Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast, a week of look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your house, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 273.

If you're planning your first Royal Caribbean vacation, we think we've got some tips that will help you save time and money to make the most of your trip.

We've also included some ideas that you may not consider when making your vacation plans.

But even if you plan many a Royal Caribbean Cruise, we'd love it if you check out this week's podcast, too,

then chime in with your top tip for Royal Caribbean Cruise Planning.

Here we go. On our last Royal Caribbean cruise, we noticed that there were seem to be a lot of people who didn't know about a couple of easy ways to avoid making a few mistakes on their vacation.

So today, we're going to be going over some of our favorite tips of how to make

the most out of a Royal Caribbean cruise that we got asked pretty often, in fact, or we've seen

other people have issues with. And this week's episode of the podcast is actually being recorded

live. We actually invited some of our readers and listeners to come join us on Periscope and call

in with this.

So we're very excited for this opportunity to be able to share with you guys a live

opportunity to call in and be a part of the show because I got a lot.

I'm going to talk, number one, I got like 10 things I came up with off the bat of

rookie mistakes.

Number one, trying to do everything on board.

You know, you watch a Royal Caribbean commercial. You go on Royal Caribbean blog.com. You go on Facebook.

The second you learn anything about your career is, boy, you get excited. Boy, you have the

opportunity to learn a lot of cool things about your ship.

And then when you get on board, what do you want to do it all, right? I want to go do the

floor rider, and I want to go on the zip line, I want to go North Star, and I want to go eat

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