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Frederick just returned from a 14-night sailing.

It started in Honolulu. It did the South Pacific. It ended in Papite over in Tahiti. He joins us on the line to chat all about this 14-night extravaganza on Norwegian Sun. How you doing, my friend? I'm doing excellent. Thank you so much, Doug, for bringing me back on your show. I really do appreciate it. You're doing such an amazing work on the cruise radio. My pleasure. The feelings mutual, my friend. I'm excited to talk about this one because this is a 14-night bucket list cruise pretty much. Honolulu to Tahiti. We'll get some pre-cruist thoughts, though. You live in Sweden. You had to make your way over to Hawaii. What made you

want to sail this one? Because normally you sail, well, at least in the past that we've spoken about,

the newer NCL ships. Well, my husband and I have been together for 30 years. And when we got married,

22 years ago, we took our first cruise. And that was on the brand new Royal Caribbean Navigator

this season. Actually, we sailed more Royal than we have any other line, even though we've sailed probably 12 or 13 different lines.

But since then, it's really escalated to the point that we're up on 117 cruises now.

Wow.

So to mark our 30-year anniversary, we saw where haven't we been?

So we looked at the map and we said, this is a really cool itinerary because it started in Honolulu and Hawaii, where we've never been. And it ended in Tate, South Pacific, where we've never been either. I love that you're so much different than a lot of folks who say, okay, well, we're going to go on another cruise, Western or Eastern, what itinerary, where you're like, where haven't we gone and we're going to go there? Yeah. And there's so many places you can go. I mean, there's water literally everywhere. But we're moving to so many cruises in Europe, of course, because it's very easy for us flying from Sweden to the Mediterranean is a three-hour flight. So getting to Honolulu, that's a completely different thing.

The time difference is 12 hours.

So it took us three nights to get us back on that time zone.

So we did two nights in Seattle and then one night in Honolulu.

Yeah, I was going to ask you about this because it is a long flight.

You mentioned, of course, the 12-hour time difference as well. and it's no easy feat getting from Sweden over to Honolulu. Even with that stopover in Seattle, though, do you let the cruise line book your air, or do you prefer to book on points or just find the best deal? How do you all do it?

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