Welcome to the roll from my blog podcast, your weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this episode of our 550.

This week, we are talking about the things that people who don't cruise or hate cruises get wrong.

Here we go.

If this week's episode sounds a little bit different, because we're recording it on board Royal Caribbean's Voyager of the Seas.

It's actually our 2024 Royal Caribbean blog group cruise. We do two group cruises a year, and we're actually recording this one from the beautiful Exotic Conference Center on Voyager of the Seas before a live studio audience.

So if you're listening to this episode at home, we're watching to be able to join us for

it at some point because it's a lot of fun of people to be able to share in the experience

of all of you.

But today I want to talk about things people really get wrong because it's one thing if you

go on a cruise and you make a mistake or you miss out on something, that's fine.

That's just part of the experience, right? But there are people, and I'm sure you've all dealt with them who have never cruised before

and or don't cruise purpose.

I think there is the decision of people who have never cruised, people who don't cruise because they have a reason for not doing it, whatever the reason may be.

And they come up with these excuses or things that they really think a cruise is all about.

And I wanted to debunk some of those today.

So let's start with an easy one.

Number one, campy entertainment.

A lot of the cases, people think that cruise ships, when you go on them, it's like, you know,

zany kind of like things that you roll your eyes at the type of entertainment that might be

I'm not sure if they consider it to be maybe outdated like I don't know like vaudeville kind of stuff but like things

that are just like oh I can't believe they're still doing this kind of things and I at least have a

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