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

I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 320. How do you figure out the best cruise

for you? Yeah, you, no, not you, you. That's the question everyone goes through when picking a

Royal Caribbean cruise, and this week we're looking at how to tackle the prospect of comparing

cruises, itineraries,

and ships to find the right cruise for you.

So let's go through the process and offer some insight in helping you pick that great next

Royal Caribbean Cruise.

Here we go.

Picking the right Royal Caribbean cruise may sometimes seem like, especially if you're new to cruising, a gargantuan task, there's a lot of considerations.

But today, I've got really, I think about 10 or so tips, guidelines, ways to think about picking your first Royal Caribbean cruise because there's a lot of factors to go into picking one.

And here's the short answer, by the way, is that you really, it's hard to make a mistake.

I would say the only way you can really make a mistake in picking the perfect cruise for you

is to do absolutely no research, randomly pick a ship for some arbitrary reason and show up.

And even then, you still probably have a decent shout-out because one of the nice things about Royal Caribbean is their entire fleet of ships is designed to be as consistent as possible.

Now, in practice, that may not actually be the case, but there is always a little exception here and there.

But in reality is whether we're talking about, you know, brilliance of the seas or symphony of the seas or anthem of theas, there is a lot of carryover between these ships.

There's a common core, if I can borrow a term from the educational system here,

where, you know, there's a certain constants in the presentation you'll find on a Royal Caribbean

that makes going from ship to ship simple.

And so when we're talking about different ships, it's not a giant leap of logic or understanding between them.

There are going to be some significant differences between some of the ships.

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