Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, you're a week to look into the world of Royal

Caribbean Cruises. I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 502. And today,

I wanted to talk about doing things differently. I'm always looking to change things up,

improve the way that I cruise, as today I wanted to share some easy ways that I think you

could do things differently in your cruise. Here we go.

So whenever I look at cruises, I always try to look at ways to improve and have a better

experience overall. In some cases, it's really doing things fundamentally differently, right?

Maybe booking a private tour instead of a Royal Caribbean excursion. Maybe it's booking a of an inside room. But in other cases, it's more of a subtle shift, maybe more of a

rather than B kind of thing. And I wanted to share some of these ways that I'm doing things differently

and things I think you can do differently on your next cruise. Now, certainly, I recognize there is no

incorrect way to cruise. It's more of just personal preferences than anything else.

I mean, we can talk about fundamental mistakes, but then there's a lot of ways that I think

could just be improved by doing things differently instead of eating at the buffet, why

not choose a specialty restaurant or arriving at the theater 10 minutes before a show begins?

Why not arrive earlier to get better seats?

Doing things slightly differently on a cruise can save you time and stress and make your overall

vacation more pleasant, quite frankly.

So I've got a number of different ways that can really help your cruise with a few of these

tweaks.

Starting with number one, something that we kind of discovered as a family, and that is applying

sunscreen on board the ship instead of when you get on to the beach.

So before you pack your sunscreen in your daybag, you might do a better job of actually

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