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 216.

Few topics create as much confusion or contention among cruisers as to what to wear on your

Royal Caribbean cruise, what to pack, and what to wear when has become a source of great debate

among Royal Caribbean cruisers.

Between dress codes for dinner, especially restaurants, and the clothing you'll wear during the day, there's a source of great debate among Royal Caribbean Cruisers. Between dress

codes for dinner, especially restaurants, and the clothing you'll wear during the day, there's

a lot to consider. There are plenty of choices, so let's jump into what you should think about

when planning what to wear on a Royal Caribbean cruise. Here we go. What to wear on your Royal Caribbean cruise has been a source of frustration for a lot of new cruisers.

In fact, there's some established cruisers still struggle with this.

And it's a weird topic because what to wear, I mean, we really don't go through this in our day-to-day lives necessarily, right?

But there's a lot of this confusion that emanates in cruising.

And I think a lot of it stems from the basic need

to ensure that you're not making a mistake. You're not going to be that one person, right?

You know those dreams you always have of having like no clothes in high school and everyone looking

at you, right? I mean, there's a deep-rooted fear there. But that has to do also with cruising

and that you don't want to be that guy, right? You don't want to be the person who shows them, like, oh, look at that person.

You want to do the right thing. You want to be properly prepared. It's a normal reaction and

something I think a lot of people look for, but it seems to generate a lot of confusion from first-time

cruisers and a lot of other folks as well as to what to wear on your cruise. Now, there's been a lot to discuss here, and to be perfectly honest with you, a lot of

this is opinion.

The rules, and I'm using the word rules with air quotes around them, are left, I would

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