NCL Returns to Free at Sea + Amtrak Adventures with Wendy!
CruiseTipsTV Unplugged - Cruise Tips and More
Sheri from CruiseTipsTV
4.8 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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This week, Sheri sits down with Wendy, her travel agent partner at CruiseTipsTV, to chat about Norwegian Cruise Line's switch back to Free at Sea — what it means for cruisers — plus a fun dive into the world of Amtrak travel. Whether you love the sea or the rails, this episode is full of travel inspo and insider insight! 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. Today on the show, I brought Wendy, |
| 0:06.5 | our travel agent partner on to talk a little bit more about Norwegian's recent change back |
| 0:12.0 | from more at sea to free at sea. |
| 0:18.7 | Welcome to Cruise Tips TV Unplugged. |
| 0:21.5 | I'm your host Sherry and we invite you to join our cruise-loving family as we travel the world creating cruise videos and vlogs. |
| 0:30.6 | In this podcast, we talk tips, tactics, and strategies to help you make every cruise your dream cruise. Wendy, welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:40.9 | Thank you so much for coming on and discussing this potentially somewhat complicated topic with me. |
| 0:47.4 | How are you? Hi, Sherry. Yeah, I know. I'm glad to be back. Yeah, I know this is definitely a little |
| 0:52.8 | confusing and so I was glad that you're |
| 0:54.7 | having me on today so we can discuss free to see more at C and now back to free at C. Yeah, |
| 1:00.1 | exactly. Free at C, more at C and now back to free at C. So let's give people just a general |
| 1:07.2 | idea of what Free at C is and then we can kind of get into some of the details here |
| 1:14.6 | because it can get kind of confusing. So if I understand it correctly, is free and sea kind of a way |
| 1:19.0 | that Norwegian makes your cruise a little bit more all inclusive than like a normal cruise where |
| 1:23.9 | basically what you get is like you get your cabin and then everything else is extra |
| 1:28.9 | on top of that. Is that kind of how it works? Correct. So what they did, and I remember the meeting |
| 1:34.3 | with Andy Stewart and they were going over this years ago on how they were going to this all-inclusive |
| 1:38.9 | kind of program. And it does make sense because what happens with a lot of clients, they will |
| 1:43.7 | book a cruise with me from another line and they book it. |
| 1:47.5 | The price point was perfect for them. |
| 1:49.2 | And then they go in to see all the extra perks that they need to purchase. |
| 1:53.2 | And when they look at the drink package and the Wi-Fi and the dining, now their cruise has doubled in price. |
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