Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, your weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, in this episode of our 531.

Do you want to know the best deal in cruising today?

With pricing of cruising being so high and a lot of prices for what used to be one thing and now it's something else, I get it.

There's a lot of frustration out there.

But I have found consistently the best deal out there is actually through Royal Creamings Casino.

And I want to share with you how and why I think booking a cruise through the casino might be

the best deal out there with a few caveats, obviously. Here we go. I've always on the lookout for a good

deal on any cruise. It doesn't take a whole lot for me to have a need or a reason to book a

particular sailing. And in the grand scheme of things over the years, I would scour the internet

for different deals and what's available

and try to find something that would be a good fit for our family and be able to go on a cruise.

And, you know, like, oh, look, there's a great price. We should book it because at that price,

it's totally worth it, right? There are other reasons to book a cruise, but that is one of them.

And these days, we've seen obviously

cruise pricing going up. We've seen the price of drink packages and go up. Heck, everything's

got them. This isn't just a cruise is just life in general, right? That being said, one of the

things that I really got turned on to in the last, certainly two years, but it's become more apparent

to me in the last year or so has been

Royal Caribbean's Casino Royale program. The casino within Royal Caribbean has its own loyalty program.

So you know, Crown and Acre Society, that's for, you know, the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line,

and that's for, you know, going on a cruise, the more selling you take, blah, blah, blah,

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