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 174.

Of all the Royal Caribbean questions I'm asked, it's very common for me to hear from first-time cruisers who are concerned that they might be making a mistake when booking their first cruise itinerary.

There are a lot of options, so this week, I'm taking us the time to go over Royal Caribbean itinerary recommendations for first-time cruisers. Here we go.

If there's a fear about taking a Royal Caribbean cruise, whether you're a first-timer

or taking your 500th cruise, it's that you're doing the wrong thing, right? It's probably

one of the most common concerns that I run across.

And it's probably why a lot of times if you go on a real cream blog.com and you read the comments or

maybe listen to this podcast or you hang on with this on Periscope, you may start to notice a lot

of questions being repeated. And it's not because people can't read or don't listen.

It's because they're concerned. They generally want to make sure they're not making a mistake, and that's certainly

a very natural instinct, right, no matter what you're doing.

If you're going to have your car repaired, you're going to the dentist, or whatever

you're doing in your day-to-day life, you want to make sure you're not making mistakes.

And when it comes to taking a Royal Caribbean cruise, a lot of people have that fear as well, especially people that are either first-time cruisers or even just new to Royal Caribbean.

And so this week, I wanted to talk about itinerary recommendations for first-time cruisers.

Now, let me start off by saying there is probably no mistake you really can make in terms of

itineries. The only itineries I might ever say, you know what, this is probably not a good idea for a first-timer,

might be something like a transatlantic or an itinerary that's really port intensive,

but even then I'm not even sure I would go that far.

Certainly you might want to sway somebody one way or the other,

but the good thing to realize is you really can't go wrong with itinerary

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