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

I'm your host Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 381.

After almost eight months, the cruise industry has an opportunity to maybe be able to restart operations

thanks to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Conditional Sale Order.

And today, we're going to break down everything that you need to know about the conditional

sale order up next.

We're taking a break from the cruise stories this week to get back to the real world a little

bit and talk about what's going on in the cruise industry

because a lot has happened, believe it or not in the world of cruising, not just real

craving, but really everything. And to help me break down what is going on, I brought on my very

good friend, Ashley Cushulik, who is the chief content creator, writer, all around great person

from Cruise.Blog. Ashley, welcome to the

Royal Community Blog podcast. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. And, you know, there's so much happening.

We've been here on the Real Combing Blog podcast because so little had been happening in cruising

in terms of, you know, obviously Royal Caribbean Cruises. We've been looking back at past cruise stores for the last couple of months, actually.

But I felt like this week would be a good opportunity to kind of jump back in and talk about

what the, one of the major things that's happened here in really the last like seven or eight months,

which is the CDC's conditional sale order, which replaced the no sale order at the end of October.

And there's a lot that was put in.

I mean, this is a really interesting and either sometimes very, very good and sometimes

kind of almost scary type of legislation.

What's your thought on the, looking at it holistically, the conditional sale order?

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