Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, your weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising. I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg and this is episode number 4702.

I just got back from a three-night roller creeping cruise on Independence of the Seas and got me

thinking about is a three-night weekend cruise really worth it. Let's talk about it. Here we go.

This past weekend, we took the family on a three-night cruise on Independence of the Seas

to the Bahamas, and we had a great time, but of course, inevitably, when we get to like day

three of the cruise, my wife and I get into the eternal debate of, is it really worth it to do

with three-night cruise?

And why would we even bring that up?

We're on a cruise ship, having great time and we enjoyed it. The issue, of course, is that basically the end of the cruise comes a lot quicker than a longer cruise.

That's probably not much of a surprise, right?

Obvious Matt.

But the reality is time flies when you have fun.

And on a three-night cruise, it really flies because you have such little time on board. And it gets you thinking,

you know, is it really worth it in the grand scheme of things like to have all the effort

to pack and get ready for the cruise and have a great time, but to get off the ship so quickly

as opposed to doing all that work and then going on a longer selling, which is a little

bit more of a better payoff, if you will. Now, first and foremost, being someone that lives in Florida and has access to cruise ships a lot,

we are definitely spoiled. And this episode is almost certainly a first world problem. So I'm not

trying to make my plight of, oh no, a three-night cruise as poor, poor Matt. I understand that. I'm not

splitting hairs about that.

I totally get that. But I think a lot of people inevitably are kind of thinking about,

is it really worth to do with three-night cruise, especially when you're trying to pick out

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