What's your favorite cruise line that you've sailed? Is it Disney or is it one of the others? It's not really a fair fight with Seaborne in the mix. Yeah, fair enough. I feel like I have to exclude. Yeah, that's not really comparable. I think that's like three times the cost per person for night and all the others. So, I mean, yeah, excluding, excluding Seaborne.

Welcome back, everybody to this week's episode of the DCL Duo podcast, brought to you by

my path unwinding travel.

And Sam is not with me this evening.

She's not feeling well, but decided to press ahead with our recordings.

So you're stuck with me, but I've got a fabulous guest joining me, and we will have a fun chat.

But before I get to introducing the guest, I wanted to read one of our reviews on the air as we promised to a fun chat. But before I get to introducing the guest,

I wanted to read one of our reviews on the air as we promised to do each week.

And so this one comes from Mickey Mark 365, who writes the Essential DCL podcast.

I have been listening to the DCL duo for some years now and find them to be the experts on DCL.

My wife and I recently booked our fourth DCL crews cruise and we are getting uncomfortably close to five years and did not want to lose our castaway club status. We booked a May repositioning cruise on the Magic from San Juan to Fort Lauderdale. It's a unique sailing and our first time on the Magic. It's also our first DCL cruise without our sun. I have really dug into the back

catalog and I found everything I need and more to prepare for this trip. What a terrific

resource. Thank you, DCL Duo. Well, thank you, Mickey Mark, 365 for leaving that review.

For those of you out there who don't know the reference here about five years, a Disney Cruise Line

implemented a couple years ago now, a policy that they would reset

Castaway Club status for anyone who had not sailed in the last five years. I have not actually seen them do that. If that's happened to you, I'd love to hear about it, but I have not actually seen them do that to anyone quite yet. So hopefully that was just a terms and conditions that they don't actually enforce for folks out there. I would sure hate to see someone lose their platinum or pearl status over not sailing in five years.

But with that, Mickey Mark, thank you so much again for the review. We really appreciate it. I hope you had a fabulous sailing for all of you out there. Remember, one of the easiest ways to support the show is to head over to Apple Podcast, hit those five stars, or leave us a written review and we will read it on the air at the top of one

of our main episodes each week. So with that, I do have a fabulous guest. I want to introduce

Larry to the show, first-time guest on the DCL duo. Welcome, Larry. Thank you. Thank you. First

time caller, a long-time listener. There you go. There you go. Well, excited to have you on.

You've got quite the interesting cruising story, but we always like to A long-time listener. There you go. There you go. Well, excited to have you on.

You've got quite the interesting cruising story, but we always like to start folks with their Disney background.

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