Welcome to the Royal Caribbean blog podcast.

We could look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your house, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 420.

On the cruises I've been on this year, I've seen a lot of things happening and included a lot of mistakes as well.

And today, I wanted to share the top five mistakes I'm still seeing people make going on a Royal Caribbean cruise in 2021. Here we go.

As you all know, I love sharing tips and advice about what to do and what not to do.

And based on what I've seen on cruise ships, as well as, of course, different comments and reports

at Royal Caribbean blog.com, like on our message boards as an example, there's definitely been a

pattern, some of the biggest mistakes, some of the most commonly seen issues that I think

are totally avoidable. And in today's episode, I wanted to focus on these because I think

it's important for everybody listening to be aware of these to avoid them because listen mistakes are in some cases subjective one person's mistakes

and other person's like okay whatever and but I think in this situation the five I have are 100%

mistakes that should be avoided don't do these things and I wanted to share these with you and

again these are not necessarily mistakes that didn't occur before the pandemic but I'm still seeing them and I wanted to share these with you. And again, these are not necessarily

mistakes that didn't occur before the pandemic, but I'm still seeing them and I think they've

been exacerbated by the pandemic. Number one is ignorance of the change in policies. Now, if you're

listening to this episode, I think statistically speaking, you're not this person, but this is really

for your family members and friends who may be going on a cruise sometime soon.

You've probably read or seen some headlines of various folks who've gone to their cruise and,

oh, couldn't believe it, they were denied entry.

Oh, the Royal Caribbean is so evil.

How could they possibly deny entry to these poor people who weren't aware that they

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