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

I'm your house, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 368.

Something that so many of us are now dealing with are future cruise credits and how to deal with getting them, redeeming them, and of course, waiting for them.

So this week's podcast will talk all about FCC's and what to expect when you're expecting.

Here we go.

This week's podcast episode may be a long time coming because, you know, even though cruising has obviously been shut down since about mid-March, we've all been going through different phases of, I think, this very topic, which of course are future cruise credits.

And prior to the whole shutdown, you know, future cruise credits were really something that

were relegated to what I would call major problems, screw-ups, cancel cruises because of a

hurricane, obviously.

But they were very few and far between.

And to be perfectly honest with you, most people never dealt with future cruise credits.

I got my first future cruise credit on a spring break cruise in which there was a maintenance issue on my cruise. And because it was such a, they had to take a couple days to fix it, they felt

bad and gave me some future cruise credit to you. So it really was something that you rarely

dealt with as an average cruiser, I would say.

But of course, with so many cruises being canceled, future cruise credits are definitely something that you, a lot of people are dealing with.

In fact, I would say if you're listening to this podcast and you have not gotten or had the

option of getting a future cruise credit, I can only think either you booked a cruise

way in advance or like 2022 or you've never cruised the Royal Criminal before. And I hope that you

never run into this issue, but future cruise credits are a really important topic because

it is so prevalent to what is happening. So this week I wanted to talk about that. Let's start

with what a future cruise credit is, FCC, and it's essentially

a voucher for future travel. Similar to, you know, you might get vouchers for like airlines or even

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