[00:00:00] Speaker A: And I really felt like that was like a major difference is just seeing how the people working for Holland America were so different. They did a great job, don't get me wrong, but they just were not at the end of a Disney cruise. You know people's names. I could not have told you anybody's names, but I could tell you they all had that. I had a great time with them for the week.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: Welcome back everybody to this week's episode of the DCL Duo podcast. Brought to you by my Path Unwinding Travel. And Sam, do your jingle.
[00:00:44] Speaker C: Yes, simply the best.
Better than all the rest.
[00:00:49] Speaker B: There it is. There's the jingle. The review jingle.
[00:00:51] Speaker D: That's right.
[00:00:52] Speaker B: We have another five star review to read on the air this week and I will once again apologize. I have sort of lost track. So if I'm reading a review we've already read, too bad.
[00:01:00] Speaker C: You're welcome.
[00:01:00] Speaker B: All right, here we go.
[00:01:01] Speaker C: Here we go.
[00:01:01] Speaker B: Here we go. This review comes from CNS B. Although the reviewer signed their review Charlie Brown. So great, great name.
[00:01:11] Speaker A: I love Charlie Brown.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: So there we go, Charlie Brown. And it reads great podcast. Best review ever. 432 Lookout Key. What an amazing review. To take the time to walk the island explaining step every step, explaining every step of the way I think is what they're trying to say. No lunch break to give an in depth view of the island. While it sounded like Disney isn't 100% ready, I am ready to check it out. Brian did a marvelous job painting the picture of the island. Can't wait to hear your review after you're able to relax, Charlie Brown. So thank you for that review. Finally, Sam, a review.
[00:01:40] Speaker C: I know about you.
[00:01:41] Speaker A: About me.
[00:01:42] Speaker B: I feel so proud. So if I read this one twice, it's only because you know it's about me. So there you go.
[00:01:49] Speaker C: I gotta tell you, Brian, as soon as you started talking and like reading the review, I was like, oh yes, a review about Brian. Because I wasn't even on that episode. I wasn't even on that cruise. I didn't get to look out and tell like a week later. So. But I'm okay with that.
[00:02:03] Speaker B: You know, the producer just gets the credits at the end and that's, that's all that's needed. So there you go. But thank you for leaving that review, Charlie Brown and really appreciate it. It was a fun review to give and I did put a lot of effort into that one. So appreciate the recognition there with that. Just for everyone out there listening, you know, remember the best way and the easiest way to help support our show beyond supporting our sponsors like My Path Unwinding Travel and WDW magazine for our live and bonus shows is to head over to Apple Podcasts. Hit those five stars, leave us a written review. We will read it on the air at the top of one of our main episodes. Head over there. Please do that. It helps us out a lot with that.
[00:02:38] Speaker C: Another way though, to help our show is to become a Patreon.
And we are joined by some Patreon members today.
First time on the show but listening for quite some time now, I believe, is Sonja and Russell. Welcome to the show, guys.
[00:02:58] Speaker A: Thank you so much. Happy to be here.
[00:03:00] Speaker C: Yeah, we're so happy to have you. Now we got to talk about your cruising background. You guys have now five cruises under your belt, I believe, four of which are on dcl. So getting close to gold there. But we got to rewind and say what started the love from with Disney? Like, where did that come from? We'll start with Sonya.
[00:03:24] Speaker E: I've always loved Disney World, always loved them. In our family, it was like when you were five, you went, so I've been as a kid Disney World twice, Disneyland once, and then we have a blended family. So right after Covid, we decided to take the kids off for one big Disney trip. And then I think shortly after that was when the Disney wish came out.
[00:03:46] Speaker C: Oh, yeah, yeah, 2022. Was that.
[00:03:49] Speaker E: Yeah, yeah.
So our first Disney Cruise is 2023 and Russell's a huge Star wars fan. And then especially after everything at Hollywood Studios and then, you know, you saw the buildup for the Hyperspace Lounge. I was like, look, let's just go, just me and you. We'll leave the kids at home. So we did.
[00:04:11] Speaker A: Because our kids are old enough to be left alone. I just want to put that caveat in there.
We're not abandoning our children.
[00:04:19] Speaker C: You don't have like preschool or elementary age kids here.
[00:04:25] Speaker A: Love go.
[00:04:27] Speaker C: I love that. Now, Russell, tell us, where does your Disney love come from and what's your Disney background?
[00:04:34] Speaker A: So my Disney background, first of all, and this is the caveat, I'm a pop culture nut. So I collect music, I collect movies, I collect comic books. And so I've always been a big fan of like the Disney ish products, Star Wars, Marvel, that kind of thing. Because when I was young we, this is in the 70s, that was the first time I ever went to Disney. And we drove from North Carolina to Florida in a bright orange Pinto with no air conditioning. And I would never. The Trip was way more than Disney ever could possibly be.
That was like my first big introduction to Disney. And then when sue and I started dating, she's like, do you like Disney? I'm like, well, I like you. And so I like Disney.
[00:05:24] Speaker E: And.
[00:05:25] Speaker A: But he really said, no, we're going to do some cool stuff. So we started doing Disney stuff. And I'm like, okay, I can go with this. I can love Disney. It's fine. It's not.
I always grew up. Well, as a kid's thing. No, it's not really a kid's thing anymore. Now it's more for everybody. So that's why I really love Disney.
[00:05:44] Speaker C: Yeah. Oh, I love that. Yeah. And I got to say, I'm imagining you in the Pinto in the backseat with dialing the window in order to open it, and I'm doing the motion.
Those watching on video.
Yeah.
[00:05:59] Speaker A: No car seats for children whatsoever.
[00:06:02] Speaker C: That's right. You were lucky if you had a seat belt.
[00:06:05] Speaker A: Exactly.
[00:06:06] Speaker B: The only thing that makes that story better, if it's in a station wagon and you're sitting in the rear seats.
[00:06:11] Speaker A: Looking out of the bag, maybe with.
[00:06:13] Speaker B: A little of the vacation music playing in the background, you know, I love it.
[00:06:18] Speaker C: I love it. Well, I gotta say, I do think, like, I like that you called it Disney. Ish. Because obviously Star wars and Marvel are all a part of Disney now, but they didn't used to be. They used to be their own brands, completely separate. And Marvel still has some separation because of the whole Sony partnership and all of that. But yeah, it's interesting. I mean, we used to joke. I remember when the movie Anastasia came out in, I think it was the early 90s and people thought it was a Disney movie and it wasn't. And guess what? Now it actually is a Disney movie.
