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So we've got a whole slew of tips from our listeners.
We do indeed.
They were so helpful.
We set out on Facebook to ask people, hey, what is your best cruise tip for 2023?
And they gave me some really clever ones.
So you're going to find some things here that are really unique to 2023.
And then you're going to find some things that are old school, just really good tried
and true tips.
So I think it's a nice combination of old and new reminders and also some modifications
based on kind of the climate that we're cruising in right now, Mr. Cruise Tips TV.
This should be a fun one though.
I love listener-inspired shows.
They're really my favorites because, like we always say, we're not the cruise experts,
right?
We're here to share what we know and to bring this awesome community together.
So when they bring their knowledge together, it's always pretty amazing.
And if you want to see this post, go back to, oh gosh, I think it's about May 21st or so,
May 21st, 2023 on Facebook.com forward slash cruise tips TV.
And just read what people wrote and also just observe how people support each other
in the comments, like thanking one another for all the great ideas, bouncing ideas off
of each other.
It's really cool.
And I really find that when we put these questions out there, there's just as much information
that's gleaned from the Facebook post as there is from this podcast.
It's like reading the Facebook post is really fun too because you see how people are kind
of expanding on different ideas and all of that.
So go check it out.
So Mr. Cruise Tips TV, when I was thinking about the concept of this podcast, there was
one thing that I really wanted to share as a 2023 cruise tip.
Okay.
To people.
And the reason I want to share this tip is because I keep getting DMs and I keep getting
really frustrated people on YouTube comments saying that this thing is happening to them.
And that thing is that they're getting their power strips confiscated.
So like the non-surge power strips, even cruise approved ones, particularly when they cruise
with Royal Caribbean, their stuff is getting taken out of their bag and taken to the naughty
room.
So I wanted to share that with everyone today because we constantly give disclaimers about
this.
And we have for the last six months to a year been saying to people, you know, when we promote
a product like that, we'll say buy it at your own risk.
Royal Caribbean cruisers beware.
Like these are getting confiscated left and right.
To be clear, these are the ones that you buy on Amazon that say cruise approved.
Yeah, they're like cruise safe, non-surge.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So even those are still getting confiscated.
And so the reason I wanted to start the show with that is because I think that this is
a segue into some tips that a lot of listeners have.
But I also think there is a, there's an alternate thing that you can try and buy that probably
will be safe.
And that is one of Carmen's suggestion.
Carmen, hi.
Thank you for always being such a sweetheart and for sharing our posts.
You're amazing.
Carmen said a USB hub is a, is still a really good way to go and really saved her on her
cruise.
So if you're not wanting to buy like an AC power strip, a USB hub's probably going to
be okay.
Do not hold me to that folks.
If your cruise line says, hey, don't bring USB hubs, then don't bring a USB hub.
But I think in general, people are not having issues with USB hubs.
I'm not hearing about them getting confiscated.
We've never heard anything about USB hubs being confiscated.
And I, and I think the other ones being confiscated is just the fact that they're being confused
or surge protectors, which are not a problem.
So here's what some of our community members do, including Jim ring, you know, Jim.
Jim, they are taking the original packaging, well, they're leaving the item in its original
packaging A, B, they're printing off the product description from wherever they bought it and
highlighting or circling the part that says cruise safe, cruise approved, non surge.
And for some people that's working, I don't know why.
I don't know if when they go, if they see it on the X-ray machine and they go to open
your bag and Jim has thoughtfully put a note on there that says, you know, don't take my
thing.
This is legit.
Did you like that?
That was like a round song.
Don't take my thing.
This is legit.
I think that I don't know if the security guards really heed that extra step, but it
can't hurt.
You really want to get that thing on the ship.
It can't hurt and we've never had any trouble.
Oh, Mr. Sousie, knock on particle board.
Well, yeah, I mean, you never know.
I think it's somewhat arbitrary is what I'm kind of getting at.
Yeah, ship by ship security.
I think it just depends on who's running security.
You know, somebody might just have a heavy hand and say, I don't know what it is.
I don't care.
I'm taking it.
Yeah, it looks like a power ship to me.
It's gone.
Yeah.
Okay.
With that said, this next part of the show are tips from our audience on how they cleverly
use said power strips because these are actually they're clever, but in some way they're kind
of comical to me.
They're like, wow, you are really very clever.
Listen to what Lori Scott does.
She says, I take a 25 foot power cord, non surge, of course.
