Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast. We can look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hotschberg, and this is episode number 509. What should somebody who's

brand new to Royal Caribbean know before they book their first cruise? I've been thinking about

this question a lot, and today I wanted to focus on the most important things that somebody

who's brand new to Royal Caribbean shouldings to think about, here we go.

A real crissing cruise is, of course, a wonderful family vacation. I recommend to a lot of people any opportunity I have. And the saying of, you know, you don't know what you don't know is

certainly true when it comes to cruising. A lot of first timers make a lot of mistakes, and there are many things that are simply

impossible to know until you go.

I'm not talking about things like needing a passport or something that you can pretty

easily look up, and that falls under, I think, more ignorance than anything else.

But the bottom line is, there are some things that simply as new cruisers, if you're not

armed with the

information by listening to somebody else or reading a blog like my site or something like

that, you're not going to have that information because it's not necessarily obvious.

And Royal Caribbean doesn't post it.

Royal Caribbean does share a lot of information with cruisers what to do, but their experience is generally based on

giving people just the facts, like the bare minimums to get them on board the ship. After all,

everybody cruises differently, right? So they're going to say, hey, by the way, do the online

check in and go check out this show, but skip this restaurant and do that, like, they're never

going to do that because, you know, obviously it's a very subjective experience

and people do it all differently.

Anyway, this is where I think, I like to think anyway, that advice like this podcast come in.

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