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 289.

I've got some great news.

You've got about a week to go before your Royal Caribbean cruise, and that means your vacation

will be starting soon, but what should you be doing now to prepare for it?

When you plan a cruise, there are many details to keep track of short

excursions, dinner reservations, the right gear to have, getting to the port, but it all comes

to a head in the exciting and hopefully not panicked hours before the cruise begins. Whether you're

making final tweaks to what's in the suitcase or bravely starting from scratch, here are some

important things every cruiser should do to ensure their

Royal Green Cruise goes off without a hitch. Here we go. As I was preparing for this week's

podcast episode, I have a cruise coming up here in a couple of days, and of course, as you might

imagine, I'm very excited about it, and as you also might imagine, it's really the topic du jour in this household. And as such, in the days leading up to our

cruise, inevitably, we start going through, I think, what a lot of people do, which is that, oh, man,

we got a couple days before our cruise. It's exciting, but we've also got to figure out what we're

going to be doing to get ready for that cruise. Make sure we've got everything covered.

The nature of the last couple days before your cruise goes from a situation in which you had months and weeks to plan to all of a sudden, oh, geez, I forgot to get all this stuff

or what am I forgetting, right?

And so this week's episode is really dedicated towards looking at what you can be doing

in those last couple days,

that week leading up to your Royal Caribbean cruising.

Number one thing, let's start with the most obvious and work through some things maybe

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