Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hachberg, and this is episode number 449.

You know, something we haven't talked about in a long time is what to do if you're a brand new cruiser, first-time cruiser to Royal Caribbean.

And so today, I wanted to go over some core basics.

It's Cruise 101.

If you're brand new to Royal Caribbean, here we go.

Every day I check out the Royal Caribbean Blog message boards over at Rollcrimandblog.com.

And yeah, that is kind of a shameless plug to go check out the message boards.

If you haven't already, it's a really fun community we have over there.

And there was a message from somebody who was new to our message boards. If you haven't already, it's a really fun community we have over there. And there was a message from somebody who was new to our message boards. His username is Scott

Gunnerman. And Scott was asking some questions about first time cruise. It's actually first ever cruise on

Oasis of the Seas. And Scott asked me, after we're going back and forth a little bit,

and Scott said, hey, there are any podcast episodes that are really focused on first timers? And I thought of myself, well, certainly, I must have done that.

No problem at all.

I started going back through the archives, and I discovered two things.

One, I don't think I've actually done an entire episode dedicated to that.

And if I have, it was back in the old, old days of the podcast.

I mean, we started this podcast a number of years ago. And a lot of the information is still relevant.

I think even today, if you listen to some stuff from two, three, four, five years ago.

But you know what?

I feel like when we're talking about cruise 101, like someone who's brand new to real Caribbean, brand new to cruising, there's going to be some information that's going to be relevant for them.

So I wanted to focus today on things that stand out to me as the most important.

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