Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, where we can look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode of our 528.

I just got back from Wonder of the Seas for a spring break cruise, and taking the spring break cruise was surprising in a couple different ways.

I wanted to share my cruise experience with you up next.

Taking the roller cruising cruise over spring break

has become one of our family's annual tradition.

Spring break is a week that we have built into the school calendar,

which means that, of course,

it's easy to take our kids and go.

And since my kids are getting older,

taking them out of school during the school year

is almost impossible now, especially with my older child. It's just not going to happen. and since my kids are getting older, taking them out of school, like during the school year,

is almost impossible now, especially with my older child, it's just not going to happen.

So we certainly try to plan most of our cruises around the school calendar.

And if you go to spring break cruise, there's pros and cons of doing so.

Obviously, the pro being that, well, there's no time off required from the school calendar,

no absences, tardiness, anything like that, and there's no time off required from the school calendar, no absences,

tardiness, anything like that. And it's really convenient. The downside, of course, is it's spring break. It's a popular time. Brices are higher. There's a lot more demand for it. And that means a lot

more ships. I mean, spring break really is one of the most popular times in the winter besides

probably Christmas and New Year's, right? It's probably

Christmas and New Year's number one and then spring break number two. And this leads up into the

summer season, but you still have a lot of ships here in North America, which makes it very

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