Hurricane season redux
Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast
Matt Hochberg
4.9 • 663 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Matt shares the lessons he learned from what happens when a hurricane directly impacts your cruise plans.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Royal Crime Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 318. |
| 0:25.2 | We've talked in past episodes about cruising during hurricane season, but this week's episode |
| 0:29.2 | hits close to home because the impact of a hurricane directly affected my cruise plans. |
| 0:33.9 | And on this episode, I'll be sharing my thoughts on what everyone needs to know about planning for a cruise during hurricane season. Here we go. |
| 0:45.0 | As some of you were aware, I had plans to go on Royal Caribbean's Mariner the Seas for Labor |
| 0:49.2 | Day weekend and enjoy a nice three nights a day. Actually, my wife and I were going to go without |
| 0:54.1 | the kids, get away for a long weekend, and enjoy a great cruise.night sailing. Actually, my wife and I were going to go without the kids, |
| 0:55.1 | get away for a long weekend, and enjoy a great cruise. It was going to be perfect because over a |
| 0:59.0 | Labor Day weekend, I was going to be able to come back on that Monday and not have to worry |
| 1:03.6 | about getting back in time for work so we could have taken it easy, could have taken a nap |
| 1:07.6 | after that, always hectic last morning of the cruise and it would have been a |
| 1:11.1 | great selling I think and we know going a perfect day Cocoa key ah we had such grand plans and |
| 1:16.1 | unfortunately the realities of cruising during hurricane season reared their ugly head and a lot of |
| 1:22.8 | things happened and I want to talk about this in this week's episode because I'm recording this |
| 1:27.1 | in the days since everything happened in terms of the forecast, the actual hurricane, and the ultimate cancellation of our cruise, or my decision to cancel the cruise, I should say. |
| 1:39.7 | And we'll get into all that. |
| 1:40.6 | But I wanted to record this episode while it was all fresh in my mind, |
| 1:44.9 | because this episode is, I'm really trying to frame this around advice and insight for anyone |
| 1:49.9 | else who's looking to plan a cruise during hurricane season. |
| 1:53.3 | And I hate to be one of those people that's like, oh, you shouldn't cruise during hurricane season. |
| 1:56.3 | It's not a good idea, blah, blah, blah. |
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