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I'm your host, Matt Hodgeberg, and this is episode number 4009.

With cruise is about to restart again,

and from a lot of places that you might not think about going on a cruise, perhaps,

flying to your cruise has never been more important.

So this week, I wanted to go back to basics with booking a flight for your cruise.

Here we go.

Before the cruise industry shut down and everybody's lives changed, living in Florida,

we would rarely ever fly to a cruise.

It just wasn't usually necessary.

It wasn't that we wouldn't do it, but most of the time we had a lot of cruise ships going

out of Florida and ample opportunity to be able had a lot of cruise ships going out of

Florida and ample opportunity to be able to drive to a cruise.

And at the end of the day, I don't care where you live.

If you're able to drive to a cruise, it's a lot easier because you're taking away a added

aspect of the vacation.

But we actually have our first cruise coming up and it's going to require us to fly there.

And I thought this week we could talk about flying to a cruise, flying 101 when it comes to

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