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

Today we have a very special surprise.

I have invited my travel agent, Wendy, from Dream Vacations to come on and take it behind the scenes

and talk about all the things you need to know about working with a travel agent when booking a cruise.

Thank you. you need to know about working with a travel agent when booking a cruise. Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged. I'm your host, Sherry, and we invite you to join our

cruise-loving family as we travel the world creating cruise videos and vlogs.

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your dream cruise.

Wendy, I'm so glad you're here.

Thank you so much for agreeing to do this.

Sherry, thanks for having me.

I'm super excited to be here today.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Tell our audience a little bit about your background and how you became a travel agent and what it is that you do for people exactly.

Yeah, great. Well, I am a third generation travel agent. So actually my grandma and my mom were both travel agents. I still remember

when I was a child and going to my grandma's travel agency back in the 80s. She even had the

wood paneling on the walls. So I've been in this business a long time. I actually started in 2006

opening up my own agency. I have a franchise called Dream Vacations, and we are a full-service

travel agency, so we do everything from, you know, cruise vacations to destination weddings, to,

you know, all-inclusive, everything you do and travel. I have eight agents on my team. And we're

actually, Dream Vacations is under the umbrella of world travel holdings, which there's a ton of

travel agencies in our network. And so we are actually the nation's largest seller of cruise

travel. What I do for my clients, I will tell you, you know, I joke around with my clients every day and I say I'm a personal assistant.

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