Listen, here it comes that I plug in at the desk and using magnetic hooks, I drape it across
the ceiling and drop it down next to the bed, giving me both power and USB.
So Lori's got like this full system where she rigs it through magnetic hooks over the
ceiling.
Now this must be an old cruise line where you're like, there are no outlets by the bed
and you really need them, but Lori said it's working and she has got herself quite the
little charging station bedside.
I have to say there's nothing more irritating than not being able to charge your phone bedside
on a cruise.
So I like this tip.
I would say proceed with caution because I think that Lori's been lucky with her 25 foot
non surge strip based on what we're hearing from other people.
So Mr. Chris, what do you think?
Would you do that?
Would you rig a power cord over the top?
I don't think I would know.
No, you'd be too afraid to get that power cord confiscated.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know about that.
It's easier, I think for me to just put up with a house all of using a hub at the desk
or just put it at the vanity and deal with it, even though it's frustrating not to have
bedside charging, you just be like, eh, it's a little frustrating.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So now listen to this.
Dale White does the same thing for CPAP.
Dale White's like, look, there's no outlet nightstand.
I've got a CPAP machine.
I take magnetic hooks across the ceiling, run my extension cord from the outlet to my side
of the bed that way.
I don't have to break anything down in the morning.
So I think that's this is something people are doing guys.
Dale uses a 15 foot braided extension cord and takes it on board in his CPAP bag.
I think that's the key part right there is that Dale is putting it in his CPAP bag.
Like the security is going to see this is a medical device and this probably is needed.
So Dale, let us know if anything changes and if you get it confiscated in the future, but
hopefully that won't be the case.
So that's some clever use of power cords on cruises.
Again, proceed with caution based on our first tip, which is they're getting confiscated
more than ever.
So I'm here I am giving you like tips on how to how to do the really crazy stuff.
Okay.
So next up, let's talk about some packing and planning and even unpacking tips because I
think that packing and planning are a favorite topic for people for many people.
And I've got a really clever one here from Joe mock Joe.
I love this actually when he gets home from his cruise when he unpacks.
He actually just keeps his cruise essentials in the suitcase that he takes on cruises.
So he said he takes his magnets, his air spray.
I'm thinking like is it like room spray Joe is it like you know, like poo perry, you know,
like air spray, yeah, room freshener, chair straps for the towels, a stain remover, his
sink, sud packets.
He just leaves it all in the suitcase.
So while we might say, Oh, we're leaving ours in our packing cubes in our closet.
That's one way that we kind of keep things packed.
Joe takes it to the next level and he's just like, I'm just putting it right back in the
suitcase.
Why not?
I mean, why not Joe?
That's genius.
I mean, I've never talked about this before, but this comment of Joe's actually sparked in
the Facebook group.
I've had a bunch of direct messages from people after this saying, can you do some kind of
an episode on ways to store your cruise stuff?
So I'm brewing that up at the moment.
I'm trying to think of the best ways to store your cruise items.
I love Joe's simple tip of putting it back in your suitcase.
Other people I think have a dedicated closet in their home.
Some people use like plastic bins.
That's what I do.
I put everything in plastic bins and most of it just stays in my closet in a bin that
is designated for that kind of thing.
The packing cubes are in one bin.
The toiletries are in another bin.
The state room essentials are in another bin and it all just stays in there.
But I might have to start doing what Joe's doing and just leaving my suitcase packed.
I do love the idea of leaving your carry-on bag packed.
That I do.
My personal item, that bag that I slide over my rolling suitcase, a shoulder bag, a shoulder
bag, or a personal item, or even a backpack, I leave that in my closet with many of those
cruise essentials in it because I just don't need those items at home like my travel toothbrush
and my travel shampoo and all of that just stays in there.
Grab and go.
Grab and go.
Good one, Joe.
Brenda Beretti has a famous system that she uses to prepare for her vacation for her family.
Brenda has a husband and two boys and here is what she does to get prepared.
She said when she's preparing to pack, she uses the large lined sticky notes to write
out each day they're on vacation and what they're doing that day.
She lays them out on the bed and an outfit goes down for each day for each member of
the family and she said it helps them to not over pack but makes sure that they don't
miss anything.
Brenda has sworn by this methodology for many years and has been doing this for many cruises
despite her husband giving her a hard time about it.
John.
I love this.
Brenda, I've seen pictures of it.
It's really genius.
She takes the really big sticky notes and then she writes out like Monday CosML or Monday
CosML Beach Day type thing and she lays it on the bed and then everybody's outfit gets
stacked next to it.
