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

I'm your house, Matt Hodgeburg, and this is episode number 134.

When it comes to planning a Royal Caribbean cruise, nearly all of us have a budget in mind.

Being independently wealthy is more elusive than ever, so saving money on our cruise means we have more money to spend either on board or on another Royal Caribbean cruise.

This week, I'm sharing

with you some tips and strategies for saving money on common cruise expenditures such as alcoholic

drinks, specialty dining, internet, and a whole lot more. I hope many of you will be able to spend

less on your cruise so you have more money to book another Royal Caribbean cruise. Here we go.

Part of what I really love about taking Royal Caribbean cruise is just the breadth of options to

choose from. I think Royal Caribbean does a great job, in fact, of giving guests lots of choice.

To me, I would rather have lots of choices and have almost indecision in the sense

of what to do rather than not having enough choice. I really believe that variety is the spice

of life, as they say. And to that point, Royal Caribbean gives its guests a lot to choose from

once on board. In fact, their cruise ships are becoming more and more destinations in and of themselves

with some of their newer classes of ship.

But regardless of which Royal Caribbean ship you're on, there's going to be plenty for

you to do.

Real Caribbean's kind of built itself on that premise of giving guests just a floating spot

of a lot to do.

It's more than just a hotel room, right? And so when we're

talking about things to do in a real crudmanship, inevitably, the first reaction is, well, I'm

to do it all, baby. Yeah, I'm going to do it all. That's right. I always think the same thing,

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