Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, or we can look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your house Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 548.

Should you tell your waiter if you're not going to be there for dinner?

And what are some other etiquette things that you should consider when on a cruise?

I'm going to go over some of the etiquette struggles people have on a cruise.

Here we go.

Whether you're a first-time cruiser or maybe you're just new to Royal Caribbean or it's been a while, even I struggle with some

of these as well, some of the issues related to what you should or shouldn't do on a cruise, because at

the end of the day, I really don't think you want to be that guy. You don't want to be somebody who's going to be obviously doing something you're not supposed to do,

and you certainly don't want to insult anybody.

And there are some really common questions that I see pop up all the time on the

roll cream blog message boards or on social media, asking about things that are not written rules,

but certainly like, you know, should you do

these type of things? And the first question that came to my mind or the one that I saw most

recently and that kind of spawned this entire episode here is, should you tell your waiter

if you're not going to be there for dinner ahead of time anyway? Because the main dining room

is where you can go every night of your cruise and it's a very

popular choice and i enjoy going there as well but i feel like in a lot of cases there's reasons why

you might not end up in the main dining room maybe you have a late shore exertion maybe you

booked dinner at another specialty restaurant perhaps there is an activity or show that you would book

that's going to conflict and as a result,

you're going to go to the windjammer or something like that. Now, it's one thing if you have no idea,

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