This is genius because that way you don't end up with things in your closet on the ship
that were not thoughtfully considered.
While Brenda might be working a little bit harder at the beginning of her cruise and doing
things a little bit more scientifically, in the end she actually ends up with a clothing
for her and for her boys and for her husband that she really needs instead of having seven
dresses when she really could have used four pair of shorts.
This is something that I admire about Brenda and that I need to do more of because even
though I kind of set outfits aside, I don't get this granular and I really love this tip.
If anyone's looking for an advanced packing strategy, there it is but it's also very basic
because it starts with sticky notes.
Sticky notes are like those of us who have type A personalities, we love our sticky notes
and I'm one of Brenda's people with that.
I love sticky notes.
They make me feel good.
Michelle Parkin to Groot does something similar.
She actually creates a grid and plans out the outfits that she's going to wear for that
day.
Not only does Michelle use a grid, and I'm thinking she means probably like an Excel grid or some
kind of a doc, but she always throws in an extra outfit in case there's spillage.
I think that Michelle's leading us into our next tip, which is a genius one.
I really loved that this tip came in because at Groot's tip CV, we're always talking about
packing light and carry on only, but there is definitely, there's something to be said
for allowing yourself to do what Michelle said and that is like to throw that extra outfit
in.
G for Nossier, and please forgive me if I'm pronouncing your name wrong, said something
that I thought was really nice.
G said, it's okay to pack a few extras as long as they don't weigh much.
Or it's a cruise where you want to shine.
You don't have to go all week and against these are G's words.
You don't have to go all week with that one necklace or that one clutch.
Add a few more clutches to jazz up your evening.
Add a few more jeweled sparkly necklaces or accessories for formal night.
Add some more quality jewelry.
They're not heavy, but it makes you look and feel good.
So I love that G said like, look, accessories.
Your accessories aren't going to push you over the edge with suitcase space.
That is genius because you can maybe re-wear a dress but have a different statement necklace
that you picked up.
So good one G.
I love that.
All right, we're going to move on Mr. Cruise's TV and just talk a little bit about planning.
Like what do people do before they're cruise that stands out and that's really super smart
and helps them to get ready.
And I love this one from Karen Clay.
Karen actually said that they recommend a YouTube channel.
And I love this YouTube channel and I got to meet the person who runs it.
And this is the Har Travel website.
Har is spelled H-A-R-R and Danny who owns Har Travel is a travel agent.
And he is famous in the industry for every time he goes on a ship, he takes someone with
him like an assistant or a team member.
And he does as many state room tours as he can, as many ship tours.
He narrates the ship tours at an expert level.
And well, there's so much stuff on YouTube these days guys, right?
Like there's good quality stuff out there and then there's bad quality stuff out there.
And there's everything in between.
It's so nice to have a website or a YouTube channel like Har Travel where this is just
what they do.
They do ship tours, they do state room tours.
And you know you're going to have like a massive library of them and it's great.
So Karen Clay, thank you so much.
Danny is a sweetheart by the way and does a really good business as a travel agent as
well.
And as a five foot zero young lady or not so young lady, I will be 50 this year.
I can tell you, Danny is so tall when I met him on Navigator of the Seas.
I think it was Navigator.
I was like, dude, you are so tall.
He's tall.
So if you ever meet him in person, you'll see what I mean, but he's a sweetie and he does
a great job.
So for cabin tours, ship tours, make sure that you are subscribed to Har Travel and Danny
if you're listening.
Another planning tip, this is a genius one and this is again, this comes from the old
school.
We probably should have been doing this forever, but it's way more important in 2023 than it
ever was.
And this one comes from Matt is our Humphreys and that's just simple.
Always, always come into your port the day before if you're flying in.
If not the day before, two days before.
Really these days, I think the advice is as early as you can get there because we all
know that the airlines are still experiencing delays, cancellations and issues.
And you really stand to have a ruined first day or even potentially a ruined vacation
if you miss that cruise.
So make it a habit.
Get into that port the day before, a couple of days before if you can and enjoy yourself.
Relax.
Take a little bit more time if you can.
Now the other thing that I would say about this is I get it.
I have limited amount of vacation time you guys every year and this is not easy for me.
Staying late or arriving early to a port is absolutely not easy.
So I understand that one of the ways that we try to leverage this in our family is we'll
travel over a three day weekend.
So like Memorial Day, Labor Day, they give you a free vacation day off of work.
