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 423.

So what is it like to go on a cruise right now?

We've had a few months of cruise ships returning, so what is it actually like to go back on a cruise?

And what should you know?

We're going to talk all about that.

Here we go.

Okay. back on a cruise and what should you know we're going to talk all about that here we go it doesn't seem that long ago that we were so excited for just one ship to be restarting from north

america i remember an adventure of the seas in june and now fast forward we're almost through

september almost on the heels of october here and you know a lot of ships are back. In fact, more than half the fleet is back in service. And that leads me still to a lot of people who are asking, you know, basic questions about what's it like to go on a cruise. Certainly, there have been a number of folks who have been able to get back on a ship. Again, as I mentioned, a lot of ships are back in service. And I think a lot of cruise enthusiasts, people that really, truly love cruising

are the ones that have been going on these sailings. But there's still, I think, a lot of people

who are sitting on the sidelines for a variety of reasons, whether it is the requirements, the

protocols, general concern, and an easiness about everything.

Who knows?

But there's a lot of people who are just curious what it is like.

And, you know, with cruise ships back again, and now that we've been back for a little while,

I thought it might be a good opportunity to talk about what it's truly like going on a cruise right now.

Because this is a question that, honestly, I get, they don't ask me that question directly,

what's like to go on a cruise,

but I get questions that are totally related to that idea.

And I've been, for the record, by the way,

I've been on about seven cruises since the restart.

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