Welcome to the Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast, you're a week to look into the world of Royal Caribbean Cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hatchberg, and this is episode number 5006.

When should you book all those extras for your Royal Caribbean Cruise?

So I wanted to share with you when you should buy those drink packages, Wi-Fi, and tours.

Here we go.

Everyone's always looking to figure out how to save money, and of course, when's the best time to buy popular add-ons on a Royal Caribbean cruise. I probably get so many questions. I

definitely get so many questions about drink packages, especially dining, internet, and shore

excursions because they're the way to really enhance your cruise vacation. While you can certainly

go on a roll-combing cruise and never spend an extra dollar on it, I think that most people, and by

most, I think a vast majority, do indulge in some sort of add-on package, whether it is a drug package

or the internet or short excursions. They're just part of the cruise experience for a lot of people, right?

Certainly, there's a lot of choices when you go on a cruise and how to spend that money.

But I wanted to talk about when you should buy these things to save the most amount of money.

And these are generalizations based on primarily, you know, when's likely to save you the most

amount of money.

There's always going to be exceptions and, you know, even when I talk about, you know, when's likely to save you the most amount of money. There's always

going to be exceptions and, you know, even when I talk about, you know, before the cruise or after

the cruise or whatever, there can be variations in pricing and whatnot. But I wanted to give you

all kind of a baseline of what to expect and when is the best I'm going to book these things.

And really, for most of these

add-ons, it's really going to be before the cruise begins. There's a couple of really good

reasons why you always want to buy almost all these things before the cruise. Number one is,

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