Amateur Traveler Podcast. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Today on the show

Cruising to Alaska by Small Boat. Hi this is Sam from the SG Show Podcast at SG Show. blogspot.com.

And whenever I want to go someplace, I always listen to the amateur traveler podcast first.

Good morning and welcome to the show.

It's Saturday, December 10th as I record this show.

I'm not sure how long I'm going to use Sam's promo but it does bring a

smile to my face. Anybody else who wants to record a promo with the show I'd be glad to

try it out. Before I get in the main portion of the show which will be an interview today I have a couple

news stories the first one is about easy crews you may know that easy crews is a popular

discount european Cruise is a popular discount European cruise line which has been cruising the

Mediterranean created by the founder of the discount airline easy jet also

European and they have just moved into the

Caribbean and they are advertising against Carnival Cruise line and they're

basically saying their cruise line their

cruise ad says if spending nights at sea in tacky ballrooms full of old folks is

not your idea of a holiday than EasyCruz.com is for you.

And then at the bottom of the edits as any similarity with carnival ships is purely coincidental. You may be aware that Carnival

operates 79 ships under 12 different brands including Carnival Cruise Lines

Princess Cruise Lines, Kunar Kunard Cruise Lines, etc.

So they're going to try and heat up that.

Easy Cruise is a very different cruise line.

Be interested if anybody has taken an easy cruise,

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