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Ben and his family just returned from a cruise over in Greece on the Norwegian Viva, the second

in the prima class.

He joins us on the line to share his vacation with us.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing great, Doug.

Good to talk to you again.

I can't wait to hear you to get you to unpack this sailing because I know that you're, you do like NCL, but this is your first time on a prima class ship. So before we get there, you're in the northwest Seattle. You had to make your way over to Athens slash Piraeus to board the ship. So give me some pre-cruised thoughts. What made you want to sail this sailing? Yeah, my mother-in-law wanted to do a cruise to

celebrate her 60th birthday with all of her friends and family and uh as a christmas present to her

i said hey i'll organize the whole group thing so we started planning this gosh christmas 20 or 2023, about two years ago. And it was amazing.

You left Seattle, headed 6,000 miles east over to Athens. Do you have any tips to share with us?

Like, did you use miles? Did you leverage points? Did you book through the airline? Any thoughts?

Yeah. So we're in Seattle and we decided. use miles, did you leverage points, did you book through the airline? Any thoughts? Yeah,

so we're in Seattle and we decided to rendezvous with everybody in New York and we stayed at the

TWA Hotel at JFK, which it's that iconic mid-century. They filmed Catch me if you can there.

So we had a great time and it was nice to just break up the two legs of the trip that way and not be anxious about everyone coordinating their flights.

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