And those cruises can sometimes be affordable.
They're not always the most expensive.
They're not always priced like a holiday cruise.
So if you're struggling with time off work and maybe you want to just have an extra day,
think about how to stretch a couple of weekends together for your trip and leverage a three
day weekend to get an extra free vacation day from work.
That's one way of doing it.
All right.
So Paul, Paul Simcic said that when he's going to take a cruise on a new ship or checking
out a new port, he'll join the Facebook group or the cruise critic group for a similar
cruise that's about, here's the clever part of the tip guys.
He doesn't join his own rule call.
Well he does, but he also joins the group that's about a month before his scheduled
cruise.
So if his cruise is in June, he's going in there and he's getting into the groups for
the May voyages because what he said is that he is going to peep on all of their comments,
right?
All the comments, he's going to find out if those people had any challenges on their
cruise.
Is there an itinerary issue?
Was there a problem with the ship?
Was one of the restaurants always crowded?
And Paul said that this helps him greatly with the preparation and enjoyment of what's
available to experience.
It's like he's getting a sneak peek.
Isn't that a smart one, Mr. Cruise, this TV?
Very smart.
Isn't that, I mean, I just love this tip because we've talked about this many times
before joining your own Facebook group or cruise critic role call is smart, but why
not join one?
And usually you're allowed to.
This isn't really against the rules.
Get in there and spy on what everybody else is doing and get some ideas.
I think it's a very innocent thing to do and it's a smart thing to do.
Another planning tip, Stacey Yarsoulik says that when she's traveling with multifamily,
so if you're going on a multifamily cruise, you know, maybe you're taking some friends,
make an agenda, even a super basic agenda.
Put the information on there like your pre hotel address, specialty dining, ports of call.
She said she puts room numbers for everyone on there as well and it helps her to keep
organized and she hands them out to everyone before the cruise.
I love this tip, Stacey.
Thank you so much for thinking about it.
You could laminate them, write, print them off, laminate them, make them pretty or you
can just keep it really, really simple.
All right.
Now Mr. Cruise, we're on the ship.
We're like, it's on board time.
It's time for our listener tips for once you're on board.
What are some clever things that our audience says that you can do in 2023 to make your
cruise better?
First one is from our longtime friend PJ Gustafson.
PJ has the best tip.
Now this is not possible in every cruise line, but PJ said that the showers in the spas and
fitness center locker rooms are typically double the size of the ones in your state room and
generally they're available to all passengers.
You don't need a spa pass or a massage booked to use them.
Now not all lockers are accessible to the public on a cruise ship.
Because you have to go in and you have to have gotten a treatment and then you get access.
But most of the time they are part of the restroom.
So right when you walk into the spa or the spa salon and fitness center greeting area,
generally speaking, right there off of the lobby are the restrooms.
Within those restrooms are the lockers and the showers that are available for public use.
Now PJ said, I didn't say this.
PJ said this.
Talking with people about it, they said that this is particularly good if you are a fluffy
cruiser and you need a little more space in the shower and you're like, look my room
shower has got one of those horrible curtains in it and stick into my body or you just want
more space.
So PJ, thank you so much.
This is exactly the kind of tip that we were looking for.
It's clever.
It's timely.
It's cool.
It's different and not everybody knows about this.
Mr. Hrussey TV, I think we've done that before.
We've taken showers in the locker rooms.
I think it was because we had just used like the sauna or something.
But I remember thinking on one ship that it was like, this is posh.
I didn't even have to take my own shampoo.
Sometimes there's even shampoo in there.
Is it because we had a spa package?
I don't think so.
I don't think it was on carnival panorama.
I think it was like an older ship.
I don't remember which one though.
But it's true.
The showers are really nice and it's a great idea.
And also PJ happens to travel with a family.
So he has two little girls and a wife.
And so of course, you have limited space when you only have one bathroom and a cabin.
After a while, you're like, okay, not, you know, only one person can be showering at
once.
And so you have to get creative.
Okay.
Another fun tip for when you're on board comes from Lori Hornbacher.
Hello, Lori.
Lori said if you're an early riser or even if you're not an early riser, get up on deck
to watch the ship pulling into port.
Now she doesn't mean like necessarily out on your balcony.
Lori is talking about like going up to the very, very top of the cruise ship.
And when she cruises with Princess, what she does is she watches them raise the flags.
I think that's so cool and so beautiful.
I remember doing that when we were on our cruise in Asia and it was very, it's very
moving to watch them raise the flags.
