Welcome to the Royal Crime blog podcast. We can look into the world of roller

cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hachberg and this is episode of 550.

We are in the midst of the new itinerary releases for 2026 and 27 and whether you're listening to this episode when this episode comes out or five years from now.

It's really important though to understand that this is a great time when new itinerers are released to start planning for it.

And I wanted to share my thoughts on how to plan for a cruise two years in advance and what you should think about.

Here we go.

Royal Caribbean typically releases new itineraries in November, December, and then again in the early spring, January, February, March,

something like that. And that pattern is an important one to keep in mind because when new cruises

are put on sale, it's one of the best opportunities to jump in and find a new cruise to book,

but also get some of the lowest pricing out there. And really, we've got to talk about those two

aspects of booking a cruise. Number one,

of course, is the new opportunity to book new cruises. When Rollgren puts out new deployments, and they do

that again for about five or six months, again, depends on the season, but you kind of get the idea,

that you're going to have new opportunities to have ships in different places and maybe even

go into different places. Now, in a lot of cases, there's a lot of

more of the same. So as an example, there's going to be a seven night cruise out of Miami. There's

going to be a seven night cruise out of Port Canaveral. There's going to be shorter cruises. There's

going to be Alaska cruises that it was seven nights. There's like no big surprises in that aspect,

but maybe it's the ship that's being positioned there, right? Or maybe those ships are going to different places.

Now, it's not common to have totally new itineraries to go completely different places you've ever seen before,

but perhaps there's an opportunity to visit a particular port that you haven't been to.

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