I Don’t Understand Why Cruisers Worry About These Things
Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast
Matt Hochberg
4.8 • 693 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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While there are things cruisers should think about, some concerns just aren't worth worrying about.
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| 0:00.0 | There are plenty of things you should worry about on a real green cruise, but there are also other things that I get asked about all the time that I just want to tell people like, you don't have to worry about it. |
| 0:08.7 | It's not something that is really worthy of your concern. |
| 0:13.6 | What I mean by them is that they're valid, like, concerns in the sense that they think about it. |
| 0:18.3 | But the likelihood that it's really going to negatively impact your cruise or something you should pay that close attention to, I think it's overblown. And I was recently asked this on one of my YouTube lives that we do every Monday, by the way, on our YouTube channel at 7.30 p.m. Eastern. Someone asked me about, you know, the weather in, is it better to go in January or March for a cruise in terms of it being warm? And like, I kind of hemmed and haught about it a little bit because the issue isn't so much that one is superior. I mean, March is probably going to be warmer. But, like, I wouldn't avoid a cruise in January. I mean, I joke that you should do both. But, like, January is still a great time to go. I love going on cruise in January. Yeah, it's not nearly as warm as other months of the year. |
| 0:56.5 | But as long as you're going somewhere with a heated pool, which, hey, I forget if this question was about the Royal Beach Club or not, but like, you know, if you have a heated pool, you're good. Like, enjoy it. Take advantage of it. but that's like one of the things like weather in general is one of those things because like this |
| 1:11.5 | question not not this person's question but another question related to that one that one of the things like weather in general is one of those things because like this |
| 1:11.5 | question not not this person's question but another question related to that one that |
| 1:15.0 | really it doesn't make my skin crawl but it's just like did you think about this question |
| 1:19.3 | is what's the weather like in blank in certain month here in blank place and I always |
| 1:25.8 | want to respond and I sometimes do actually say something like you know if I ask you, hey, I'm going to come to your hometown and visit you in, you know, July, what's the weather going to be like? You'd probably be like, I mean, it could be rainy, it could be sunny, it could be hot, it could be cold, it could be humid. Like, there's just so many variations of it. It's not so much like there is some constant out there. |
| 1:47.1 | This is especially true also of somewhat related to this. |
| 1:49.9 | People who ask about the ocean conditions. |
| 1:52.9 | Is this month going to be, if I go on a cruise and this month on this ship, am I going to get seasick? |
| 1:58.0 | Or is it going to be less likely to be motion in the ocean? |
| 2:02.1 | And I get where people are coming from. Listen, if you've never been on a cruise before, I think this is probably a question that makes a lot of logical sense. But it's like asking you to predict the weather in your hometown at any point in the year, like more than six months in advance. I mean, it's nearly impossible. And this is something that a lot of people |
| 2:18.0 | who know cruise ever, or haven't cruised a lot of, probably think about a lot. And it's one of the, |
| 2:24.3 | it's just obviously I try to do my best here to share with all of you, you know, why you can't |
| 2:29.0 | think about that. Because the weather, no matter whether, no matter the region of the world, |
| 2:33.6 | no matter the time of year, it can vary considerably. |
| 2:37.6 | I mean, yes, obviously, if we're talking about a Caribbean cruise in March, we don't have to worry about hurricanes. |
| 2:44.1 | But, like, that's kind of like an outlier situation. |
| 2:47.0 | Like, I mean, that's a major thing. |
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