[00:06:55] Speaker A: Because they bought it. You're exactly right.
[00:06:57] Speaker C: Yeah. So lots of stuff has sort of became a Disney movie. Well, you guys, you decided to venture outside the Disney bubble for this cruise to Alaska that we're going to be talking about today. You went on Holland America line. And I got to start with the question, why Holland America and why not Disney for this cruise?
[00:07:21] Speaker E: So I listened to some episodes about Alaska with Disney and it is quite pricey.
And so we brought table kids with us. My parents wanted to go with us to Alaska and they know that they're not going to pay for Disney. And I figured since it was, you know, port intensive and also Holland America, I believe they were the first cruise line to go to Alaska. And because this trip was supposed to go to Glacier Bay when I booked and supposed to. And we got it so early that I think I booked this in 2023 at the end and we were able to get, it's called the have it all package and it comes with the elite drink package, all gratuities, $100 short scription credit, specialty dinner and wi fi. And I think the total was like $4,000.
Wow.
[00:08:22] Speaker C: Yeah, that's a great, I mean that's a great price for an all inclusive. I take it this was a week long cruise. Typical. Yeah.
Yeah. Well and, and I got to say, you know, Holland America, their, their US branch is based here in the Seattle area. They do Alaska as their, I would say it's sort of the, the creme de la creme of Holland America's cruising is Alaska cruises. So I don't think you can go wrong.
I know this is hard for, you know, hearing from me. I don't think you can go wrong by booking on Holland Princess Norwegian, you know, booking outside of Disney for Alaska because it like you said it is port intensive. Disney is charging a premium. I'm not saying I'm necessarily venturing outside of Disney, but I just, I don't think you can make a mistake by doing that. Let's talk about some of the differences between like the booking like you, how far you said 2023, you were booking for a 2025 cruise. So I mean that's the start of a difference, right? You could book two plus years in advance.
[00:09:33] Speaker E: And just like what I do at Disney, I booked with a travel agent. So I mean that part was pretty similar. Unlike Disney, like the excursions and things like that you can't like you pay for ahead of time. So as I booked I either use that shore credit or you just have to pay it upfront. But I think it was very similar.
Think the only problem, like I don't, I think that Disney's website is actually better for booking those pre cruise activities that you can.
[00:10:06] Speaker C: Oh, interesting. Yeah. Well, and, and unlike Disney, you don't have a specific date that you can start booking activities like you book as they populate into the app or to the website. And, and it's one of those things where as you said you, you do prepay for all of these things. So like if you cancel something, cancel an excursion or you know, dining or you know one of these add ons but you have to wait for it to get refunded from your credit card because you've already paid for it. So we've, we've had the same experience with, with Royal. It's the same kind of setup, you paying as you're booking things. Now, did you notice things going on sale at different times leading up to the cruise or.
[00:10:46] Speaker E: No, no, it's not like Royal has that. I don't know if it's surge pricing or what, but when we want on Royal, I keep a spreadsheet of like this at this time and like if something else popped up, see if it was. And that kind of annoying to me. But everything stayed the same.
I think I saw like some short excursions would book up quicker than. Than others and that's about it.
[00:11:11] Speaker A: And one thing I want to note is when Sunny was doing this, she was doing it all on the website, the Holland America app. I'm going to say this and it's going to sound rude, but I don't mean it rude. The app is pretty much useless until the day you are getting the boat. The website is where you want to do everything until the day of your cruise. And that's a little bit different than we're used to because with the DCL app, like I'm on there constantly before the cruise and I'm looking at stuff and reading through stuff that just does not exist on their app until the day of the cruise.
[00:11:49] Speaker C: Right, right. And then when you get on it populates with all the activities and all of that. Right. So. But yeah, and I think that's a lot of the cruise lines their app is more focused for on the cruise. Disney's might be the outlier in that. I'm not saying, I mean you can book on. I know Virgin's app. There's some stuff you can book in the app, but like the interface is generally easier on the website than it is on the app, with the exception of Disney. And I'd say they're pretty. They're both. They're pretty similar with Disney. Either as you know, either is just as easy as the other. Well, let's talk about travel. Where are you guys coming from? And you said you were sailing out of Vancouver, so we did.
[00:12:27] Speaker A: We came from North Carolina, Raleigh, North Carolina. And we actually, we flew into Seattle four days before our trip because we had never been to the west coast together. We'd always been west coast, but separately. So we're like, well, let's make this a pretty interesting trip. So we went to Seattle for two days and we toured around the city and looked at different things and had a good time there.
We then went to Vancouver and we went to Vancouver by train. So we took the train up the west coast and it was really nice to do that. Number one, we didn't. When we hit the border between the United States and Canada, we really didn't have to do anything except have our passports out and just they walked by and said thank you, and that was it. We were good that way. Then we spent two days in Vancouver. Sandy mentioned her parents went on the cruise with us. It was her mother's 70th birthday when we were in Vancouver, so we were.
We all went out to eat. We also had another couple that are friends of ours that went with us, and we met them in Vancouver and spent the days with them. So that was really nice. We had a good time hiking around and separate podcasts highly recommend anybody going to Vancouver. Very fun city. And then we stayed in the Pan Pacific and it was, I mean, right next to the fort. So when we woke up in the morning, we saw our boat was there. And so it was just really nice to be able to do those activities and see everything and not have to go somewhere else to get on the boat.
[00:13:57] Speaker C: Yeah, absolutely. Well, and you didn't even have to rent a car or anything because you're one right there at the port. Two, you can take public transportation or Ubers throughout the city of Vancouver. It's pretty easy to get around. I mean, there's some free shuttles. If you're staying near Canada Place, which is where the Pan Pacific is, you can take free shuttles to the Capilano suspension bridge or to Grouse Mountain. And so there's lots of stuff that you can get to pretty easily, I think, from there. Well, let's. Let's talk about embarkation Day.
How easy was it to get your luggage loaded onto the ship?
I'm imagining Holland does like Disney and that they pick it up or no.
[00:14:36] Speaker E: Yeah. So we were able. When we checked in at the bell, they asked if we're taking a cruise. Yes. And they gave us a little information sheet. And it was. You called them up, they came up and they took your bags. You give them a tip.
