From the Bob Raleigh Studio in Orlando, Florida, you're listening to The Dizz Unplug.

Hello and welcome to the Dizz Unplug Roundtable discussion for the week of August 24, 2011

from Orlando, Florida.

I am your host Pete Warner, joined at the table this week by my good friends Walter Eccles.

Kathy Whirling, Teresa Eccles, Kevin Close and John Meijai, max the intern back in the peanut gallery.

In this segment we are going to discuss the trip to Alaska that Walter and I just got back from on Disney Cruise Line.

We were actually supposed to do this trip early in May, one of the first sailings.

But I really wanted to do the Adventures by Disney add-on and it was canceled because it wasn't an ABD add-on was canceled because it wasn't enough people on that particular sailing.

One of the problems is is that Adventures by Disney announces it's stuff too late and people don't have really, you know, these are expensive add-ons.

These add-ons are almost as much if not more than the cruise itself.

People need time to plan for that. They can't do it five months out and that's unfortunately what ABD has a bad habit of doing.

We decided to move it to August so that we could experience the Adventures by Disney add-on.

This is a first cruise to Alaska for both Walter and I and I will say that he was looking forward to it far more than I was.

I thought I wasn't looking forward to it but Alaska never held any great appeal for me.

When we had non-tropical to death and some of the books I've seen that people come back from cruises to Alaska made it look so interesting.

And so different than anything we've ever done so I was really looking forward to that.

Well, again, it comes back to the difference between Walter and I being, you know, he's nature boy I'm not.

And, you know, I definitely did learn from Southwest splendors that the nature not so scary.

Well, but, you know, it's beautiful to look at, you know, and I can appreciate it on a level that I didn't think that I could.

So, you know, I figured, okay, that would be this, although looking at the itinerary for this particular adventure.

Does him a little robust for what I would expect?

It's a lot more engagement with nature than, you know, passively looking at it.

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