You're listening to the Cruise Tips TV Unplugged podcast episode number two.

Today we're talking about our cruise philosophy and how it impacts the outcomes of our vacation experiences.

Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged. I'm your host Sherry and I invite you to join our cruise loving family

as we travel the world creating cruise videos and blogs. In this podcast, we talk tips, tactics,

and strategies to help you make every cruise your dream cruise.

Hey, cruisers, welcome back to the pod. Today we're covering a topic that's a little bit sensitive, but it's really important to us and kind of defines who we are and how we experience

our life. So Mr. Cruise Tips TV and I wanted to talk openly about it. We often see comments on

YouTube and Facebook from cruisers who have had bad experiences on a cruise. It usually goes

something like this. This happened to me and it ruined my cruise or I'll never sail that line

again because this happened to me. We've seen things like missed ports,

lost luggage, bad food, grumpy crew, motion sickness, or bad weather listed as things that

have totally ruined people's cruises. And these comments make us super sad, especially the ones

that say that they'll never cruise a particular line again or worse yet

that they will never cruise again. Okay, we get it though. Things like this can be devastating.

Sometimes we look forward to a cruise for well over a year. You're saving, you're planning,

and dreaming, and when the big event finally arrives and things don't go like you hoped or expected,

well, it can be disappointing to say the least. So in this episode, we're going to talk about

positive thinking. I know it sounds silly, but before you think we're going all woo-woo on you,

give it just a little time to understand our reasoning. What we're going to do today is give you a few strategies or maybe different

ways to look at things and then provide some examples from our personal past experiences

that could have ruined our cruise and explain how and why we handled them the way that we did.

The purpose of this conversation, just like the majority of the conversations we have at

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