Welcome to the Royal Crime and Blog Podcast.

We're looking to the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg and this is episode number 489.

Last week, Royal Caribbean announced it's Winter Caribbean Cruises and released cruises for about 13 ships.

So today I wanted to talk about this deployment and what you can expect.

Here we go.

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Royal Caribbean released new 2024 and 2025 cruises from the Northeast U.S.

and additional Caribbean sailings for the winter of 2024 into 2025.

And I thought it would be a good idea to talk about these new sailings.

I'd like to get more in the habit of talk about new itinerary releases because I think that's pretty relevant for a lot of people when there's new deployments release, it's an opportunity to look at planning some new vacations. As many of you know,

one of my top tips is to plan your cruise as early as you can. And certainly if you can jump in

on a new it itinerary deployment and book a cruise literally like day one or certainly

very, very quickly after real company releases it, you can sometimes find some really good

deals going forward. So whether you are bargain hunting or you're just looking for a fun cruise

to go on, this week I want to talk about this release cycle. So this is actually the last of the

release cycle primarily for, let's call it, this season.

It began in November, and we're looking to release new itineraries back in November and December.

And then they've done so here in the month of February.

There are still a couple of outliers that are left, Singapore, Australia, and China.

Australia comes out the week of May 1st. Singapore is the week of July 24th and China's TBD. But I think for most of our listening

audience, we're mostly focused on North America, Alaska, and Europe. No offense to our

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