Welcome to the Royal Crime and Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Crime and Cruising.

I'm your house Matt Hodgeberg and this is episode number 212.

Much has changed in the cruise industry over the past number of years, including how

Royal Caribbean prices its cruises.

The dynamic of how cruise lines price their product plus the ever-present drive for guests to find a deal go hand-in-hand

with looking holistically at the price of a cruise.

This week, we take a deep dive into the economics of cruise pricing and compare and contrasts how

Royal Caribbean and Disney Cruise Line price themselves and how the price integrity policy

on Royal Caribbean's part is at the heart of

how much your next Royal Caribbean cruise will cost. Here we go. Royal Caribbean's made a lot of changes

over the years and its changing businesscape has forced and given the company the opportunity

to make these changes that have enhanced or perhaps just

improved things for the company looking forward, and one of which has been pricing.

It's certainly a hot topic these days in the very, very red-hot cruise industry.

And to talk about more how cruise lines price themselves and how royalist positioning itself and other cruise lines as well,

I brought on the knowledge base that is Lentesta co-author of the unofficial guide to Disney Cruise Line 2017,

which by the way has a phenomenal forward by a certain blogger, I might say, Scott Sanders, obviously.

And welcome to the show.

How's it going, Matt? Wasn't expected that. Welcome. Welcome to the show. How's it going, Matt?

I wasn't expected that.

Yeah, there's a, I have on page seven, I believe.

There's a nice little write-up that they allowed me to put in there, and I completed my

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