Welcome to the Real Crime blog podcast, where we to look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 495.

On my most recent cruise, I had one goal, a stress-free cruise, and today, I'm sharing the easy ways that I went for a stress-free cruise, and how I think I got it.

Here we go.

I recently sailed on Wonder of the C's. You can hear my full review of it back in episode 492. But today I wanted to talk about the ways

that I went about it being stress-free. What do I mean by stress-free? Well, what I mean by it is try to

come into the cruise with the least amount of

friction possible so I could really enjoy it. Now, let me be very clear. You can enjoy cruise,

I think, quite frankly, doing almost anything. But what I looked at it was, what are the stumbling

blocks? What are the things that personally make my experience just a little not ideal, I guess is what

I'm trying to say. Again, this may be more

of a mat thing than everybody thing, but I think when you're planning a vacation, ideally, I think for

most people, they're looking at it for a way to kind of relax, escape and kind of take it down a notch,

right? Certainly that doesn't mean you can't do fun things. Certainly it doesn't mean that everything is going to go exactly the way you want to do it.

But I wanted to make it as easy out of myself as possible because I think not only is it just a better overall experience when things go easy, but in addition to that, it would also help, again, allow me to have a sense of, okay, this is more of a relaxing experience.

Less frantic.

Less, let's try to get everything in there.

Again, a different approach to this kind of a cruise, but I definitely went into the

sailing with this intention as opposed to other sailings where I don't really have this idea

or theme with it.

It just kind of happens or it doesn't happen.

So I wanted to share some of the

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