Listener Q&A: Alaska Splurges, Cruising with Toddlers, Japan Itineraries & Galveston Homeports
CruiseTipsTV Unplugged - Cruise Tips and More
Sheri from CruiseTipsTV
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🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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It's time for another listener Q&A! This week we're covering a wide range of cruise questions—from the best Alaska splurges (glacier treks vs. flightseeing) to practical tips for cruising with toddlers, including diapers, strollers, and mealtime strategies. We also dive into Japan cruise planning (why a roundtrip Yokohama sailing can be a game-changer), what's happening in the Galveston cruise market, smart Princess Cruises tips, and even cruise-friendly skincare essentials. If you've got cruise questions, chances are they're answered in this episode. Download our shore day bag checklist and more cruise packing and planning checklists & videos by joining the CruiseTipsTV Academy at https://academy.cruisetipstv.com
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Cruise Tips TV Unplugged podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | Today on the show, we are answering our listener questions. |
| 0:12.4 | Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm your host, Sherry, and we invite you to join our cruise-loving family as we travel the world creating cruise |
| 0:23.0 | videos and vlogs. In this podcast, we talk tips, tactics, and strategies to help you make every |
| 0:30.1 | cruise your dream cruise. We've got questions and more. We've got a little bit of news, |
| 0:36.1 | don't we? Yeah, there's some news out there |
| 0:37.8 | this week. I mean, there's actually been quite a bit of news this week. Free at C plus is back with |
| 0:44.1 | Norwegian. They decided that they were going to be listening to their guests, which I think is always |
| 0:49.2 | a good idea, right? When people get a little up in arms about a change, it's always a good idea |
| 0:52.9 | to listen. So now you can upgrade your free at sea for $49.99 a day. And you can get the Starbucks package |
| 1:01.7 | back. You can get unlimited streaming Wi-Fi, which is definitely an upgrade from their normal |
| 1:06.5 | minutes limit program. Premium wine and champagne. And here is a big one. Unlimited bottled water. |
| 1:14.3 | People were not happy that Starbucks and water were not included in the drink package anymore. |
| 1:19.3 | But you also get 50% off additional specialty dining in addition to what they already include. |
| 1:24.1 | And unlimited open bar at GSC, great stirrup key, which is super cool. So I think that was |
| 1:30.5 | probably the biggest news this week. Carnival also unveiled their next kind of wave of deployments. |
| 1:39.8 | Looks like Carnival frenzy is going to be offering some itineraries from New York, and they're |
| 1:44.5 | doing a special Carnival Journey's cruise from Miami. And then, listen to this. I don't know if |
| 1:50.5 | you noticed this when you were working on this article, but Carnival Splendor is adding a special |
| 1:55.0 | sailing to and from Singapore. I think that's really cool. So, exciting stuff. That is very cool. Yeah. Yeah. This is interesting, though. It says roundtrip sailing is from Sydney and to Carnival journeys for Southeast Asia to and from Singapore. I think that's awesome. So big news from Carnival this week. What else was going on? Princess mentioned that they |
| 2:21.6 | were going to be broadcasting the FIFA World Cup on the ships. I sound a little, I wasn't sure. |
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