[00:14:50] Speaker A: And then we didn't see him anymore. Now because we worry all the time, quote, I worry all the time. We have air tags in our luggage. So when we're on the boat, I'm looking and saying, okay, is our luggage with us yet? And it finally was with us, and it really got on the boat quick. And we were very surprised by it.
[00:15:14] Speaker E: Owen, does their port arrival time very different?
They want you to get there at 12. There is no, like, this group you have this time, you just check in online like months before and they give you a boarding pass about a week before. And it just says come at 12.
[00:15:31] Speaker C: So everyone.
[00:15:33] Speaker E: Yeah, I was really surprised. So, you know, like we went down through the garage into the port and you know, they just had this. Because the thing they're in the Princess Ship there at the same time. So they really did a good job of kind of like walking you through. And then something that impressed us was there wasn't anybody at the, like the vip. So then the VIP check in people. So they just had us go. You know, they just let. So we didn't have to wait longer. We could go with the fancy people and then. But it was pretty.
[00:16:07] Speaker A: But it was, it was very quick. I was very like, I've always considered. So we've done Royal Caribbean, we've done Carnival, we've done. Disney is where we go with the most. And I've always been amazed at how quick Disney can get people on there.
But Holland America was the exact same way. They were pulling out all stops to make sure we're not going to have a backup of people because they obviously knew we said come at 12. There could be 2,000 people, there could be three people. We don't know. So they just make sure everybody was going constantly.
[00:16:42] Speaker E: And I think we even got there a little bit early. My parents and our friends met us since we were the only ones staying at the Pan Pacific, so. And like you didn't have to, they let you go through anyway. And by the time when we got on, all the rooms were ready.
[00:16:56] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:16:57] Speaker C: That's really nice. That, like. So you, you're. If you're showing up at noon, you're on by what, like 12:30 and your rooms are ready. That's. Yeah. That's fantastic. Well, and that's, that's good. I mean, if they're having you come a little bit later than Disney maybe has you come, but everybody's room is ready. That's. Yeah, I mean, I'll take that trade off. Right. Like, because you can go right to your room and drop your stuff off rather than carrying it. I gotta ask, what was the name of the ship that you were on with Holland and then what were your impressions when you walked on the ship? Obviously you don't have your family name announced. It's a little bit different. It's not, you know, the fanfare that Disney does, but what was that like walking onto a Holland ship for the first time?
[00:17:38] Speaker E: So we were on the Konings Dam and that Ship is one of their newer. Like it's the oldest of their newest classic ship, if that makes sense. To be honest, the entrance wasn't memorable because I don't really remember it.
[00:17:51] Speaker A: They do not have an atrium. They did not have anything like that. So when we walked on it, basically we were walking into restaurants and it really was like our friends who were with us, they had never been on a cruise ship and they're like, what do we expect? I'm like, oh, they're going to do this and they're going to do that. And none of that occurred. You know, it was all stuff from Disney, of course. And so I was, I was talking to Sonya later and I was like, well, we got on quick, but we're on.
That was basically it. It's like, okay, we passed all the checkpoints, we're good.
[00:18:28] Speaker C: Yeah, it's definitely a different experience. You know, we've seen the Koenigsdam I don't know how many times. Like tons of times. Like every, I feel like every time we're in San Diego for a Disney cruise, the Koenig's Dam is. Is there. I don't know if it's the same day or the day before, the day after. Right. Like we always. Or, well, it must be the day before, right. Like, but either day before or the same day, I feel like we're always seeing that ship. But we've seen that ship, I don't know, at least a half dozen times every time we're in San Diego. I feel like it. But yeah, she looks like a nice ship. What did. Did you guys think of the amenities on the ship? Obviously we're probably not talking about themed in the same way as Disney's themed. But, but what did you, you know, what did you think about the decor, the layout and, and sort of what was actually offered on the ship itself?
[00:19:17] Speaker E: It was very, I guess, classical. Kind of like more like the Fantasy than any other ship that we've been on. You know, Fantasy had. Has that kind of old world charm to it. It is music themed. So like we were on the fourth deck and that was the Beethoven deck and they had a lot of cool, like music themed art. But it was just very clean, not really flashy.
[00:19:43] Speaker A: It definitely was not flashy. And you could have taken, truthfully, you could have taken the name Holland off of it and put any other thing. There was nothing there that told me I was on a Holland America tour cruise. Sh it all. It just was like your basic cruise ship. There was nothing really that stood out Like Sonia said, I mean it was just. I don't like to use the word basic, but that's the only thing I can. There's nothing that choked me. I'm on Holland America unless I went in the store and saw a Holland America hat.
[00:20:15] Speaker E: Oh, it's very, very nice, but very nice.
[00:20:19] Speaker A: Not bad.
[00:20:19] Speaker E: You could tell it was like a top, like a higher tier shift because I think it's under the Carnival Corporation.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: And.
[00:20:27] Speaker E: And so I think it's like their luxury brand.
[00:20:30] Speaker C: Absolutely, yeah. I mean Carnival Corporation owns several cruise lines and Carnival Line is their budget line. Right. But like their other lines are more mid or luxury level, I would say. And so what was your impression of.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: The demographics on the ship? Were there families with kids?
Was it mostly adults? Yeah. What was that like?
[00:20:56] Speaker A: So I'm going to say, and correct me if I'm wrong. So, yeah, I would say at the Most there were 20 children of this cruise ship. There was 3,000 people, 20 children. The majority. We, we had this very conversation sitting on the boat. I would say the ages, probably 80% was 50 years and above.
[00:21:15] Speaker E: I think 60 years and above.
[00:21:17] Speaker A: 60 years and above, yeah. Yeah. And it was very, I mean it was just the way it was laid out. And because of that, it's very interesting you say that, Brian, because, because of that demographic, I am convinced that the way the ship was was because, yes, it was an older cruising group. So there really wasn't that much to too flashy because I think they knew when, when the hours were, when what people were going to do. Now with that being said, it was not stale and it was not mothballs. There was still a lot to do, but it really was an older crowd and we had to mentally adjust to that while we were cruising because we had never seen that before. Like every once in a while I would see like a teenager somewhere and they looked absolutely bored beyond belief. I mean, frankly, I hate to say it, but they did and their parents were with them. And like it reminded me of when I was 17 years old and was going first of my parents that to see like some architecture thing. And you would just sit there and be like, why am I here? I don't want to be here. And it's like I just looked at these kids and I was like, you really don't want to be here, but you're going to talk about this forever.
