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

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 491.

Royal Caribbean is going to be opening officially now.

It's Beach Club in 2025.

So this week, we're going to preview what this beach club in NASA is all about.

Here we go.

So if you're like me, you might have been really excited about this idea.

In fact, ever since I heard about the idea of a Royal Beach Club, I was super pumped for it

because I love this idea that it's not quite a private island, but it is something else to do.

A more curated experience that Royal Caribbean offers.

So let's backtrack for a second because some of you may be hearing this for the first time.

So pre-pandemic, Royal Caribbean announced this concept called the Royal Beach Club.

Essentially, this is Royal Caribbean's own shore excursion, if you will.

It's not meant to be a private island in which everybody on the ship can go to.

It's meant to augment and not replace a regular port stop. The first Royal Beach Club was

actually supposed to be in Antigua, and I'm not sure where the status of that project is,

but a second Beach Club was announced in March of 2020 for NASA. Now, this area has not changed.

The intention of it was to be featured in the land on Paradise Island. That's a cross from where the cruise ship stock.

If you've ever cruised into Nassau,

there's those thin strip of land that has that lighthouse.

And if you continue looking off to your right,

you would see at the Atlantis Resort.

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