She said that.
They also have additional flags beyond just a country flag that has meaning up on the
top of the ship.
And on Lori's last cruise, they flew a flag indicating that they had quarantined passengers
on board but had received clearance to disembark other passengers.
So each of these flags was raised on signal from the bridge.
It's amazing.
We don't think about these things, but like just the fact that there's all these flags
of significance is what makes cruising so incredibly unique.
So go view this.
If you're on Princess, you're going to see that it's something that you can do in the
mornings and I think it's probably kind of at the crack of dawn as you're pulling into
port but what a beautiful idea.
It's a good one.
All right.
Another very clever tip from Leslie Cartlidge for your morning.
And this is so good.
I love this.
This is like a one sentence tip that's so awesome.
Leslie says use room service for continental breakfast as your alarm clock.
Super smart.
So you take that room service card, right?
And you select the time you want them to come and you just know that that person's going
to come knocking on your door with your coffee and your pastries and your fruit and your
yogurt or whatever.
And that can be your alarm clock.
We've done this on short excursion days and it works really well.
I wouldn't I'd say if you need a precise alarm clock, maybe not to use it.
But within 30 minute window of time, I think you should probably be okay.
All right.
Let's move into some tips on dining and bars and things like this.
Angie Kay said that with specialty coffee on the last few cruises she was on, there tended
to be a really big line at the main coffee bar.
So what they did is they found another venue that served coffee with no line at all.
So on Carnival Panorama, this was in the Havana bar, which was really close to the very busy
coffee bar.
So Angie's like, look, I mean, we just walk a few more steps and you don't have to wait
in this line.
Angie was also on Holland America's Eurodam and she found that the pinnacle bar on Holland
America was in a completely different area from the crow's nest, which is the popular
one, but had a very, a very minimal line.
So that was pretty, that's pretty cool.
Angie, thank you.
Again, these are the specific cruise tips that we rely on our audience for and that we super,
super love.
All right.
Speaking of coffee, Mr. Cruise, Steve, I have a brand new guarantee you have never heard
this cruise tip before.
Oh, exciting.
And it's about coffee.
Speaking of coffee, right?
F Scott Lawrence says he brings this thing called an aero press coffee maker on their cruises
when they don't get the drink package.
Now, Scott F Scott Lawrence is a big coffee drinker.
He says a coffee snob hates waiting in line.
So it's like this little French press.
So what F Scott does is goes and gets hot water from the buffet, makes their own coffee
and this saves them hundreds of dollars.
Now this little French press, it's like, it looks like a little tiny cup with a French
press on top.
It doesn't have a heating element, so it's not going to get taken away.
And I popped one into our Amazon store for you guys because I had to look this up when
F Scott Lawrence made the recommendation.
I was like, what is this thing, this aero press?
And it is so cool, you guys.
So if you go to our web page or Amazon page, Amazon.com forward slash shop forward slash
cruise tips TV.
I have added the item to our storefront and it's I want to say it's somewhere around maybe
$30, it's $31 and it kind of looks like a cross between like, it's like the piece where you
push the food into your food processor.
It has like a plastic thing across the top and a coffee mug.
It's kind of hard to explain, but it's like it almost looks like a little pump and you
just put the water in there and you take your own grounds and for 31 bucks, you've got a
super fancy little portable aero press that is very packable, you'll have coffee in like
one minute and it's really easy to clean up.
So thank you very much for that clever tip.
I love that.
That was something I've never heard before.
So it's in our store and I put it in the state room essentials section.
Yeah, Mr. Cruise Sub-Sewee found an article where we talked about a French press cup,
it was a coffee mug one time.
But this one, Mr. Cruise Sub-Sewee looks like this.
So it's more like, oh shoot, I just navigated away from it.
He was showing me the coffee mug that we used a few years ago that had a, it was a French
press coffee mug combination, but this one looks like that.
You see it?
I flipped my laptop around probably making a bunch of thumpin' noise over here.
But anyway, you guys can find that in the state room essentials store right next to all
the power strips in USB-O's, right?
Oh my gosh, so good one, F Scott Lawrence, thank you.
All right, let's talk about a dining tip from Trixie.
This one's kind of a reminder.
We've heard this tip before, but Trixie wants to remind you guys that if you're curious
about a dish, like an entree in the main dining room, but you don't want to commit to the
unknown or you're torn between two dishes, ask if one of them can be served as an appetizer
portion.
