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 326.

If you listen to some of the best cruise advice, then you know you should fly into your cruise port at least a day ahead of time to guard against travel delays.

But what is there to do before your cruise in your embarkation city?

I've got some ideas to share in this week's episode.

Here we go.

Coming into the cruise port city you're leaving from, at least a day ahead of time, guards

against travel delays.

You know, if there's any kind of weather, airplane cancellation, whatever the case may

be, you're guarded against that,

and it buffers you against those kind of issues and ensures that you're not going to put your

entire cruise vacation in jeopardy as a result of them. But it has an additional benefit, and that

is starting your vacation just a little bit earlier. Coming into your cruise port city at least one

day ahead of time allows you to explore these cities. I mean, in some cases,

maybe you are flying in, you don't get into about, you know, nine or ten o'clock at night,

and you're literally just going to the hotel, sleeping, and then going to the cruise ship, in which

case, okay, but a lot of people do find the opportunity to spend a little bit of time in that city

beforehand. And today, I wanted to talk about some things to do in each of the major U.S. and even one Canadian

city to do before your cruise.

Now, I chose North America.

I know Royal Caribbean Cruises go from all over the world.

I apologize that I can't cover the entire world in this one episode.

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