Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog podcast, a weekly look into the world of Royal Caribbean cruising.

I'm your house Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 298.

Have you ever thought of making the jump to a sweet stateroom for your next Royal Caribbean cruise?

Sweets do come with a higher price tag, but they also have their own set of perks and benefits that may factor into that decision.

I'm sharing a few things on this

episode that you might want to know when you start to consider if the increased price is quote

unquote worth it. Here we go. When I first started cruising, I'm pretty sure we never thought

that we would stay in anything more than maybe a balcony room.

To us at that point in our lives, budget-wise, it just was, a suite was just something that

was kind of, you know, it was almost funny to think about.

In the same way that you laugh when you talk about things you'll do after you win the lottery,

booking a suite was kind of in that sort of thought because we just assumed that a sweet stateroom

on a Royal Cremant cruise would just be so inherently more expensive and out of our price range that it just wouldn't make any sense.

For many years, even after I started Royal CaribbeanBlog.com, we never stayed in a suite.

You know, suites are something that I think a lot of people look at in that regard, especially when they first start cruising.

But as we cruise more and more, and we started kind of understanding the pricing nuances of cruises, and also, I think part of it was that our, you know, we started earning more money from our day jobs and were able to be a little more affluent in terms of what we were able to do,

I feel like sweets started entering the equation into what we can book.

And at the end of the day, and what I talked about at the very beginning of this episode,

is that sweets are a splurge, and they can be a somewhat expensive splurge.

I mean, at the end of the day, you're going to be paying more for a suite than you will be for a balcony room, that you'll be more than a from an inside and an ocean view room. I mean, it's just sweets are of that nature. But it doesn't mean that sweets have to be inherently prohibitively expensive beyond where, you know, normal people can't afford it. We're not talking about, you know, affording Lamborghinies or buying a mansion here.

We're talking about a almost, I like to think, more like a first class experience on an airplane,

where, you know, in a lot of cases, the upgrade cost between first class and economy, it's not

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