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

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 388.

How do you plan for a cruise in 2021, with there really not being any clear indication when cruises might restart?

Usually, planning for a cruise in the coming year is really a matter of following a pattern of tried and true strategies, but 2021 is going to be a mixed bag of cancellations, test cruises,

and a lot of changing rules. So this week, I'm sharing my advice for how to plan a cruise in

2021. Here we go. Happy New Year, everybody.

Thank you for joining us here on the Rollerling blog podcast.

And this week's episode, usually if I got to the beginning of the year,

we look forward to planning a cruise.

As I mentioned, that's very, very top of the episode,

is about really applying tried and true methodology.

There's a lot of great patterns out there for planning a cruise.

And usually this didn't

deviate all that much, but this year is going to be very different, obviously.

2020 was a wash.

I mean, unless you had a cruise in the first couple months of the year, you didn't go on a cruise,

right?

Unless we live in Singapore, I should add.

But in 2021, I think most of us said, okay, we're going to plan those cruises that

were deferred in 2020.

And now that we're in 21, it's still a question of how to approach cruises in this year,

whether your cruise is scheduled for March, July, October, or December.

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