Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, or we can look into the world of Royal Caribbean Cruising.

I'm your host Matt Hotschberg, and this is episode of our 532.

Today, we're talking Royal Beach Clubs, what this is all about and what you can expect.

Here we go.

A new trend you can expect over the next couple of years is going to be the introduction of the Royal Beach Clubs.

And this is something I think a lot of people should be paying attention to because I think it's going to radically transform a lot of how you plan your time in port.

Now traditionally, cruise ships go to different ports of call.

And beyond the obvious ones where they go to a place like, you know, San Juan

Puerto Rico or St. Thomas, there are private islands, right?

We've gotten used to these things.

Most people understand this concept where you have like a lobby-y or perfect day,

Cocoa key in which your ship pulls up to this place.

Everybody in the ship can get off the ship that they'd like to, and then they kind of, you know, do whatever they'd like to, right?

It's kind of, there's, most of it is complimentary,

and there's some things that cost our Sherlock Cabanas or whatnot.

Okay, we kind of get that.

Introducing a new concept, the Royal Beach Club.

The Royal Beach Club is essentially a Royal Caribbean Shore excursion. It's run in particular ports,

and we'll talk about those in a second, but the idea here is it is run in a port that you

otherwise can get in and do something else. Like it's not the only thing to do in this particular

port, number one. Number two, it is not available for every single person on the ship to do

if they wanted to. It's limited capacity

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