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This is. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. On this week's show, we will talk to Vicki Bones. She just returned from an Alaska cruise on Princess Cruises. Before we get to Vicky, I do want to remind you about Cruise Radio Insider, our Facebook group, come and discuss the daily cruise news with us. And speaking of Cruise news, Cruise Radio News, yeah, it's a little podcast,

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A big hit over 2,000 listens and less than a couple of weeks so keep on listening to that. Now to the interview. We always like to get your cruise reviews here on the show. If you have one you'd like to share, shoot me an email, Doug, at cruiseradio. We'd love to get you on this show. We're talking with Vicki Bone today. She is returned from a seven-night cruise out of Seattle aboard Crown Princess, and she's no stranger to Princess cruises. We'll talk about that a little later on in the show. Hello, Vicki. Oh, hi, Doug. So we talked a few months ago when you were on Crown Princess, and here you are again, like just getting off it again. Is you have an obsession with this ship or what? Well, you know, you do fall in love with the crew that are on board, but this time it was more convenience and the itinerary.

Yeah.

Yeah, your last cruise is what, California coastal?

That's right, yeah, seven days, L.A. to Vancouver.

Nice.

So you live in Vancouver, and so you had to go down to Seattle. How does a local from Vancouver get to Seattle affordably? Well, as much as we wish, we could get there pretty quickly. We have, it takes about two and a half hours, but it was a long weekend in BC, and they had a big C-Fair Festival in Seattle. So the border was a little bit crazy, but we gave enough time.

We took our time.

We went down to Rick Steves store and Edmund,

so we kind of made like a little bit of a jaunt all over.

Went to a couple of wine stores we wanted and then met up with friends at their house in Seattle

and they live within a, well, basically a stone store of the pier and spend the night with them.

Nice, very nice. You get to the pier at the port of Seattle. How was embarkation for you?

Well, this is a relatively new pier, Pier, Pier 91, both Holland America and Prince of Sail out of there.

It's a bit of a distance from downtown, but that might be a good thing.

So it's, you know, there's a lot of parking area there.

And we were dropped off probably around quarter to 12, which is something I never do.

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