This might be hard for them to do with something like a hamburger, but with like a pasta dish
or something like that, they might be able to bring you a smaller portion.
So Trixie said, look, sometimes I don't want to order two full-size entrees.
It seems wasteful, I don't want to do that, but I want to try it.
So ask them, Trixie recommended this for things like risotto, pasta, stuff like that.
That's a really good one.
Okay, Kevin Fadgen said that just a friendly reminder that on the first night or two in
the steakhouse on a carnival cruise line, you can get 50% off bottles of wine.
I did not know this.
I knew that you, I thought you could get a free bottle of wine with dinner in the steakhouse.
So ask about the wine specials and also know you guys that Kevin wants to remind you that
you can take, you can buy a bottle of wine on day one and have it kept in the dining room
for the next night if you don't drink it all.
So these are things that as a first time cruiser, you might not know and you might just keep
buying a glass of wine, but if you want to save a little bit of money, it's more economical
to buy the bottle and have them take it back to you.
One more carnival cruise dining tip from Dale White Dale said, when you get your warm chocolate
melting cake on carnival, ask for it with two things on the side, ice cream, which it
should come with by the way.
It should automatically come with a little scoop ice cream, but also ask for peanut butter
because that sweet and salty combination per Dale and I can attest to this.
I have decadently enjoyed it myself.
Phenomenal, the peanut butter and the warm chocolate melting cake.
It's like fudgy peanut buttery goodness and the ice cream just, it's worth it and this
is coming from a girl who does not always do desserts.
I'm not going to say don't do desserts.
I don't always do desserts, but this is one I will save the calories for and it's worth
it.
All right.
Mr. Cruise of Stevie, we have three more bonus tips from our audience and I save these to
the end because I want them to be impactful and I think it's really important that we
share this message with people.
The first one comes from Charles and it has to do with the way that you treat the crew
and I think that the general idea here you guys is that in 2023, we've got to reinvent
the way that we think about the crew on cruises.
They are pulling double duty.
They're working their tails off, right?
And it's time to exercise massive amounts of kindness and generosity.
At least that's our philosophy here at CruiseTube Stevie.
If you're listening to this podcast, you are probably one of the people who agrees with
that statement.
Here's what Charles says.
This is clever.
Charles said, watch for a crew member in a public space on the ship who has one of the
most thankless jobs and surprise them with a tip.
I love that.
I think that that could be the person who is cleaning the bathroom.
That could be the person who is vacuuming the stairwell.
That might be rear room stirred off duty.
Who knows?
It could be someone sweeping the floor, right?
It could be someone that you know probably isn't in a normally a public facing role where
they're getting tips.
I love that.
Dale was coming to the party with the tips this time around.
Dale said bonus tip when dealing with guest services, please do it with a smile and even
tone and a kind word.
They have been yelled at all day and they deserve a little respect.
And then Dale said, like the old saying goes, you catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
Oh, it's so true.
I always feel so bad when I walk up to guest services.
I'm always thinking, oh my word.
What did you just deal with?
Or we walked up to you know, what did someone come up to do?
Remove their tips?
Yell about this or that?
And of course, that's where you're supposed to go when you have a problem.
Make no mistake.
You should be airing your complaints at guest services.
It's a perfectly appropriate thing to do, but not everyone does it with kindness.
So just a little reminder that it's a good idea to approach people with kindness, even
when something is going wrong.
Last tip.
Mr. Cruz tips TV is from Kelly Watson.
I love this one because Kelly has sort of summarized, I think, where we're at with cruising right
now.
Kelly says, when it comes to trying new activities, dressing the way you want or taking a chance
by doing something you didn't think you had the courage to do, just go for it.
Kelly said, there were so many things I didn't do pre shut down that I've had to wait two
years for it.
And now I'm loving cruising even more.
As others have said, be kind to the crew.
They're working even harder than they did before.
But yeah, it's kind of yolo, Kelly.
Right.
We're all like we worked hard for our crews dollars.
We went through a really difficult time where the travel industry was shut down.
And now when you get back out there, you have this new appreciation for it.
So embrace it.
Love it.
Do the things you want to do.
I love it.
Mr. Cruz, it's TV.
These were so fun.
I hope that everybody got some fresh new inspiration out of this episode and special thanks to everyone
on Facebook who pitched in.
If I didn't read your comment, or if I didn't read it on the air, I did read it and I grabbed
value from it.
We just couldn't possibly feature all of them, but I do appreciate you and I thank you so
much for taking the time.
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