[00:22:31] Speaker C: Yeah, well, and it's a, you know, it's, I'm assuming, correct me if I'm wrong, no climbing wall, no go karts, no flow Rider, no water slides. Right. You gotta. There's a pool. There might even be two pools. But there it's. They don't have these active things that teens or older kids would be interested in doing on the ship itself.
[00:22:51] Speaker A: Correct. I mean there's not even like I went searching at one time for like an arcade just to play like a video game. No arcade.
The other thing that really amazed me was no sports bar.
[00:23:03] Speaker C: Oh, interesting. I didn't even think about that. Like, I kind of assume that other cruise lines have at least a sports bar. So if there's like a big game happening, you'd have some place to go watch and maybe order some chicken wings or something.
[00:23:17] Speaker A: And that's a thing obviously college football. So you know, a few people were looking for that. And we went, me and the buddy we were with, we went looking and we're like. I'm like, dude, this, this is where it should be and it's not here. And I was like. And he's like, so do these cruise ships have sports cars? I'm like, yes, yes. I could take you to a dozen right now. I'm like, but this one doesn't. And it was very odd.
I was very surprised by that.
[00:23:46] Speaker C: What about the evening entertainment? As you mentioned, an older crowd. So it's. And it's Alaska cruise, which is a more active cruise. So people are in general not staying up super late like they might in the Caribbean. But what was the nightlife or an entertainment like in the evenings?
[00:24:03] Speaker E: So the big thing for Holland America, they have something called the Music Walk. And so they had one venue and it was called Billboard and there were dueling pianos. And then like right across was Rolling Stone and it was like rock and roll.
And then like a little bit down the hall was B.B. king Blues Lounge. And so the music was really good and they kind of like just ping pong back and forth. You know, there was the dueling pianos going on with like Billy Joel, Elton John, the Rolling Stones. It was like Beatles, more rock and roll stuff like what we call classic rock. But I think what we listened to the president of classic rock.
So there wasn't really like any.
I didn't really hear anything from the 90s.
[00:24:54] Speaker C: So it was like 80s, 60s, 70s. 80s, yeah.
[00:24:58] Speaker A: So you would have that, that would start probably about 9, 9:30 ship's time. Before that they did have a flat stage theater and it was really nice. And before that they would have like during, during the day. That's where in. This is something you don't have on Disney Cruises during the day they would have lectures about different things in Alaska and different animals and why did the Iditarod start and things like that. And so we would go to a few of those and they were interesting but you know, once again they knew their audience. So this is why they have it. At night on the stage area they would have like one night, I think the first night they had a John Denver singer and then another night they had a comedy magician. Another night they had a dance company. So they would always have something. You know, basically this is for the last till 9 o' clock. And so some people would go to bed after that, then some people would stay up and surprisingly a lot of people would stay up for like the rock music and stuff because we would go there and it would be packed every night and like Sonia said, one area would quit playing and say we'll be back at 30. The other area would start playing at that point. So you can get up and move there or it was so close you really could stay in one place and hear everything if you wanted to.
[00:26:20] Speaker E: These are very active seniors, I'll have to say that. I mean people were dancing every night on the dance floor. I mean it was just. It's kind of really fun and like. So on our cruise, I don't know if it's because it was like late September, but it was mostly Europeans and Australians, Bond art ship. But I mean they just had like. And like I did too. Like it was like fun.
[00:26:46] Speaker C: Yeah, it was a lively, an older crowd but a lively older crowd. Not a asleep in their chairs older crowd. Yeah, I like that. What about casino? I've got. I always have to ask because you know on, on obviously all the other cruise lines have casinos.
Did they? Was it a big casino, a small casino? Was that packed?
[00:27:09] Speaker A: Well, I would say it was a medium sized casino. I've seen like. I'm not going to try to compare it to one of the big, big ships and of course Disney doesn't have a casino but I would say it was a medium casino. It was two floors and it would get busy. Normally if we were at sea in the afternoons it would get busy, in the evenings it would be somewhat busy.
We went a little bit. I stay out casinos because I don't gamble a lot and I'm an ex smoker and so casinos seem to attract.
They allow that. So. But it was.
I wouldn't say there was ever a lot of people in the casinos.
[00:27:49] Speaker E: Not really.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: Like it wasn't there were people in there but at the same Time I saw a lot of tables that were empty and a lot of people just standing around like, well, not even, you know, on the job, like, don't have anything to do. And it just seemed like, yeah, the people that were interested in that went to that. But it wasn't the whole boat.
[00:28:07] Speaker B: What about, what about food on board? It's a big part of cruising. How was the food? Did you experience some of the main dining? And I don't know how Holland does the. The specialty restaurants.
[00:28:16] Speaker E: So we did main dining. And another feature of Holland America is they have a global fresh fish program. So if you like seafood, it's a good place.
And they would source local fish at each port.
So they had like salmon one night, halibut another night. It's pretty good. You could get. I don't think Disney has add ons, but some other cruise lines do, like at main dining. But Morimoto, the Iron Chef, he had some dishes there and he has a sushi restaurant there.
[00:28:48] Speaker C: I need to go on this restaurant on this trip because I love Chef Morimoto. I'm a huge fan of. Of his ribs are like my favorite ribs and I love all of his food.
[00:28:58] Speaker E: Yeah, well, he had an exo. Was it halibut? Yes, it was phenomenal. And it was like, I think it was a $25 add on. And I'm like, sure, yeah.
[00:29:08] Speaker C: I mean, I love halibut too. So, like, yeah. Oh, all of that.
[00:29:12] Speaker A: Yeah, the food was great. One of the couple of the, like, main places we went to when we were eating, first of all, they had next to the pools, they have poolside burgers, pizza, same thing you see on most cruises. But the really great thing about that is with their app, you can order it and have it delivered to you where you know where you are. So it'll. It really makes it easier to find a place because we didn't get in the pool a lot just because you're in Alaska. And so mentally it's cold and even though it's inside it's heated. It's not.
It is by no means cold still, mentally, we just couldn't figure it out. But the other places they have. That's really nice is they have the Grand Dutch Cafe, which is specialty coffees. And they only have one area, especially coffees. And I always thought that was really weird, but it always had a huge line and part of that was included on our drink package so we could go there and get our specialty coffees. But the line was huge. We had one misstep while we were.
