{"id":2173871,"date":"2025-11-23T21:44:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2173871"},"modified":"2025-11-23T21:44:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T21:44:29","slug":"royal-caribbean-news-round-up-november-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royal-caribbean-news-round-up-november-23-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Caribbean News Round-up: November 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It&#8217;s Sunday and it&#8217;s almost Thanksgiving, but before you sit down with the family to give thanks for all the great cruises you took this year, I wanted to share this week&#8217;s Royal Caribbean news with you.<\/p>\n<p>A number of Royal Caribbean cruise ships <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2025\/11\/20\/royal-caribbean-has-closed-waterslides-across-multiple-cruise-ships-reportedly-conduct\">closed their waterslides<\/a> at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not unusual for any ship to conduct maintenance, but having a few ships with closed slides at the same time is interesting timing.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the work being done is the same on each: replacing see-through parts of the slide with new sections.<\/p>\n<h2>Royal Caribbean News<\/h2>\n<h2>New Video: Things to NEVER Do in Your Cabin on a Cruise<\/h2>\n<p>Have you subscribed to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/royalcaribbeanblog\">Royal Caribbean Blog YouTube Channel<\/a>? We share some great videos there regularly, all about taking a Royal Caribbean cruise! This week, we are sharing our latest video\u2014<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FiKQPOS90MY\">Things to NEVER Do in Your Cabin on a Cruise<\/a>\u2014and don\u2019t forget to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=royalcaribbeanblog\">subscribe here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Family of man booted from Royal Caribbean cruise for alleged assault continue vacation without him<\/h2>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2025\/11\/18\/man-reportedly-kicked-royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-and-family-sailed-without-him\">passenger was kicked off a cruise ship<\/a>, but his family decided to continue the cruise without him.<\/p>\n<p>Reports claim Royal Caribbean kicked off a man in Australia after he allegedly beat up another man just four days into the sailing.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, the man&#8217;s family decided to stay onboard and continue the 10-night voyage without him.<\/p>\n<h2>After 100 cruises, there are 5 ships that I&#8217;ll always revisit<\/h2>\n<p>Matt just took his 100th cruise with Royal Caribbean, and he has <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2025\/11\/17\/best-royal-caribbean-ships-to-sail-frequent-cruiser\">five ships he&#8217;ll gladly go on every time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While there isn&#8217;t a bad Royal Caribbean ship, there are a few that stand out as top favorites.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re going on your first cruise or looking to get on every ship too, these are the five Royal Caribbean ships Matt highly recommends.<\/p>\n<h2>Biggest packing regrets from cruisers<\/h2>\n<p>We asked cruisers what&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2025\/11\/19\/biggest-packing-regret-on-my-cruise\">one thing they brought on a cruise but regretted<\/a> packing it.<\/p>\n<p>Over 200 comments were shared with things that seemed like a good idea to bring, but ended up being either useless, redundant, or unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this your warning of what not to waste your energy bringing along when you sail.<\/p>\n<h2>Diamond tips and etiquette to avoid becoming a problem and enjoy the loyalty perks<\/h2>\n<p>Making it to Diamond level is a big deal, but <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/2025\/11\/21\/royal-caribbean-diamond-tips-etiquette-benefits\">there are lots of unwritten rules you should know<\/a> about it.<\/p>\n<p>A surge in cruise demand has seemingly pushed a lot more people to make to this upper Crown and Anchor Society tier, and it adds a lot of great benefits.<\/p>\n<p>However, you&#8217;ll want to be aware of how to best utilize your Diamond status to avoid problems later.<\/p>\n<h2>Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast<\/h2>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/podcast\/episode-550-how-and-why-plan-cruise-2-years-advance\">584th episode<\/a> of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/podcast\">Royal Caribbean Blog Podcast<\/a> is now available at all our links.<\/p>\n<p>Of all the cruise topics Matt is asked about, a few are hot button issues he can&#8217;t help but not rant about every single time.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to subscribe via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLbiBuw681g0in7dqolek3KHS8R_nlEkj-\">YouTube<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rcl-blog-podcast\/id685427740\">iTunes<\/a> or <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.royalcaribbeanblog.com\/showfeed.xml\">RSS<\/a>, and head over to rate and review the podcast on iTunes if you can! We\u2019d appreciate it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalcaribbeanblog.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Sunday and it&#8217;s almost Thanksgiving, but before you sit down with the family to give thanks for all the great cruises you took this year, I wanted to share this week&#8217;s Royal Caribbean news with you. A number of Royal Caribbean cruise ships closed their waterslides at the same time. 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