Points Choice Is Here. I Have Thoughts.
Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast
Matt Hochberg
4.8 • 693 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Now that we have all the details regarding Points Choice and how it will work, Matt shares what he thinks of the new program and what stands out about it.
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| 0:00.0 | In Roller Caribbean, I think there's good news, there's great news, and there's surprising news. |
| 0:03.9 | And I think Points Choice, when it was announced in October, certainly fit pretty much all three of them. |
| 0:09.7 | But now with the formal announcement of what Points Choice is and how you can earn points by cruising on Celebrity and Silver Sea, it certainly checks those boxes again. |
| 0:17.9 | I mean, I'm really impressed by what this is. |
| 0:20.4 | And if you haven't been following |
| 0:21.3 | this real Caribbean group now is going to allow me, beginning at the end of this month, to sail on |
| 0:25.4 | a celebrity cruise or a Silver Sea cruise and earn crown and anchor points, also you could go the other |
| 0:30.9 | way and go on Royal Caribbean and earn Captain's Club points within celebrity. But for the first time ever, |
| 0:36.2 | you're going to be able to go on one of |
| 0:37.8 | these other lines and be able to earn points to the program of your choice. Up until now, if you |
| 0:43.2 | want on a Celebrity Cruise, you would earn celebrity points. This is a little confusing because |
| 0:47.4 | there has been status matching already, where if you're a diamond member in Crown and Anchor |
| 0:51.9 | Society, anyone on celebrity, |
| 0:57.1 | you would get, I believe, elite status over there. |
| 1:00.7 | But your point total would still be zero, if that makes sense. |
| 1:04.2 | Anyway, now you can actually earn points in the program of your choice. |
| 1:09.0 | I think it's a huge deal, and I think this is something that's really going to be a win-win for both consumers and the company. Because why is Real |
| 1:13.1 | Caribbean doing this? It's one reason. I'd say one reason only, but there's the top reason. |
| 1:17.2 | The number one reason why somebody at Real Caribbean thought about this is to make the monies. |
| 1:21.7 | They were thinking about, look, where, how do we drum up more business? Well, obviously, their |
| 1:27.4 | bread and butter has been to, you know, go after the new cruise market, |
| 1:30.8 | but there is an established cruiser market, a very loyal one that Royal Caribbean enjoys, |
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