Welcome to the Royal Crimean blog podcast. You're weekly looking to the world of Royal Crimean cruising.

I'm your host, Matt Hodgebergberg and this is episode of 4004.

How much of an issue is it if you go from a big Royal Crime cruise ship to a smaller one?

Today I wanted to talk about this because it comes up quite a bit. Here we go.

Now, as you all probably already know, I get a lot of the same questions over and over again.

And I really don't mind that because I know the answer.

But on today's episode, I wanted to talk about a question I get a lot.

Not like, it's not necessarily in the top 10, but definitely a question I get a lot from people who are new to Royal Caribbean.

Not that they haven't gone before, but they've gone on a cruise or two.

And now they're thinking about going on a smaller ship.

Typically, a lot of new people to Royal Caribbean or people that are just new to cruising in general,

start off on big ships.

In fact, when people ask me, what is the best ship to go on if you're brand new to cruising?

I always sell them, seven-night cruise on an oasis or quantum-class ship. I think it's the best of what RealCripping has to offer. There's a good mix of sea days and port days,

and it's just a good option because you don't know what you don't know and you don't yet have

a sense of what cruising is about. So why not go on a ship that offers the most good length of an itinerary, right, seven nights, you're not on

and off the ship in two seconds, or it feels that way on a three-night cruise, and you're not there

for, you know, two weeks, which I think would be too long if you're on a longer sailing. Anyway,

so by my own advice, I tell people to go on an oasis or quantum class ship, which is or are, are rather the biggest cruise ships in the world. So what is it like if you're going on a smaller ship?

And this is a major concern, especially among families,

people that have kids who are definitely younger than 18 who are going on a cruise

because they really have a concern and issue that they may be simply bored.

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