The Joy of Cruising Podcast

Send us Fan Mail This week The Joy of Cruising Podcast is delighted to welcome Scott Sanders, creator of The Disney Cruise Line Blog . My first involvement with Scott was when I featured him in The Joy of Cruising in a section called “Cruise Bloggers: The Reader’s Choice ” comprised of finalists and winners in the 10best Readers’ Choice Best Cruise Blogger, sponsored by USA Today. Scott won for Th...

Send us Fan Mail This week The Joy of Cruising Podcast  is delighted to welcome Matt Hochberg, creator of the Royal Caribbean Blog . My first direct involvement with Matt was when I featured him in The Joy of Cruising in a section called “Cruise Bloggers: The Readers’ Choice ” comprised of finalists and winners in the 10best Readers’ Choice Best Cruise Blogger, sponsored by USA Today. Matt won for...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome to The Joy of Cruising Podcast, The Jenn Danielle , who I could refer to as a social media star, leading solo travel content creator, influencer, brand ambassador, or vlogger! I’ll refer to her as Jennifer, and ask her to share her insight into a topic of immense curiosity to passionate cruisers like our listeners: critically acclaimed, rapidly growing, a...

Send us Fan Mail Today on The Joy of Cruising Podcast I am delighted to welcome Donald and Heidi Bucolo, the creators of the popular and highly influential E at Sleep Cruise , an award-winning blog. Eat Sleep Cruise was selected by Porthole Cruise Magazine to its list of the top 10 Cruise Influencers of 2019. Eat Sleep Cruise has been quoted regularly in places like Forbes, CNBC, AARP  magazine, a...

Send us Fan Mail On this bonus episode of The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Stephanie and her mom, Marineda.  A few weeks ago I did a fun episode called The Godmother and referred to it as a modern-day fairy tale. Well, I just learned of another modern-day fairy tale—a sweet Mother's Day oriented tale that I would have found compelling in and of itself. What made it extr...

Send us Fan Mail The Joy of Cruising Podcast welcomes to this week's episode, Neil Gregory who kept, and continues to update a diary of his time working as a videographer  on several ships for Princess Cruises . His story is real, raucous and laugh-out-loud funny!  Cruise Ship Diaries was featured in the just released The Joy of Cruising Again amzn.to/3lAfyON This podcast episode pertains to...

Send us Fan Mail On this bonus episode of The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome James and Rebecca, who are the embodiment of Cameo Rascale, internationally acclaimed circus variety act dazzling audiences across the globe! We experienced this dynamic husband and wife duo performing exciting acrobatics, mesmerising juggling and quick-witted comedy on our recent bucket list 16-day c...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Marcus Adams of the website Sparkx . Marcus is a 30-something leading UK-based blogger and travel writer who is passionate about cruising. Marcus is a sought-after cruise expert, and he writes for and contributes to several publications and websites in UK and the USA, such as Porthole Cruise Magazine, Huffington...

Send us Fan Mail Fire & Ice refers to our late April/early May 16-day cruise on Norwegian Spirit to the dual bucket list destinations of the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska. This episode shares our reflections of this unique cruise. Would we recommend it?  I learned of this cruise several months ago when I interviewed Professor Cruise , a leading cruise blogger and Alaska expert, for a feature I w...

Send us Fan Mail This week on T he Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Sam and Brian of DCL Duo podcast. Their impressive website describes them as follows: "The DCL Duo podcast is a Disney Cruise Line-focused podcast, with occasional detours into general cruising and Disney topics. We’re fans of the Disney parks, Adventures By Disney, Run Disney and Disney Vacation Club.&quot...

Send us Fan Mail The Joy of Cruising Podcast is delighted to welcome Rich and Jasmine Ranmarine, the creators of one of the most popular YouTube channels in the world, A Rich and Jazzy Life , along with their highly influential private Facebook group, the 57,000 member Melanin At Sea . A Rich and Jazzy Life was featured in my new book The Joy of Cruising Podcast Again in a section called The Cruis...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Elizabeth Hill. Two queens, a convicted felon, and a schoolteacher board a cruise ship.... Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. This is no joke, however; these four individuals are, respectively, the Queen of England, Queen Latifa, the iconic, and Snoops good friend, Martha Stewart, and my guest today Elizabe...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Emma, of Emma Cruises a blog and accompanying YouTube channel, which is one of the most popular cruise channels worldwide. As mentioned, I like to say to the cruise personalities I write about in the books that we are forever connected—many years from now their friends and relatives will be able to read about the...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy Of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Sarah, known in the cruise blogosphere as Professor Cruise . And yes, she really is a professor (she has a PhD in psychology.) Sarah no longer teaches for a university—but she is still holding class online—cruisers are her students. Check her blog out because I guarantee you’ll learn an lot about cruising in gene...

