It seems like the Disney cruises had like a premium, but then like Wonder kind of stepped it up a little bit.

Icon kind of stepped it up a little bit.

And then, and their prices were increasing, like kind of dramatically, I think, as I've been watching them over the past like year.

And then Disney was like, hold my beer.

Here's the treasure.

Yeah. And then Disney was like, hold my beer. Here's the treasure. Welcome back, everybody, to this week's episode of the DCL duo podcast, brought to you by my unwinding travel and Sam I don't have a good intro for the reviews anymore. I mean, we're just, we're going to read a review, right? That's what we're doing. Everyone knows we're doing it. We're going to read a five-star review that gives us some accolades so that we feel better about ourselves. You know, when I'm having a bad day. This is what I like to do. I just go on Apple Podcasts and read reviews. So those of you, those of you who haven't left us, one, if you want to help my mental health, go on Apple Podcasts and read a review, okay? Yeah. If you want to help my energy level, because I do all of the work on this show, it always helps me to see that people appreciate it. So this review comes from Stephanie Feedy. I hope I'm pronouncing that right. F-I-T-E, who writes, hands-down my favorite. This is hands-down my favorite podcast out there. I have listened to many podcasts relating to Disney, but there's something about Sam and Brian's podcast that keeps me coming back for more. I absolutely love that they have guests on and we get to hear different opinions and viewpoints from what they experienced, not just the host talking each time. I have learned so much about what to plan for with my upcoming cruise. If you haven't listened to episode 308, question in the back, I highly recommend it. They also have a few episodes that discuss sailing with a child, having special needs. These were also super helpful. Sam and Brian, thank you so much for fueling my much-needed DCL addiction. I listen religiously and get so excited when I see a new show has been released. I can't wait to be a guest myself after our February 2024. Pixar Day at Sea Cruise over Valentine's. I wish so bad we could join you for your inaugural podcast cruise to see Lighthouse Point. Maybe next time, so don't make it your last. All right, there you go,

Sam. Now you can comment away. Oh, I love that. What a great review. Thank you so much.

And the thing I wanted to comment on was that episode question in the back. I also love that episode.

That was totally just an email we got from now a

friend of the show because we met him on board a sailing pretty recently at Chris. And yeah,

he just, he hadn't sailed that he had been doing lots of research and he just had some questions

that he couldn't find answers to. And we answered them on the show just with his questions, his written questions.

He wasn't even a guest on the show. And I think it turned out to be a great episode myself. So I'm, I'm glad that others appreciate that. I think it's a really good. We've done that a couple of times, actually. We had, we had, yeah, we had a guest on and did it live with them about sailing every, which sailing that was. It wasn't the one with Chris, but we did another one where just let them ask us questions and we responded real time. So if you send us questions or you have, so if you have questions, you want to send them in. You can always send us questions over email. You can raise your hand and say, I got like 20 questions about our upcoming cruise. We might try to bring you on the show. For instance, this

morning, someone reached out and asked me for recommendations for Disneyland planning podcasts. And while

we cover Disneyland rarely on the show, more for our patrons these days than anything, I'd say

that there's some great podcasts out there, like Rope Drop Radio, Disney Deciphered, and our friends

over at Markethouse, who cover Disneyland a lot.

So send us questions. We love to give those answers out to the whole community.

But for now, I'll just say thank you for the review. We really, really appreciate it.

And with that, Sam, you want to talk about our guests and our show for today?

Yeah, I'm super excited about our guest today. He's got quite a bit of cruising experience. He's got Disney

cruising experience, but also cruising on Disney's major competitor, Royal Caribbean. And he's booked

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