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 209.

Have you ever wondered, hmm, how can I get a Royal Caribbean cruise for free?

Or how can I save a lot of money on my cruise?

Or how can I put a lot of money down to make sure that my cruise is really inexpensive?

These are all questions many of us have thought about. And no, this isn't a sales pitch. how can I put a lot of money down to make sure that my cruise is really inexpensive?

These are all questions many of us have thought about.

And no, this isn't a sales pitch.

This is actually an idea about how credit cards potentially can help with that.

A lot of folks, in fact, a lot of people listening to this episode will tell you that credit cards are a way, a possible way of saving money on Royal Caribbean Cruise or just the general vacation.

And this week, we're going to talk all about how you can use credit cards, effectively, to save money on a cruise.

In fact, even earn a free Royal Caribbean Cruise.

Here we go.

These days, everyone's always looking for ways to save on their Royal Caribbean cruise vacation. Every little bit helps, right?

And for a lot of people, sometimes they look at credit cards as a way of doing so.

And this week, we wanted to talk about how credit cards potentially could save you money,

maybe save, actually, in some cases, actually pay for your whole cruise, believe it or not.

And we need to say before at the start of this, at the onset of this episode, we're not

financial experts.

We just pretend to play them on podcast episodes.

And that being said, fiscal responsibility is a really big deal, and you should not make

fiscal decisions based on a random episode of the Rollgren blog podcast

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