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 103.

For Royal Caribbean fans, one of the most exciting moments of your cruise vacation is when you pull up to the pier on embarkation day

and start the cruise vacation that you may have been counting down to for even years.

This week, let's discuss what to expect from curbside at the pier to that magical moment

when you step on board of your Royal Caribbean Cruise and everything in between.

Here we go.

I think I've said in this podcast just how much I really love embarkation date because it is

precisely when your cruise vacation begins.

No more planning,

no more watching other people's YouTube videos, no more wishing you were on a cruise because this

is the day where it all begins. And a big part of the embarkation day is what you do from when

you get to the port until you step on board your Royal Caribbean ship. And quite frankly, there's a lot

of things that you need to know about that'll be happening that day so i wanted to go through the different things that you'll have to go through to help

you be better prepared for the embarkation process which hopefully will mean a speedier and

simpler process for you and if we're talking about getting on a cruise ship it seems no one takes

more cruises than royal caribbean contributing writer michael pool welcome back to the podcast michael

hi matt hi podcast listeners it's uh i'm glad to be back and than Royal Caribbean Contributing Writer, Michael Poole. Welcome back to the podcast, Michael.

Hi, Matt. Hi, podcast listeners. I'm glad to be back, and I look forward to sharing this topic with everybody.

I know it's asked all the time. What is day one like?

Yeah, and Michael, full credit, Michael came up with this topic. I thought it's a great idea because I think there is a lot that goes into it. And if you're new to cruising or even just if you're new to Royal Caribbean, it's, I don't want to say it's daunting, but there's a lot of

things that you probably don't think about that are going to go into this day. No, there's not.

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