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

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeburg, and this is episode number two.

This week, let's take a look at one of the biggest areas of change across Royal Caribbean's

leaderships, the specialty restaurants.

Now, in my opinion, the dining aspect for the Royal Caribbean passenger has changed probably the

most over the last 10 years or so, and it continues to become more and more of a focal point when going on a cruise.

So let's look at the role of the specialty restaurants offer guests now,

the various options to choose from, and where dining aboard Royal Caribbean is going in the future.

Of course, we're going to have to talk about some of our favorite restaurants to eat as well.

And before this episode is over, I'm going to share with you some of the amazing feedback that I've received from all of you just from episode one.

So here we go.

As I said earlier, specialty restaurants and dining on Royal Caribbean's food has really changed a lot over the last 10 years or so.

And I really feel like it's something that's definitely gone from just an

aspect of cruising to becoming a real major part of your cruise experience.

And, you know, for anyone who's been on a Royal Caribbean cruise more than, say, like I said,

10, 15, 20 years ago, you know, really there was only one aspect of dining.

And that was the main dining room.

You went to, you got on board and you eat your meals either in the main dining room or later on, perhaps in the buffet, which we now, of course, know, is the windjammer. That's what it was. But of course, Royal Caribbean is always looking to innovate. And I'm not sure at the time they really felt this way. But, you know, they started to add more stuff. Let's try something new. And that was the idea of adding a specialty restaurant. This is a restaurant that costs extra in addition to the food.

Because don't forget the main dining room and the windjammer and any other free food,

all the food on board was basically free.

It was basically free.

It was kind of a foreign concept because you're going to start adding now a restaurant

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