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Cruising.

I'm your house Matt Hotschberg, and this is episode number 300.

One of the most common questions someone new to Royal Caribbean has is how good is a certain

Royal Caribbean ship?

Or if a certain ship is too old, new, boring, outdated, or flashy these days?

Or better yet, I question along the lines of,

I read a lot of negative reviews about Blank of the Seas.

So, should I not go on it?

I wanted to try to tackle this common concern

and explain why the answer is to question the original inquiry.

Here we go.

I've been wanting to do an episode about this topic for a long time because I think for a lot of podcast listeners or blog readers or Facebook viewers, there is always that question, especially among first-time cruisers, of, you know, picking the right ship.

And a lot of times we've talked about on this podcast about avoiding pitfalls.

It's a really core premise of this podcast and blog.

It's helping everybody have a better cruise, right? That's what I've always said since day one of Royal CreamBlog.com of helping people have a better cruise.

And, you know, that or do this instead of that, those kind of answers.

And so it's not unsurprising to me that some people may take that to the point of saying,

is there a better ship than another?

Is this ship a mistake?

You know, researching the ship.

And the ship itself, when we're talking about which Royal Cripp ship to go on, I always try to give the ship. And the ship itself, when we're talking about which royal

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