Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast.

You're going to look into the world of Royal Caribbean Cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 488.

You know, when it comes to cruising, there's a lot of misconceptions out there about Royal Caribbean cruises and cruises in general.

But I wanted to talk about some of the really common ones that pop up if you're a brand new cruiser.

Here we go.

So earlier this week, I posted on real cream blog.com, an article about common misconceptions

about a real estate cruise. And I thought it would be interesting to talk about this more in detail

here and kind of share some context and insight into these misconceptions because we get a ton of questions on real

cream blog.com every single day, whether it's on our message boards, whether it comes into one

of our live streams we do in YouTube or Facebook or even people just filling out the contact

us form, which is not really meant for that, but I still get these questions anyway.

There's a lot of concerns about cruising and people just asking things because I think a lot of people come to cruising from other forms of travel,

whether it's just going to hotels or cities or airplanes.

Anyway, and when they do that, there's definitely some differences and some nuances of taking a rural Caribbean cruise.

So this week I wanted to dive into some of these questions.

I think this will help people out.

Maybe you're a new cruiser and then obviously this will help you out directly.

But also, even if you've been there, done that kind of cruiser, I think it's interesting

to understand where a lot of other cruisers are coming from.

New cruisers, by the way, are a huge segment of the cruising population.

I mean, it's really what drives the cruise industry forward.

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