The Joy of Cruising Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Hello, passionate cruisers! This is Paul and on this bonus episode The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Stanley & Lynette, (the Queen!) , creators of popular and growing LifeIsUsTV YouTube channel, Instagram platform, and Facebook Group. LifeIsUsTV is the 17th most-watched YouTube cruise channel with 100k subscribers. Feedspot lists Stanley & Lynette as...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Joanna Nell, bestselling author, medical doctor, and advocate for positive aging. Born and raised in UK, Joanne studied medicine at Cambridge and Oxford universities, then trained as a general practitioner in UK before emigrating to Australia with her husband and kids, where she lives today. It was an Australian...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am honored to welcome and bring to the listeners, Captain Albert, of Holland America Line. Captain Albert created and curates Captain Albert’s Website and Blog, described as “Ocean Liner History and Stories from the Sea, Past and Present. With an In-Depth focus on Holland America Line.” Captain Albert J. Schoonderbeek joined Holland Ame...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome two guests, a married couple, Vanessa and Jon Armstrong. Vanessa’s website opens to a close-up headshot which is inscribed, “Why is my face so big…?”  Right below that it says, “Vanessa likes to write about things. Sometimes she gets paid for it.” I suspect a sense of humor I am going to enjoy!  Her bio goes on t...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , it is my pleasure to welcome a special guest, Chef Rudi Sodamin, Princess Cruises' first Head of Culinary Arts, along with his role as Master Chef for Holland America Line (HAL). If you have cruised on HAL, Princess Cruises, or on Carnival Cruise Line’s Excel-class ships you may have been fortunate to have experienced Chef Rudi’s spe...

Send us Fan Mail We hope you all had a wonderful holiday, and we’d like to wish you a Happy New Year. This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, my wife Cheryl joins me to share our reflections of our just completed Christmas Cruise on MSC Meraviglia . Everyone who celebrates should sail a Christmas cruise. Put it on your bucket list—that’s an easier one to check off than some exotic destination. I...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Steve Kriese, creator of DCL Podcast, a podcast that covers all things Disney Cruise Lines, related Disney events and properties, and a smattering of general cruise matters. Yours truly benefitted from DCL Podcast’s coverage of general cruising; Steve invited me to my first-ever podcast as a guest after I publish...

