It was like buying, it reminded me buying tickets to a really sort after concert.

You go on to Ticketmaster and within minutes they're sold out and it's a battle to get anything,

that was what it was like.

You can't see.

Hey, DCL Duo fans, before we dive into tonight's episode, just two quick announcements.

First, you can probably tell from the teaser trailer that the sound on this episode is going

to be a little bit off.

And actually, we had a microphone issue on our end as well that as I got into editing,

I realized only after the fact.

And so I thought the content was worth sharing with you and so still wanted to put it out. So just bear with us on the sound quality. You can still understand everything. It's just not as good as we would hope. Second thing is a little bit of a trigger warning. I titled this episode, Tough Love for Disney Cruise Line. Stee is a first time cruiser out of the UK on Disney Cruise Line. He sailed on other lines. And I wanted to bring you his thoughts on Disney Cruise Line because he was good at sort of pointing out the compare and contrast between the cruise line and identifying some places where it fell down a little bit on his research, based on his research. And so wanted you to hear that perspective. I'm sure several of you will be shouting at the car or throwing things at your radio or wherever you listen to your podcast and that's okay but

we always think it's good to have diverse perspectives on the podcast and so wanted to bring you

steve's story so with that on to our episode welcome back everybody this week's a bonus episode of the

dc l duo podcast and evening, I'm excited to welcome all the way from the United Kingdom. Stee, welcome, Stee. Glad to be speaking, Sue. I'm glad to have you on. And Stee is coming on to talk about his family's experience on board the Disney Magic at one of the staycations at sea that sailed

out of Liverpool. He was on the sailing on the 27th on a three-night cruise. And by all accounts

from our off-air conversations, Steve's got some good and bad observations from the cruise,

which we always love to hear. So I will preface that it's just going to be me today for all of you listeners out there. So you're stuck with Boreal Brian from the DCL duo, the other half of our duo is at an appointment with our son today. So, but let's dive right in. Steve, can you talk to folks about what your cruising experience has been up until now, which cruise lines you've sailed on and how many you've taken, and whether you have any prior experience with Disney cruise line?

Yeah, absolutely.

So this was our fifth cruise.

We started, oh, 2013, just when we and my wife at the time.

It wasn't really something, I'll be honest, that I was ever overly drawn to doing.

I always wanted to go to Las Vegas and

my wife fancied a cruise. So we said, all right, well, let's, we'll do Vegas first because

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