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I wanted to post this first on the message boards because so many of you have been so helpful, supportive and good friends since the launch of the message boards and I felt you all deserved to hear it first. For a long time, Royal Caribbean Blog readers and podcast listeners have asked me one question, "How can I help the site?" Certainly contributing content, spreading the word about the blog and checking the blog and podcast out daily is a great way to help and I value all of that assistance. In fact, I cannot express how much that helps in the long run. I've also been thinking about how to improve the site for everyone and it comes back to a dream I have for the blog. My dream is simple: Produce interesting and helpful Royal Caribbean content consistently that people want to read and share. And I would love to do it much more than I currently am able to do it. To that end, I have lots of ideas for new exciting and informative information for this site but I need your help. For better or worse, my ideas require financial backing to become a reality and there is only so much I can do with the way the site is now. I also want to avoid, if at all possible, plastering the site with ads. Therefore, I have created the Royal Caribbean Blog Insiders, a brand new exclusive group that can make Royal Caribbean Blog possible. Through your financial support, we can grow this blog even more and continue to offer the kind of fun and helpful content I think so many of you have come to expect. This is a purely voluntary action to take and I know how tough things are for everyone these days. If it's not in the cards right now to help out financially, keep doing what you're doing here on the message boards and on blog's comments and in social media. But if you can, there are a number of contribution levels you can join at and along with your assistance, there are some fun rewards for being a member of the Royal Caribbean Blog Insiders. Becoming a member of the Royal Caribbean Blog Insiders is completely up to you and you can cancel at any time. No questions asked! Take a look and consider if becoming an Insider is right for you: https://www.patreon.com/RoyalCaribbeanBlog No matter what, I want to emphasize that I consider all of you my friends and I thank you for everything you have done and for being active here on the site. Matt

So, I'm wondering, when the new itineraries/deployments are officially announced by RCCL, how soon afterwards do you @Matt announce a group cruise? I'm wanting to pounce as soon as the deployments are announced, but at the same time don't want to shoot myself in the foot by not getting on board ?with a future group cruise.