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 47.

This week, we're going to take an in-depth look at Royal Caribbean's cruise compass.

What is it?

What's in it?

And how can you best take advantage of it to help plan your day or days on your cruise?

We'll also feature your emails and I have a special

announcement to share as well. Here we go. If you listen to last week's episode, you may

know what this episode is all about because last week we were answering question from Paul

Westbrook. And Paul wrote us an email and says, Matt, could you maybe do an email decoding the

cruise compass? As a relatively new rural creeping cruiser, I want to do more on the cruise.

I know it's a guide to show me what's going on, but it seems like there's so much more to digest.

Is there a way to drill through it or decode it so it is the daily newspaper, if you want to call it, newsletter, it's probably a better way to put it, of activities and things going on on your Royal Caribbean cruise.

It's delivered to your stateroom each evening.

So usually when you're out to dinner, your stroom attendant in addition to making up your room will drop off the next day's cruise compass, usually on your bed.

And basically what it lists is it lists actually a lot of things.

It's, at its core, it's about what's going on on the ship the next day.

So different events, shows, things to buy, things to see.

There's a whole slew of information.

But it's also got other things like daily specials at the spa, the drink of the day, announcements,

things about the port you're visiting if you're having a port day, and other things going on

throughout the ship.

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