4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 31 December 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Connie and her husband just returned from Holland America's ms Westerdam on a seven-night Eastern Caribbean sailing. They are no stranger to Holland America Line with their five star mariner status. Connie chats with us about her Thanksgiving sailing, how impressions of Holland America, what draws her back to the cruise line time after time and the ports of call she experienced during her cruise.
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0:28.4 | Every press release I get is pretty much the same. |
0:31.0 | I got one that came across my desk last week, and it's a program in Mexico that you can get 8.9% back if you spend money in Mexico. |
0:40.9 | It's an incentive program that Mexico is giving cruise passengers if you spend your money in the |
0:46.0 | cruise ports. So on the line right now is Danielle. She is with money back and she joins us |
0:50.9 | this afternoon. Hey, Danielle, how are you doing? Hello, how are you? This is great. Thank you so much for the invitation for the phone call. |
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1:04.6 | Right off the bat, I want to ask you, cruise passengers getting 8.9% back when they're shopping in Mexico. |
1:09.5 | Sounds kind of gimmicky, but who initiated |
1:12.6 | this program and why does it exist? Well, in 2007, in December, in 2008, basically, the Mexican |
1:19.6 | government authorized this program for foreigners shopping in Mexico, arriving by plane or cruise ship. |
1:25.8 | Moneyback, we opened our doors in 2008, and now we process |
1:29.4 | about 95% of the refunds nationwide throughout the whole country. |
1:34.6 | Millions of cruise passengers go to Cosmell and Mexican cruise ports every year, so they |
1:40.2 | could basically just take advantage of this, like no questions asked? |
1:43.4 | Yes, definitely. |
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