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This weekend's episode of Cruise Radio Rewind comes in by request from Debbie. She's sailing a

Baltic cruise next year. And Carolyn and Jim just returned from a nine-night Baltic Cruise on Norwegian

Getaway. In fact, I should mention the ship was newly

refurbished as well just a couple of months ago. So we'll jump right to them. If you have a ship request, you can always email me, Doug at cruiseradio.net. Good morning, Carolyn and Jim. Hi. Hi. So so much ground to cover on this interview because this was a honeymoon cruise for you all. So first off, congratulations.

Thank you very much.

Thanks.

And, yeah, I'm excited to talk all about this.

And before we get over to Northern Europe, we're going to take a step back. And what made you want to take this nine-night cruise on Norwegian getaway? Because y'all are in the Washington, D.C. area. That's kind of a long way to go for a cruise. Yeah. Yeah, it was a bit of a distance.

When we started talking about our honeymoon and we got married a year ago as kind of a delayed

honeymoon, we knew we wanted to go to Europe. We wanted to do something big, but we also were

kind of craving that resort to get pampered experience. And so when we started kind of researching things, a cruise

was really the best option. And in particular, the Baltic region, you know, the cities we went to,

really the easiest way to get to them all and sort of one trip is through a cruise. So, yeah,

that's kind of how we chose the vacation. And we're really thankful we did. Where did this cruise leave out of? Out of Copenhagen, Denmark. So you make your way from D.C. area to Copenhagen. Any pre-cruised time in Europe? Yeah, we spent a day before the cruise in Copenhagen. So we got to see that city a little bit more. And we actually spent a

day there after as well. Okay, very nice. So you make your way to Norwegian getaway. How was the

embarkation process? It was pretty good. It was a very busy, crowded ship. There were 4,700

passengers. Wow. So considering all of those people getting on the ship at the same time,

pretty much, it took about 45 minutes.

Most of that was waiting to check in our luggage. But it wasn't bad. It wasn't bad.

Random question, but what is the gratuity situation like when you're tipping porters, when they're taking your bag over there?

You know, there were, it's, it's, a baltic cruise is really interesting because you have a

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