Send us Fan Mail This week The Joy of Cruising Podcast  is honored to welcome Linda Johnson of Card Player Cruises, a leading theme cruise operator that for the past 30 years has specialized in partial- and full-ship chartered poker cruises. Card Player Cruises has hosted over 200 poker cruises and well over 50,000 passengers--from beginners to a virtual who's who of professional poker.  Lind...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Lucy Williams. Lucy was in The Joy of Cruising in a section called The Influencers, as The Traveling Wife Cruising Around the World . As you might expect, my interest was immediately piqued when I came across her catchily titled blog. It turned out that The Traveling Wife Cruising Around the World was much more t...

Send us Fan Mail Dana Freeman of Dana Freeman Travels, is Vermont-based. Dana got her start in travel focusing on Vermont area staycations. Today, Dana is a world traveler in every sense—she is one of several featured in The Joy of Cruising Trilogy who transcend cruising—travel icons who cruise. When Dana cruises, she focuses on small ship and luxury cruising. Dana is a highly demanded freelance t...

Send us Fan Mail On this bonus episode of The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Comedian Billy D. Washington. Those of you who have cruised Carnival, specifically the beautiful new Mardi Gras or Celebration have likely seen him late-night in Punchliners, or with your kids at the family-friendly show. We took my granddaughter on Mardi Gras for her 13th birthday; we watched Billy D...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast I am delighted to welcome The Legendary Manny Kellough. Legendary? At 17 Manny played drums with Ray Charles; later Barry White, Carmen McCrae, The Main Ingredient, Freddie Hubbard, The Rolling Stones (Goat's Head Soup Tour), Quincy Jones (Sanford & Son Theme Song), Billy Preston (Grammy, and 4 gold records) and Larry Graham and Gr...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome John Roberts the embodiment of In The Loop Travel . I featured John and In The Loop Travel in Cruising Interrupted in a section called The Globetrotters, which focused on world travelers who transcend cruising. John is a consummate cruiser, however. He has sailed 120 cruises and has a wide breadth of cruising exp...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Joe Church, a truly amazing story and reader favorite. In The Joy of Cruising. I dubbed Joe the Marathoner of the Seas , and told his unique story of how 70-something Joe runs a marathon distance, 26.2 miles, on every Royal Caribbean ship—beginning with Liberty of the Seas in 2008, not only his first marathon dis...

Send us Fan Mail Q uirky Cruise was featured in C ruising Interrupted in a section called “Specialty Cruising: Fun and Quirky.” I have had conversations with cruisers who have gone on over one hundred cruises but have never experienced a cruise on a non-traditional cruise ship; that is, a small ship designed to hold 300 or fewer passengers; some low double digits, even single digits! These small s...

Send us Fan Mail The Joy of Cruising Podcast welcomes contemporary jazz star Vincent Ingala to the show. One of the fastest emerging contemporary jazz recording artists in recent history, multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer, Vincent Ingala has blasted into an exciting stratosphere.  Still in his twenties, the charismatic saxophonist has been named Billboard Smooth Jazz Artist of the Year...

Send us Fan Mail A conversation with Ilana of Life Well Cruised, a massively successful cruise blog, YouTube channel, and influential FaceBook community. Life Well Cruised was featured in the second book of The Joy of Cruising Trilogy—Cruising Interrupted www.amazon.com/Cruising-Interrupted-follow-up-formerly-known/dp/1098344650/ in the section, Bloggers:  Cruise Community Champions. Ilana and Lif...

Send us Fan Mail Sheri of Cruise Tips TV is one of the most popular cruise influencers and content creators on social media, and is often called upon to represent the perspective of cruisers in mainstream media. Cruise Tips TV was featured in both The Joy of Cruising amzn.to/2EAMddF and Cruising Interrupted amzn.to/3seFU8y , and when I wanted to get quotes to include in the new book, The Joy of Cr...