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

I'm your host Matt Hatchberg, and this is episode number 32.

Royal Caribbean rewards its most loyal cruisers with benefits and perks.

At the highest level is Pinnacle, which is a tier of rewards few will ever reach.

Today, we talked to a cruiser who just reached the top of Crown and Anchor Society

and talks with us about what becoming a pinnacle cruiser is all about. Here we go.

You know, after a few Royal Caribbean cruises, I think we all start looking at the Crown and Anchor

Society. It's like, oh, look, there's an opportunity not only to earn certain rewards by being loyal

to royal, but also enjoy, certainly, some of the benefits of moving up in the statuses and

the tiers.

And I think we all look at it and we say, oh, wow, we're at gold, all right, this is great,

moving up to platinum and, ooherald nice and then you look at diamond and you think you've really made it

in life but some of us very few of us in fact at some point may reach pinnacle status and pinnacle status

is the uppermost limit of royal caribbean's crown and anchor. And it is 700 points in the system.

And many of you probably listening right now are like, okay, that's not going to happen.

But for some people, it is possible.

And actually today's guest has just reached 700 points.

It's actually someone that I've gotten to know quite well over the years.

Great colleague, good support of everything we do over here.

It is, of course, Ken Jarvis from rcperiscopers. Live.

Welcome, Mr. Jarvis.

Thank you so much, Matt.

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