Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hachberg, and this is episode number 310.

This week's episode is dedicated to you.

Yes, you listening right now because we're only answering your cruise questions.

Well, maybe not just your questions.

Questions that everybody who listens to this podcast have sent in. We're going to try to answer as many questions as we can

on this week's episode of the Royal Cream Blog Podcast. Here we go.

The other day I was answering emails and I noticed that the Royal Crime Blog podcast

inbox was getting a little full.

So I wanted to dedicate this week's episode to answering your cruise questions.

You can always send me emails to Matt at Royal Caribbeanblog.com.

Matt, M-A-T-T at Royal CaribbeanBlog.com.

My first email this week is from Rob Chang.

Hey, Matt, it's been a long hiatus, but I'm back to cruising.

After our last cruise in 2016, my wife said we needed to purge yourselves from cruising vacations for a bit and do some land vacations instead. Oh, hang on, Rob. I'm going to stop you right there. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life. Okay, just kidding. Here we go. Let's continue with Rob's email. However, much as much a hated idea, I lived by the philosophy, happy wife, happy life. The last couple of years, we did a great land tour through Europe and a fun road trip through the Northwest, which included a tour of a few presidential libraries, all fun and memorable moments, but at the end of the day, I miss cruising. My wife said she would only do a cruise, we went somewhere we hadn't gone before, so I suggest Alaska. Not only, but when I found out that ovation of this was coming from Australia, I put my foot down and demanded we go. Okay, she got excited too. Well, all that said, I have one question. I booked two connecting inside rooms with virtual balconies. The question I have is whether I can purchase just one unlimited photo package for both rooms. One room has me on my 13 year old, and the other is my wife and nine year old. If we'd gotten just one balcony, then this question would have been moot. But since we split up to get more space, taking your advice, we're faced with the dilemma. Have you ever faced this? And do you have any advice on how to get around this? Love your episodes on Alaska trip really helped a lot. Blessings to you and your family long live, Royal Caribbean blog. Rob, thanks for the email, dude. I'm glad to hear you're back on, back on the wagon? Yeah, fell off the way. I'm not sure how that metaphor works, but I am glad you're listening to the podcast and more importantly, you're cruising again, dude. So to answer your question, my understanding of the photo package is whomever buys it. So let's say you buy it, Rob, and you're going to put it under your name. As long as you're in the photo, I think it counts. I think that goes toward the allotment. I don't think that will be an issue for you in terms of getting the photos, you know, obviously for your family photos with people technically in another room because you're in the photo. I think you're good to go there. You can double check this on board the ship, but that's my understanding of it. Next, we have an email from Charlotte Kennedy, who writes with the port of Galveston and Royal Caribbean signing an agreement to build a new cruise terminal in Galveston. What do you think the chances to get into a waste-cloth ship in Galvest? We have flown to Fort Lauderdale and Miami for the alert and the symphony. We would love to do an oasis class in Galveston since only about an hour's drive from our home in Houston. Thanks for all the great work you do. I love your informative podcast every week. Charlotte, thanks to the email. So Charlotte, you are touching on a ripe rumor, my dear. So as Charlotte is absolutely correct, Royal Caribbean did announce, I think late last year,

that they're building a new cruise terminal in Galveston.

Now the rumor has been around for quite a while now, at least a couple months, not a year,

that an oasis class ship is coming to Galveston.

It's one of those rumors, Charlotte, where Royal Crimean has all but confirmed the rumor at this point.

There's been a lot of strong hinting, a lot of winking, nudging, and so forth.

My sense of it, based on what I've heard, Charlotte, is that when Royal Crime releases

2021 sailings, specifically probably winter, which will be coming

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