Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, how's it going?

My name is Doug Parker.

Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

Happy to have you here.

If you're listening right now during the week of April 16th, 2018, I am currently sailing on Carnival Horizon, and I invite you to follow along.

You can do that by following me on Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook.

It's all Cruise Radio as the handle.

And also logging daily trip reports on the website at cruiseradio.net.

So we'll get as much answered for you as we can, but getting a lot of listener questions

about Carnival Horizon.

And we'll have a show out later this week about the ship as well. If you want to email me a question, it's Doug at cruiseradio.net, DOUG at cruiseradio.com. Joe and his wife just got back from a 12-night Baltic cruise on Holland America's Ziderdam and Joe's on the line. How you doing, Joe?

Doing well, Doug. Thanks for having me on. Yeah, yeah, for sure. And thanks for being here. And we'll get all to the Zydardam in just a couple of minutes. I love that ship. But before we get there, let's take a step back and give me some pre-cruz thoughts. What made you want to sail this Baltic cruise on the Zydderdam?

Well, basically, we enjoy cruising

for purposes of seeing the destinations.

And Northern Europe is an area we hadn't been to in the past.

My wife is of German descent, but we hadn't been that far up in Germany.

And we've been on Holland American before and really love the cruises and the ships.

And if we needed any excuse, my wife was retiring this year, so that was a good enough excuse to take a cruise.

Absolutely.

Now, you make your way from L.A. over to Copenhagen.

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