Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, where we can look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your house, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 529.

I was on a spring break cruise last week, and I couldn't help and notice a few mistakes that some people were making on board.

And a couple of these really repeated themselves, and so I wanted to share some of these mistakes that I personally saw happening.

So that way, you're not doing it the same.

Here we go.

I took my family on a seven-night cruise on Railroadman's Wonder the Seas for Spring Break.

Spring break is one of my favorite times to go on a cruise because we've been built in time off with the kids.

It may not be the cheapest, it may not be the least crowded, but it's an advantageous time to go on a cruise, and as your kids get older, it's harder and harder

to find times that really fit into the schedule. Anyway, we talked about that cruise in last week's

episode. This week, I wanted to highlight six mistakes that I saw people make. Now, there are plenty

of cruise mistakes out there that anybody can make. And this is not intended to be a podcast episode

in which we talk all about them. I wanted to talk about the ones that I specifically ran into

that I couldn't help but notice. And I thought that maybe this would be a good, like,

real world example of some of these mistakes, Compton Falls, that appears. And that way, if you're

going in your cruise, whether it's spring break or any time of the year, you can avoid yourself.

First of all, and this one was a real head scratchier, but there are a lots of people who had no

idea this was a spring break cruise. And I laugh at it because it seems silly to even if they wouldn't know this,

but there are people that get on board and then are genuinely surprised that it's spring break.

Maybe it's because where they're from spring break is a different week of the year,

or they simply didn't associate spring break with March,

but there were 1,700 children on our spring

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