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 123.

This week, I want to share with you 20, yes 20, tips for a better Royal Caribbean cruise.

These are an array of tips, tricks, overlooked experiences, and secrets to get the most out of your Royal Caribbean cruise.

It's all about enhancing your Royal Caribbean cruise with a few ways that I hope everyone can

benefit from on their very next Royal Caribbean cruise.

Here we go.

I've said for years and documented much of it on Royal CaribbeanBlog.com that one of the best ways to get the most out of your Royal Caribbean cruise is by learning from others.

That's been the power of this podcast and website where we regularly share tips and tricks we all learn from our collective experiences.

And along those lines, the mission of Royal Caribbean Blog has always been to help you have a better Royal Caribbean cruise.

So it got me thinking about some good

strategies and ideas for improving, well, everyone's cruise. Let's face it, there's a lot that

goes into a Royal Caribbean cruise. And while we all have the specific aspects of a cruise we care

about, there are a lot of common threads between us all. And by sharing ways to improve our

cruise, we get the most value out of the vacation dollar

and also maximize the amount of fun that you're going to have.

And it's no secret that, well, I'm a total geek.

And I love to share my experiences virtually with all of you.

So I've come up with this list of 20 tips for a better Royal Crimean Cruise.

My hope is that even just a few of these tips will benefit everybody

listening. Some may be strategies you already know about, but perhaps there's something new to

try on your very next cruise. And our first one that we're going to start out with is arrive

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