Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, your weekly look at the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 4663.

As your cruise gets closer and you're just a couple days away, there are some important things I think everybody should be doing.

And today, I've got the last minute things you should be doing right before your cruise.

Here we go. No matter how many cruises I take, the last couple days before my cruise,

there's always a little bit of ambiguity as to am I doing everything I should be leading up to

that cruise? Because when you get just days away from your cruise, you start to think about time's

running out. What do I need to do before we go? Ideally, you'll plan all these things out

months in advance leading up to

your cruise, but even myself, I find myself like there's just a lot of juggling in those last

couple of days to ensure that I've all got it ready to go. So today, I wanted to talk about the last

minute things to do up to three days before the cruise. This is the last 72 hours or so before you're going to board

your cruise ship. In short, there's a lot of little things to manage. I think by this point,

all the big stuff has been taken care of, but the worst feeling is when you realize after you

leave home that you forgot something. Even something minuscule can be just as frustrating to forget

because it could have been prevented. So in an effort to avoid that, oh, no, feeling in the car or plane ride to your cruise ship,

I wanted to talk this week about the important things you should do in those last couple days leading up to your cruise.

Not everything can wait for the last couple days.

So if you neglected your passport expiration date up until now or you didn't book your short excursions up until now. You may be out of luck in that regard. But I wanted to talk about some of the littler things that everybody was you doing in

those last couple days. Number one, make sure you do everything in the online check. And if you want to

have the online checking process, be as fast as possible in the cruise terminal. And you want to

get on the board of the ship as quickly as possible, do everything in the online check-in. Basically,

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