[00:30:17] Speaker E: There they had, you know pilot. Cove Cafe has snacks, right? They had snacks and like you could get a sandwich and so it was another place. And then I guess they're Dutch pastries on there. But there was called like a bocce ball and it's like a baseball sized cream puff covered in chocolate. So that was their big thing and then like a huge apple pie. But I would say that that would be like Cove Cafe on there was on there. And then their buffet just like the wish you're served. So that was nice too.
[00:30:49] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:30:50] Speaker C: Yeah. What was the food? Was the food qual good in the buffet?
[00:30:54] Speaker E: I thought so.
[00:30:55] Speaker A: I thought it was really good.
Yeah, it was. Now it. The whole thing about the buffet was it was really spread out. So you like most of them, we learn through cruising, go to the back end and work your way forward just because then you can see everything.
But it was very spread out. The food, the buffet food was good. It was. I mean I loved getting.
One of the things I always do for breakfast is I get a big bowl of fruit and then I get my proteins and everything was really nice. It was nothing like I think that I bit into. It was like, no, not this.
[00:31:32] Speaker E: I will say that there is no soft serve ice cream on this ship.
They have it hard scoops and that was at the buffet and you could get as much. But they also made, you know, they would change every day. So they like there would also be a crepe station. But the best day was the last day when it was cake day. And they had probably like 15 different cakes and they were like the tall. I think I got like a 11 layer chocolate cake that they had short any kind of cake that you could think of. And that was like the day that I wished I didn't eat any lunch and I ate like cake.
[00:32:10] Speaker C: Yeah, yeah, I love that. Was the buffet open like all day? I'm imagining.
Yes. But I don't know.
[00:32:17] Speaker E: I know it would close a little bit between.
I know definitely for sure between lunch and dinner.
[00:32:24] Speaker C: Oh, to change over. But I mean it was. But it was open for breakfast, lunch and dinner and then kind of late into the evening or later into the evening than obviously Disney. Yeah, right.
[00:32:35] Speaker A: Yes, it was. We did go to other dining. We did go to one of the specialty dinings, the Pinnacle Grill.
That was more of their steakhouse and it was good. I would say that the steakhouse and the restaurants on Disney were better than that.
[00:32:52] Speaker E: Palo's better.
[00:32:53] Speaker A: Palo is better.
[00:32:54] Speaker E: Remy is amazing.
So like nothing will ever compare to that.
[00:32:59] Speaker A: But it wasn't that bad. It was like a typical steakhouse. Nothing really stood out about.
[00:33:05] Speaker C: Sounds like from your perspective, the regular food, meaning the included food, was at least on par with Disney' if not better. It sounds like in some areas.
[00:33:16] Speaker E: I would agree with that.
[00:33:17] Speaker A: Yeah, I would, I would definitely say that one, the one advantage Disney always has over us because we're big seafood eaters is the shrimp and the crab legs and that whole setup they have there, which you don't see on any other cruise ship. But with that being said, the food on America was still excellent. It was on the buffet, it was not bad at all. And there was, there was plenty of it and they were recycling it quick and, and there did not appear to be any weight whatsoever on like popular items.
[00:33:50] Speaker E: And something interesting that they did too is we got to Juneau at one, so they did the main dining. It was an express lunch and you could either get fish and chips or like, I think it was soup, right. And that's all they served. So everybody could come in, but like you could get like our friend at both the waiter's like, you want everything. He's like, yes, when we want a beach. And they were like two things, but, well, that's nice.
[00:34:13] Speaker C: I mean, you still have the buffet as an option, but yeah, if you want to get a quick lunch, but a sit down lunch, that's kind, that's a nice option.
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[00:35:40] Speaker E: We got an email about mid 2024 saying that our itinerary changed. I think I had read that the Park Service had went from three passes to two, so I think we were a casualty of that. But some people on the ship were surprised. Like, in the Facebook group, someone said something like, you know, why didn't they tell us? But other people said, well, we got this email and our friends who had booked after us, like, they asked, why didn't you go to Glacier Bay? And we did think about changing it, but we got such a phenomenal deal on it. I was. And I read like, there's still times that it could get canceled. So we did Endicott Arms and Dolls Glacier.
[00:36:24] Speaker C: Nice. Same as us. Same as exact same as us. Well, let's. Let's talk about that. So you, you leave Vancouver, your first quote, unquote port of call is Endicott Arm, Dawes Glacier. Your glacier days at the beginning of the cruise or not or later on?
[00:36:38] Speaker E: Juno was first.
[00:36:39] Speaker C: Oh, okay. You guys did a different. Yeah, a different order. Okay, tell us, let's start with Juno. Then. What did you guys get up to in Juneau?
[00:36:47] Speaker E: So we did the sled dogs and mushers camp, which I think was in the Tagus Forest. So I think you guys went like, on the glacier down below. It's kind of like a golf cart that the dog took. Follow you around.
[00:37:01] Speaker C: And yes, you're. You're on, like a dirt track. You're. You're at their, like a base camp that's not up on the glacier.
So the, the only ones that you can do where you do it on the glaciers, you got to take a helicopter to get there. So. And that's limited and it gets canceled a lot. So a lot of people, I think, choose the excursion that you're talking about in the Tongass Rainforest and, and Disney offers. I'm sure it's the same one. It's probably the same company even where you go to the musher camp and you meet the, the dogs, you meet the puppies, you get, you know, you get to go on A sled, but it's around a track. What did you guys think of that excursion?
[00:37:36] Speaker A: It was good. We, I, we loved it. Number one, I love talking to like these people about, you know, tell me more about what you do. What is the weight? How did, how do you get fed?
And the whole crew there was just outgoing and would sit there and talk to you about like, if we had stayed four hours, I'm pretty sure I could have talked about sled dogs for four hours. It was very, very good. Sony loved it because after we rode, like you mentioned, she got hold the puppies. So she went over and she picked up the puppies and, and like the first one she picked up tried to crawl into her coat because it was, it was raining when we got there. Even though it was raining, it really wasn't that bad because we had expected it.
So that was like wonderful. And the whole thing lasted what, maybe two hours?
[00:38:27] Speaker E: Like two and a half hours.
[00:38:28] Speaker A: Yeah. But that very quickly I chose shorter.
[00:38:32] Speaker E: Excursions for us because I really wanted to explore the area. So we got the first one out and I think we were back in Juneau by 3:30 or 4.
