on her 26-mile conveyance to the North Seas.

Anthem of the Seas is moving down the river and is guided by tugboats at a speed of about 2-3 knots.

The conveyance will take approximately 10 hours for Anthem of the Seas to sail the 32 kilometers down the River Ems.  

Photographer Björn Haß has shared photos with us of Anthem of the Seas' trip down the river.

Royal Caribbean will kick off a new "BOGO50" offer tomorrow that gives guests who purchase a full cruise fare, 50% off the second passenger and buy one, get one premium beverage package 50% off.

Guests who book a 2016 or 2017 cruise will also receive 50% off the 3rd and 4th passengers in the stateroom on top of the original BOGO offer.

In addition, all reservations made during the promotional period will have 50% off the deposit amount.

The new BOGO50 deal starts on March 11 and runs through April 30, 2015.  It's valid on all sailings departing on or after May 15, 2015. Offer available to residents of the United States or Canada. 

BOGO50 is valid on Ocean view and higher stateroom categories.

BOGO50 offer excludes Quantum, Anthem, Ovation, and Harmony of the Seas, Transatlantic, Transpacific, and China sailings.

Offers are all combinable with Crown & Anchor discounts and NextCruise offers. BOGO and Beverage offers are not combinable with restricted rates (for example, Seniors, Residents, Military, Kids Sail Free) nor any other offer or promotion, including, but not limited to, Interline, Travel Agent, Travel Agent Friends and Family, weekly Sales Events, Net Rates, or Shareholder Benefits.

Royal Caribbean has pushed back the date for putting Harmony of the Seas sailings on sale to April 2, 2015.

Originally sailings for what will eventually be the largest cruise ship in the world were set to go on sale on March 11, 2015 but Royal Caribbean confirmed in Twitter that they will now go on sale in 3 more weeks.

@DMPicone Our apologies. Harmony will be available for booking April 2nd.

— Royal Caribbean (@RoyalCaribbean) March 10, 2015

Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas is just hours away from her conveyance down the River Ems and one step closer to launching.  We have some brand new beautiful photos of Anthem of the Seas to share.

Photographer Björn Haß has shared a batch of brand new phoros of Anthem of the Seas that were taken in what will likely be Anthem of the Seas' final night at Meyer Werft shipyard. 

Enjoy!

Royal Caribbean's newest cruise ship, Anthem of the Seas, will have her conveyance down the River Ems on one day earlier than expected on March 10, 2015.

The conveyance will begin around 9am eastern time.

Anthem of the Seas' conveyance will take the ship from Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg, Germany along the Ems River to the North Sea.

#AnthemoftheSeas' intricate conveyance down the River Ems will begin tomorrow 3/10 at 9 am ET http://t.co/YlSDY2KEIE pic.twitter.com/SDShqZ4Ezq

— Royal Caribbean PR (@RoyalCaribPR) March 9, 2015

Meyer Werft had previously scheduled Anthem of the Seas' conveyance to March 11 but that timetable has now been updated to March 10.

UPDATE: Royal Caribbean has also released new infographics all about the upcoming Anthem of the Seas conveyance to explain how it all works.