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

I'm here host Matt Hachberg, and this is episode number 392.

You know, while there's no cruises going on, social media has been a buzz with basically

anything you could possibly throw at, including unconfirmed speculation about cruise ships.

And I've heard a lot of them over the last couple months, number of months,

year, even.

And on this week's episode, I'm going to break down the unconfirmed cruise ship rumors that get

repeated all the time by cruise fans.

Here we go.

So this week, I wanted to talk about something that always gets me either rolling my eyes,

shaking my fist angrily, or binding my teeth as I read

unfounded speculation that people pass off as basically facts now. It's not just the rumors. People

really truly believe this. And the issue is, you know, what one person's guess turns into

this assumption that is going to be the case.

And listen, sometimes guesses are right, but in a lot of cases, they're not.

But more importantly, spreading guesses as fact is a mistake because it's misleading a lot of people out there.

And there's a lot of different opinions going on right now about where cruising is going, where it'll be, what will or will not be

implemented, and I get that. It's a ripe discussion. There's plenty of these kind of discussions

on the real recording blog message boards. And having seen plenty of these quote unquote

predictions passed around as truth, I thought that it was important to talk about because, of

course, there's something called the illusory truth effect, which is the tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure.

And there is belief in many circles that this is the case when it comes to cruises.

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