[00:38:44] Speaker C: Oh, sorry, I'm on mute. I was saying you guys got to Juneau at like one so you had still time to walk around after and. Yeah, I think, I mean, I think it kind of depends on what port you're going to and whether or not you want to do that longer excursion or that shorter excursion and how much you want to explore. Right. Like if you want to explore the city of Juneau or the city of, you know, Ketchikan or what, you know, like, you, you've got to have some time. Although Juneau is obviously a lot bigger, the others are quite. All the other ports in Alaska that the cruise ships tend to go to are a lot smaller. But yeah, it's. You want to have some time, I think, to, to walk around the port as well. What was your second port of call in Alaska?
[00:39:24] Speaker E: It was Scanway and we did the White Pass Railroad and they do pick up at the port for Holland America.
[00:39:32] Speaker C: Ah, you were right there. Nice.
[00:39:35] Speaker A: Right. So we went, we got on that and we went up and that was just amazing. I took. So I like have a big camera that I took with us for photographs. I took like probably over a thousand photographs on this trip. I'm still going through them. I got some of the pictures I got from White Pass Railroad. I've showed my friends and they're like, that is amazing. They're like, these photos are incredible. And it was just simply amazing to be on that.
[00:40:03] Speaker C: Yeah. Now did you do like a round trip or did you do a one way, get off and do something else? What was yours?
[00:40:10] Speaker E: We did the round trip. I think that was three hours, three and a half hours. But it's kind of neat because you could see both sides of everything.
[00:40:19] Speaker C: Oh yeah. Because you get to turn around. So then even if you're on one side of the trip. So this is. We made sure that we had Brian and Nathan on one side of the train and me and my mom on the other side of the train so we could at least get pictures from both sides. We learned very quickly. We only went on the heading north. Right. So learned very quickly. You kind of, if you're going north, you want to be on the left hand side. Most of the stuff is on the left hand side. But if you're going south, you probably want to be on the right hand side.
[00:40:47] Speaker B: So.
[00:40:47] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:40:48] Speaker A: The other thing to mention about the train trip is it is cold. The windows do get steamed up. So we were doing a lot of wiping of windows when we were sitting inside. And then when it was time to take pictures, we would walk outside of the train itself. Because you could take pictures from the inside but there's no way you're gonna see everything because of how foggy the windows get.
[00:41:12] Speaker C: Yes. Yeah. And you even, even if it's not foggy, you get a glare off the windows like we had with the sun. So. Cause we were lucky to have warmer weather, but it was still. You got the, this glare from the sun. So you'd have this reflection in your picture that would not be very good through the glass. So yeah, getting out and going on to like sort of the balcony. But I will say if you're going to do that, make sure you've got some kind of strap for your camera that's around your wrist or even for your phone, some kind of strap or even a pop socket. Something like. Because it that train moves and you might drop and lose your electronic device.
[00:41:50] Speaker A: You are 100% correct. The other thing to mention is if you go on this excursion and you go outside to take photos, remember a lot of other people want to take photos.
When you're outside, take your photos and give it to somebody else for a chance. Because there was a lot of people who basically camped outside and we were.
[00:42:09] Speaker C: Like, okay, yes, there's only so much room on that balcony.
[00:42:12] Speaker A: There is exactly.
[00:42:14] Speaker C: Yeah. And you only have one balcony. You have the one sort of at the front of your car. The one behind you is the other.
So is the other cars. Well, let's talk about your next port of call. Or was it. Did you have your Glacier Day or did you have.
[00:42:27] Speaker E: That was our Glacier Day. And they went down. They had a naturalist on board and he gave talks. And you could put it on the channel, the tv, where it showed the bow camera.
And so I got a cabin that on the fourth deck. And I also think I see this on Disney. It's wider because it's on the 4th and. But ours was double wide too, because there was a fire locker and fire equipment between our room and my parents room. So we were able to open that up and we had like a good bit.
[00:43:05] Speaker A: We had a huge balcony.
[00:43:07] Speaker E: So we hung out there for Glacier Day. We could open the door and hear the naturalists talk. And then our friends, they were in an ocean view and she went out, they opened the bow and she said like, she came back. She said, people are getting really aggressive out there. So she came to us. And then not sure if Disney does it, but they kind of stopped on one side so like one side of the ship could see the glacier. And then they just turn, turn, turn, and then they left. And so that was really neat. But my parents said, you know, spending the money for the veranda was worth every penny just for that Glacier Day.
[00:43:43] Speaker C: Yeah. I think unless you're gonna really spend all your time on Glacier Day up on the top deck or you're gonna go and do one of the boat excursions. Right. I mean, I think that the veranda. That I agree. I think the one place a veranda makes the most sense. I'm not saying it doesn't make sense in other places. Some people love a veranda to have coffee in the morning in the Caribbean. That's not me, but I can. But I think for Alaska, it's people. It's the most valuable to have that veranda. All right, well, you had probably one more port of call.
[00:44:15] Speaker E: Yes, we went to Ketchupan and we toured around a lot there. Russell had looked at breweries in Alaska beforehand, so him and his buddy, they went to breweries. I went to, called the Saxman Native Village Dance Performance and Totem Park. And that was really cool.
They took you to the Tlingit village. You went to their lodge, I think it was called, and they did a dance. I was invited to come up and dance with them. That was fun. And then we went to the totem park and they kind of explained each of the different totem poles. And then we got to go inside to where one of the artisans was carving and tell us about that. And the fun thing I thought this was, this excursion was at 3:30, so like kids were out, you know. And so like during the dance, one, like, toddler came out with her, like, was like a little phone going up to the mom who was dancing. And Mom's like, all right, mom, go back. And then like this other little boy who's probably like 10 or 11 was like an additional tour guide. It was really fun.
[00:45:24] Speaker C: Oh, that's so cute. Yeah, they're out of school for the day. That's awesome. I love that.
[00:45:29] Speaker B: What about, like, other big differences between Holland and Disney? What else stood out to you?
[00:45:34] Speaker E: They did have mascots, but they were not as good as, you know, Mickey or Minnie.
There was an otter.
You know, you just can't. I'm a theater person. And so there was no theater to be. Not even like, you know, like, even on Royal or Carnival. I had like, here's the rock and roll show.
No, there was none of that. They had like a dance company was more like watching, like, so you think you can dance performance that like the theming wasn't there.
