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

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 296.

Perhaps you're going through some great family vacation ideas and the notion of bringing

your family, friends, or both on a cruise so that everybody can enjoy one giant vacation together

sounds like a fantastic idea.

Certainly, cruising with friends is a mantra that I've repeated quite a few times here on this

podcast.

But with a great vacation comes great trip planning responsibilities.

And this week, I wanted to talk about how to best plan a group sailing, as one of our podcast listeners did just that.

We have some tips and tricks to share with you on this episode.

Here we go.

Inevitably, when you're planning a cruise vacation, I think at some point everyone starts

thinking, you know, this is a great idea.

Love the idea of going on a cruise, but maybe it'd be great if we brought my friends on board or my siblings or my parents or your parents or their parents or that guy he went to college with one time.

Like, inevitably, you want to bring your friends and family with you on a cruise.

Sounds like a great idea.

And it can be, but there's some nuances, let's put it that way, a cruise. Sounds like a great idea, and it can be, but there's some nuances,

let's put it that way, of planning a group cruise, especially when your group grows beyond maybe

just two or three couples. And on today's episode, we want to tackle the subject of planning

a group sailing. And it's actually this idea, is not my idea.

It came from one of you guys, actually, one of our podcast listeners and actually joining

me on today's episode is Rebecca Winneberger from Baltimore, Maryland.

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