Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcasts here your weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean

Cruising. I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 418.

You know, there's always things happening, and with the cruise ship's restarting now, it seems

like there's just a ton happening. So this week, I wanted to hit the update button, if you

will, and catch you all up. And I think the top three most important things that are happening right now that are

going to impact you if you've got a cruise coming up very soon.

Here we go.

As I said at the very beginning of this episode, things are changing a lot.

That is a mantra, but it's also a reality.

And I say that a lot.

And I feel like even I am just like the words just go over your head, like, okay, whatever. But the reality is

things are changing a lot. And they're, you know, it's hard to obviously keep up with everything.

Certainly, I try to do that over at royal cream blog.com. But here on the podcast, if you listen to

only the podcast episodes, you're not going

to get every single thing that's happening, especially things that happen on more of a daily

basis. And I feel like where we are right now is a good opportunity to kind of take a step back

and look at what I believe to be the three biggest changes that real agreement has announced over

the last, let's say, couple weeks slash month or so.

You know, they've been busy obviously getting their ships back into service.

It's amazing to think about where we are today here in early August compared to where we were in early June because we're basically too much back in June, Adventure of the Seas was

or was about to begin her first sailings. It was the first ship from North

America. And now we've got a number of ships sailing and the test cruises are flowing. And

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