[00:46:06] Speaker A: I never felt like. So the people who were working on the boat did a great job. But there's a big difference between working for Holland America and being a cast member for Disney and the way so you and I talked about this. So the cruise director, she was good, but really she was more doing the naturalist stuff, the like, serious discussions and things like that. The assistant cruise director was great. She was at Trivia. She was at the music venue. She was out there getting everybody pumped up. And I was just looking at Sonia and I'm like, if we're on a Disney cruise, these roles would be so reversed right now. This, like, makes no sense. Why? Why? I don't know the cruise director, but the assistant cruise director is awesome. And I really felt like that was like a major difference as just seen how the people working for Holland America were so different. They did a great job, don't get me wrong, but they just were not like at the end of a Disney cruise, you know, people's names. I could not have told you anybody's names, but I could tell you they all had that. I had a great time with them for the week.
[00:47:21] Speaker E: I mean, they were great. Like we had two cabin stewards and you got like the twice a day service, which, you know, I really liked. I would say, you know, when you're on Disney cruise, like, the vibe is fun. Exciting, full of activities.
This was more of a relaxing, chill vibe, I think.
[00:47:45] Speaker A: Way laid back.
[00:47:46] Speaker E: Very laid back, very relaxed. It was very informative. Like the programming that they had, like, like the lectures that they had. It was great to tell you everything, all you wanted to know about Alaska. But there wasn't a ton of fun activities, I guess. I mean, like watching a documentary. But it's just different, you know, chill. There wasn't. There was trivia, but it wasn't like.
[00:48:11] Speaker A: It wasn't as good as Disney trivia.
[00:48:13] Speaker C: Yeah. So different brand of fun. Different kind of fun and a little more education and music focused fun than shows and characters and whimsy kind of fun.
Yeah, that makes, that makes total sense. I gotta point out something you said, which is the twice a day room service because Disney is one of the few who does that. So that's kind of nice to know that Holland also does that. A lot of the other cruise lines have gone to once a day service, at least. I know Royal and Carnival only do once a day. Those are the big ones I can think of. Yeah. So that's, that's kind of a nice version at least. I don't know if they do it across the cruise line or if it was just because we were in Rockstar that we had twice a day, but I just don't know. But yeah, that's kind of a unique thing, I'd say.
[00:49:07] Speaker E: And a minor difference is that you get a towel or a blanket animal every night at Disney and not at Holland.
[00:49:14] Speaker A: Sunny's a big fan of her towel animals and she was like, why do we not have towel?
[00:49:21] Speaker C: I'm mad for you, Sonia. I am.
I am a towel animal person too. I need a new one every single day. I will tell you, even on Royal Caribbean you get a new towel animal every day. So step it up, Hal. Come on.
Is there anything that we've missed that we haven't covered about your cruise on Holland? We got to ask you actually a big question, which is would you sail Holland America again?
I think so.
[00:49:48] Speaker E: I mean, I did put down a deposit so they're like feature for. You can use it within four years and just kind of like Disney, if you don't use it, it comes back. I think what we're looking at is we want to go to Europe in the fall, right. And like Italy in particular. And I think Disney at the same time it's doing the Norway cruises. So that's something we're looking at. They also go to Asia and I think that's more like the benefit of the documentary type lectures would come in. If you're going somewhere that you've never been before. I think that's very helpful to learn about things.
[00:50:26] Speaker C: Yeah. And the more port intensive cruises where you're not spending as much time on the ship and so you don't maybe need some of that trivia and shows and stuff that you would want if you're in the Caribbean or, you know, Bahamas or something like that. At least that's what I, that's how I'm taking it from, from, from you guys that, that, that there is a place in your cruising vacation style that this fits in, but it's not maybe a different place than where Disney fits in.
[00:50:55] Speaker A: Yes, exactly. That's a really good way to put it. I sat a conversation when we were coming back on the trip and I said, so where would you place this? In our trips, we've done Carnival, we've done Royal Caribbean, we've done Disney. And she's like, well, Disney's first. I'm like, yeah, Disney's first. And she goes, I would probably put Hal second.
Because it really, even though it was laid back, even though there wasn't the excitement, it still, the food was good, the atmosphere was good. When I wanted it to be there, when I didn't want it to be there, it was fine. And it never really like I did. I was not disappointed in anything that we did on the cruise. Cruise.
[00:51:41] Speaker B: And, and did you think that it was like. I always like to try to frame the question of, you know, Holland America cruise cost X, Disney cruise costs X + whatever premium, you know. So did you feel like you got the full. That. Do you feel like that maybe put this way, does would going on Disney have been worth the premium to you for this cruise or it sounds like you were just fine.
[00:52:04] Speaker E: Not for Alaska.
[00:52:05] Speaker B: Not for Alaska.
[00:52:06] Speaker A: Okay, I, I think, and I think we agreed it's, it was fine without the Disney, but we, I mean, we're going on two Disney cruises next year, so we are coming back home. We are not by any way going to be leaving Disney.
[00:52:22] Speaker B: Yeah, fair.
[00:52:23] Speaker C: Fair.
[00:52:24] Speaker B: Sam, any last questions you have before I hand them back over to you for some rapid fire?
[00:52:28] Speaker C: No, I think I'm ready.
[00:52:30] Speaker B: All right, well then we have reached that point in the show where I need to hand you back to Sam for some arbitrary questions, some arbitrary rules and a dash of judgment of the round we know as rapid fire. Sam, take it away.
[00:52:40] Speaker C: All right, I'm gonna do a regular rapid fire. Since this is your first time on the show. I'm not gonna do a Versus because I think you've also answered a lot of the Versus questions throughout this discussion that we've had. And, you know, obviously, you know, who wins and on service and food and all these things.
I think I got an idea of where you're at with that. So we're gonna do standard rapid fire. I'm gonna ask you some regular Disney favorites, and then I'm gonna ask you some Disney Cruise Line favorites. And of course, I gotta start with who is your favorite dis.
I'm going to start with Russell for this question, and I have a feeling it's going to be a Star wars.
[00:53:14] Speaker A: Character, but it is not a Star wars character. My favorite character is screams McDuck.
[00:53:19] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:53:19] Speaker C: I love it. I love it. What about you, Sonja? Is it Stitch? You're wearing a Stitch sweatshirt.
I love it. Oh, Hannah. All right, what is your favorite Disney movie again? Disney means everything that Disney owns. We'll start with you, Sonia.
[00:53:35] Speaker E: Lilao and Stitch.