Send us Fan Mail This is Paul and this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Bill Raffel now of Fort Lauderdale. I say now of Fort Lauderdale because when I wrote about Bill and his wife Rosie several years ago, they lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I wrote about Bill and Rosie’s story in my first cruising book, The Joy of Cruising amzn.to/2EAMddF , in a section called “Cru...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast Jenni Fielding, creator of the Cruise Mummy blog and just named winner of the UK Wave Award for Favourite Cruise Influencer . I featured Cruise Mummy in Cruising Interrupted amzn.to/3seFU8y in a section called “Bloggers: Cruise Community Champions.” I also was fortunate to host Jenni on a previous episode of The Jo...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Mark and Leanne Weston of Queensland Australia. I wrote about Mark and Leanne’s story in my first cruising book, The Joy of Cruising , in a section called “Cruisers Like You and Me...Sort Of.” This section, a reader favorite that has been retained in each book of The Joy of Cruising Trilogy , follows the theme of...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Peter Antonucci . It's fun to welcome a guest with whom I share so much in common: Peter is from New York—I’m from New York; Peter graduated from the University of Rochester in 1982—I graduated from the University of Rochester in 1980; Peter authored a trilogy about life on the ocean—I authored a trilogy abo...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Judi Cohen , known in the cruise community as Traveling Judi. I featured Traveling Judi in my second cruising book, Cruising Interrupted  amzn.to/3seFU8y in a section called “ Cruisers Like You and Me... Sort Of .” Traveling Judi is a fervent world cruiser with a penchant for smaller, and even tiny ships relative...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, Roland and Emma , a couple I met by happenstance and who immediately became travel role models of mine! I was browsing Melanin At Sea, the influential 87,000-member Facebook affinity group created by friends of the show and global cruise personalities A Rich and Jazzy Life. Roland, a content creator, and professio...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am delighted to welcome to The Joy of Cruising Podcast Iris MacBeath creator of the blog Life of Iris . Iris is a longtime staff member for Holland America Line, most recently as a Media Manager. I wrote the story of Life of Iris in the just-released The Joy of Cruising Again amzn.to/3lAfyON in a section called “Shiplife,” which followed the career of four past and pre...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Christine Zimmer, a voyager of distinction. No, she is not royalty, a celebrity, a Cruise Ship Godmother, or anything like that. She hasn’t cruised hundreds of times. She is a cruiser just like you and me…well, sort of. I wrote about Chris in my second cruising book, Cruising Interrupted amzn.to/3seFU8y in the fe...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, Adrienne and Terrence Bibb, the creators of the popular Addy and Terry . blog and YouTube channel. Addy has been in the hospitality industry for over 15 years as a professional chef but has branched off to go further into another realm of the hospitality industry, travel. Terry is a top radio executive with I Hear...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Kandes Bregman of Sea of Glamour. The name combines Kandes’ love of the sea with hints of her past life as a beauty pageant winner. I wrote about the former Mrs. Southwest and Holland America Line super cruiser in my second cruising book, Cruising Interrupted amzn.to/3seFU8y in a section called “Cruisers Like You...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast Scott and Tom, creators of Vitamin Sea UK.  Their credo is ‘Sailing the seven seas (and rivers), two Hawaiian shirts at a time. We're here to show that there's a cruise line for everyone, shattering the image of what some believe cruising is. We #ChooseCruise to embrace new cultures, new food, try new exp...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Donna K. Philips. I wrote about Donna in my new release The Joy of Cruising Again in a section called ‘The Fun ships,’ where I featured Donna’s dad, the cruise industry, and carnival cruise line food and beverage giant Everette Daniel Phillips, in a chapter titled ‘Hot, Hot, Hot: Donna K. Phillips Remembers Her F...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome a special guest. In The Joy of Cruising books, all the passionate cruisers I write about are special—whether they are “ordinary” cruisers with extraordinary stories, to celebrities, Grammy winners/nominees, a Hall of Famer, to global cruise personalities. Today I am honored to welcome Peter Knego, a cruise person...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome Doris Vasconcellos-Bernstein and Doug Bernstein this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast . I wrote about the Florida couple in my second cruising book, Cruising Interrupted, in a feature called “Trapped In Paradise.” Interestingly, when I set out to write the follow-up to The Joy of Cruising , originally titled More Joy of Cruising , I neither knew Doris...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast Dan and Jay, creators of the UK-based cruise blog and YouTube channel, S ail Away With Dan and Jay . Let me set the stage by pointing out that the W ave Awards is the UK cruise industry’s premier award; included are award categories for cruise lines, ships, travel agencies, and most pertinent to The Joy of Cruising...

Send us Fan Mail This is Paul and this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome my good friends, Joan and Jim Sloan, of CouplesTravel .  I wrote about Joan and Jim in my first cruising book, The Joy of Cruising amzn.to/2EAMddF in a section called “Cuba Cruising” which featured three very different couples sharing their perspectives on a cruise to Cuba. The Sloan’s feature wa...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast Gavin and Luke, creators of the UK-based cruise blog and YouTube channel, Cruise Monkeys . Let me set the stage by pointing out The Wave Awards is the UK cruise industry’s premier award; included are award categories for cruise lines, ships, travel agencies, and most pertinent to The Joy of Cruising Podcast — Favor...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Jason Leppert aka the Captain, of Popular Cruising. I wrote about Jason’s story in my first cruising book, The Joy of Cruising , in a section called "Cruise Bloggers: The Readers’ Choice," which featured finalists and winners in the 10Best Readers’ Choice New Media Award for Best Cruise Blogger , sponso...