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 259.

We're treading into the murky waters of cruise ship etiquette this week and talking about the

do's and don'ts of how to act on a cruise ship.

Now, we're definitely not dictating how everyone should act on a cruise ship, but this actually

is an opportunity to discuss

as a group the expected behavior and social norms you should expect when going on a Royal Caribbean

cruise. Here we go. Talking about cruise line etiquette, I got to be honest, I was a little

hesitant to take this topic, but actually one of our listeners, Sharon Wingate sent me an email and suggested

a couple different great ideas, including top cruise edict mistakes, things that as guests

we shouldn't do or should do something differently are basically ways that we can be nicer

to each other and everybody and respect everybody

and basically be a good cruiser. And, you know, I think when it comes to cruising, you definitely

don't want to do the wrong thing. I know that like when I go to the casino as an example,

I still to this day will not sit down at any blackjack table unless the blackjack table

is completely empty because I am still

paranoid that I am doing the wrong thing that I'm that player who's going to wreck it or ruin it for

other players in there and granted I'm not very experienced in blackjack I know the basics of it

certainly but I know that if I don't you know there's certain edicts there's certain etiquette at the

blackjack table like hitting when you're not supposed to hit or otherwise, and you can make other players mad.

Should they get mad?

Probably not.

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