Animated.
[00:53:37] Speaker C: Yeah. Yeah. So obviously. Right. All right, Russell, what about you?
[00:53:42] Speaker A: I'm going to go with the Disney favorite, Aristocats.
[00:53:45] Speaker C: Oh, nice. All right, have you guys been on the Treasure yet?
[00:53:50] Speaker A: We are going in April of next year.
[00:53:54] Speaker C: Nice. Fantastic.
[00:53:55] Speaker E: All right.
[00:53:56] Speaker C: You're going to love it. Okay. Favorite Disney song, Russell?
[00:54:00] Speaker A: Oh, gosh. Favorite Disney song. Oh, it's from the Jungle Book. It's King Louie song. I want to be like.
[00:54:08] Speaker C: I want to be like you. Ooh, ooh, I want to walk like you.
[00:54:11] Speaker A: Classic.
[00:54:11] Speaker C: Yes. That's a great song. All right, Sonia, your favorite.
[00:54:15] Speaker E: I got friends on the other side.
[00:54:17] Speaker C: Oh, nice. Love it. All right, let's go to Disney Cruise Line. You can pick from any of the ships that you've been on.
So let's start with your favorite Disney Cruise Line show, meaning stage show in the Walt Disney Theater. Sonia, I have to start with you since you're a show person.
[00:54:35] Speaker E: Fragon.
[00:54:36] Speaker C: Awesome. Nice. All right, Russell, It's Frozen.
[00:54:41] Speaker A: When we saw this show, they had a guest from Broadway performing on it, and it was so good, it blew us away.
[00:54:49] Speaker C: It's so good. It's such a good production.
I've said this before on the show. I'll say it again. I think Frozen on DCL is better than the Broadway version and better than the version that they had in DCA in the Park.
All right, favorite activity on a Disney cruise, Russell.
[00:55:08] Speaker A: Favorite activity. Oh, it's gotta be trivia. There is nothing better than playing any trivia. I go. Sonia will go wait by the Pool. I'll go get a beer and we'll play trivia.
[00:55:19] Speaker C: Love it.
[00:55:20] Speaker E: Sonya, the dance party with all the characters. That's so much fun.
Love it.
[00:55:25] Speaker C: Love it. All right, favorite rotational dining restaurant. Sonia, we'll start with you.
[00:55:31] Speaker E: Hey, that's hard. Animator's palette.
[00:55:34] Speaker C: Absolutely. All right, Russell.
[00:55:37] Speaker A: Aaron Dale.
[00:55:38] Speaker C: Ah, the Frozen.
He was. For those not watching the video, Russell was whispering to Sonia for some help, for some assistance on this question.
All right, I'm going to ask you a favorite sweet item and a favorite savory item on a Disney cruise. We're going to start with the sweet, because the savories are the best.
So, Russell, what's a favorite sweet item? And by the way, soft serve is an appropriate answer.
[00:56:04] Speaker A: Soft serve is an appropriate. I've got to go with anything with gelato, because their gelato is so good.
[00:56:12] Speaker C: So good. Yes, absolutely. Palo has fantastic gelato. They serve it with your souffle, but you can also just get it on its own if you want. All right, Sonia, your favorite sweet item.
[00:56:25] Speaker E: The embarkation day Oreo cheesecake.
[00:56:28] Speaker C: Yes. And only the original one, the tr. The one that's in the regular shape of a triangle. They have this new one that looks like a little weird pastry thing. It's not good. Yeah, yeah. It's only. I think that one's on the wish class, but on the older ships, they still have the triangle version. Yeah.
All right. Savory item.
Sonia.
[00:56:52] Speaker E: I like the scallop puff thing from Arendelle. That's pretty good.
[00:56:56] Speaker C: Yes. Super good.
[00:56:57] Speaker A: Russell, that's the same thing. That's exactly. I'd like the puff with the scallops in it. It's so good.
[00:57:04] Speaker C: It is a really good dish. Yeah. All right. Remy versus Paulo. And you can even pick, like, Remy dinner, Remy brunch, or lunch, I guess now. And enchante also is in the mix there. Or. And, you know, Palo brunch. Palo, dinner. Which one is the favorite? Which one wins all? Russell was smart with you.
[00:57:24] Speaker A: You. It's Remy.
[00:57:25] Speaker C: Yeah. Remy, dinner. Yeah.
[00:57:28] Speaker E: Sonja, Remy, dinner.
[00:57:30] Speaker C: Yeah. Fantastic. All right, the most important question of all. Which one is your favorite ship? You can only choose from a ship that you've been on. Sonia, we'll start with you.
[00:57:40] Speaker E: The fantasy.
[00:57:42] Speaker A: Russell, 100% agree. It's the fantasy. The art deco in the fantasy is just amazing. And it's down.
[00:57:49] Speaker C: Yeah, it's a beautiful ship. All right, your bucket list cruise. You could go anywhere in the world on a Disney ship. It doesn't even have to be someplace Disney Currently goes. Where are you going, Russell?
[00:58:01] Speaker A: It would have to be cruising the Mediterranean with Disney because we want to go to the Mediterranean. I want to go to the Mediterranean. So man, that would be it.
[00:58:13] Speaker C: So Neil, what about you?
[00:58:14] Speaker E: So Holland and other places have the 28 day cruises. So I would like to do all the Asian Disney parks but then also go to Bali and like around there and then like back up.
[00:58:27] Speaker C: I love it. I. That would be, that would be my fantasy cruise as well. Sonia. Fantastic. All right, you guys, you both get A's. Pass the flying colors.
No judgment.
Thank you for. Thank you for letting me subject you to my rapid fire. I always appreciate it. I love when people are good sports about it.
You mentioned you're going in April on the Treasure and you have another cruise booked. What's the other cruise that you've got booked? Booked?
[00:58:54] Speaker E: We're gonna do Halloween on the high seas on the Dream next October.
[00:59:00] Speaker C: Oh, next October. Awesome. Okay, so. So you've got April on the Treasure and then October on the Dream. Fantastic. Well, we've got to tell you, you gotta come back on the show and give us your review of the Treasure. Whenever somebody is, you know, trying out the, one of the, the newer ships in the fleet. I always, we always love to hear impressions, especially from experienced cruisers. So definitely join us for that. And with that we'll just say thanks for coming on the show, you guys. We really appreciate it.
[00:59:28] Speaker A: Thanks so much. We appreciate it.
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