The Joy of Cruising Podcast

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome back to The Joy of Cruising Podcast, The Jenn Danielle Experience . Jennifer is a social media influencer, and solo travel content creator. The Joy of Cruising Podcast first welcomed Jennifer back on episode 23 in June, when she was the first guest on The Joy of Cruising Podcast specifically to chat about the rapidly growing, critically acclaimed Virgin V...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Gary Bembridge, the embodiment of the successful Tips For Travellers blog, podcast, and most notably, YouTube channel. Oh c’mon, ‘successful’ is an understatement. With 400,000 followers, and over a 140 million views, Tips For Travellers is the world’s leading cruise channel…by far.   I featured Gary and Tips For...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, Jamie Robins, creator of Travel Blog Jamie , a blog and YouTube channel. 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 this The Joy of Cruising Podcast episode— Favorite C...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome Christine Beehler this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast . I wrote about Chris in my second cruising book, Cruising Interrupted, in a section called “More Joy of Cruising,” which was originally the title of the follow-up to The Joy of Cruising . Then the pandemic happened.    I first encountered Chris when we became kindred spirits, so to speak. We were...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , Laura Pedlar, creator of Cruise Lifestyle Blog . I got to know Laura a few years ago when I featured Cruise Lifestyle in my second cruising book, Cruising Interrupted amzn.to/3seFU8y , in a section called “Bloggers: Cruise Community Champions. When I started writing Laura’s story she was coming off a great 2019–a...

Send us Fan Mail Hello, passionate cruisers! This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Steph, the creator of one of the top cruise blogs from the United Kingdom, Cruise With Amber . Steph and Cruise With Amber were featured in my new release The Joy of Cruising Again in a section called Blogger, Vloggers, and Content Creators. Cruise With Amber was created by Steph just...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Jorge Solano. I’ve previously featured a Cruise Director, Holland America Line’s former top CD Jason Venner on episode #26. And, I have featured a cruise ship comedian, Carnival’s thought-provoking, hilarious Billy D. Washington on episode #8.   Jorge Solano can represent the perspective of both a Cruise Director...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am delighted to welcome to The Joy of Cruising Podcast Dave Monk, the embodiment of the blog Shipmonk . Dave Monk is an award-winning cruise blogger and journalist who has written for the UK’s major publications. Dave created Shipmonk , the blog that cruise line executives, travel media, and passionate cruisers visit for up-to-date cruise industry news, ship reviews, a...

Send us Fan Mail On this bonus episode of The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome back to David & Stephanie , a married couple that performs as an intimate musical duo—David plays the guitar and sings, and Stephanie sings. In October of 2022, David & Stephanie attained their longtime goal of their first contract as cruise ship performers. They were assigned to Carnival Elat...

Send us Fan Mail "I’m Nick, and you guys are the Dream Team." One of the several catchlines belonging to our precocious guest. I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast ,16-year-old Nicholas Jackson, aka Nick Jay. Nick Jay is a content creator whose popular YouTube channel, and accompanying Instagram account Travels With Nick , mainly features Carnival Cruise Lin...

Send us Fan Mail On this first of two episodes of The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome David & Stephanie , a married couple that performs as an intimate musical duo—David plays the guitar and sings, and Stephanie sings. In October of 2022, David & Stephanie attained their longtime goal of their first contract as cruise ship performers. They were assigned to Carnival Elat...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Patricia Nicholson Yarbrough, founder of Festival at Sea , the nation’s oldest and most successful African-American cultural cruise. Patricia is also President, Blue World Travel in San Francisco.    In The Joy of Cruising amzn.to/3lAfyON I wrote extensively about theme cruising in a section called “Theme Cruisin...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Julie and Art of The Places Where We Go podcast and accompanying YouTube and blog. The Places Where We Go chronicles Julie and Art’s reflections of traveling throughout the world and across the US. Their mode of travel varies—cruises, land resorts, road trips, and hikes—and the places where they go are just as di...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome Captain Peter Bos to The Joy of Cruising Podcast this week . In a section called “Ship Life” in the just-released The Joy of Cruising Again amzn.to/3lAfyON I tried to provide readers a sense of what life onboard a cruise ship was like for crew, staff and officers, and wrote about several past and present cruise line employees. I am honored Captain Peter B...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, Nancy and Robert (Dale) Houchens. I found out about Nancy and Dale when I read articles about them in both USA Today and Miami Herald . The Houchens retired in 2015 to a life—planned well before their last day at work—of living on cruise ships. I wrote a feature about the Houchens, Living On Cruise Ships in my new...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week to The Joy of Cruising Podcast, Ben and David of the massively successful Cruise with Ben and David. With 200,000 followers on YouTube and over 500 videos, only since starting the channel in 2015, landing Cruise with Ben and David as the #3 cruise channel in their native UK, and #6 worldwide. To garner those kinds of numbers in that time means B...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast  Ken Byrne, known to his legion of fans who cruise on Carnival Cruise Line as The Singing Maître D’. I had the pleasure of writing about Ken in my new book, The Joy of Cruising Again, in a section call Ship Life, which was intended to provide a perspective of life onboard cruise ships through the eyes of current an...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Dennis Littley, better known as Chef Dennis to his prodigious fan base— 830,000 followers on his Facebook account, A Culinary Journey with Chef Dennis , 73,000 on Twitter and 72,000 on his Instagram accounts Ask Chef Dennis & Chef Dennis Travels. Chef Dennis was featuredin my second cruising book, Cruising In...

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to welcome this week for a special Bonus Episode on The Joy of Cruising Podcast, Matt Theriault, the embodiment of Cruise Life Matt, a blog, YouTube channel, and an Instagram account comprised of stunning images of ships . It was on Instagram that Matt first caught my attention. His IG feed is comprised almost exclusively of cruise ship photography—mostly stunning d...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Jenni Fielding, creator of the Cruise Mummy blog. I featured Cruise Mummy in Cruising Interrupted   amzn.to/3seFU8y in a section called “Bloggers: Cruise Community Champions . ” Jenni describes herself thusly, “ I’m a 38-year-old mum of two from Bolton, UK. I first developed my cruise addiction when we booked a h...

Send us Fan Mail This week The Joy of Cruising Podcast , welcomes 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, or “Googleable” individuals such as TV personalities, Grammy winners and nominees, a Hall of Famer, and UK’s first non-royal, non-celebrity cruise ship Godmother. Toda...

Send us Fan Mail This week The Joy of Cruising Podcast is delighted to welcome Scott Eddy. I wrote about Scott in Cruising Interrupted   amzn.to/3seFU8y in a section called "The Globetrotters." And a globetrotter Scott is, whether by land or sea or literally—it’s on his website and social media: Innovator—Trendsetter—Globetrotter. And, Scott is the television host for the first travel se...

Send us Fan Mail This week on The Joy of Cruising Podcast , I am delighted to welcome Mikkel and Dan Woodruff, known in the cruise blogosphere as Sometimes Sailing . Specializing in small ship sailing and ship within-a-ship concepts such as Celebrity Cruises The Retreat, Norwegian Haven, and Princess MedallionClass , Sometimes Sailing is featured in my new release, The Joy Of Cruising Again amzn.t...

Send us Fan Mail This week The Joy of Cruising Podcast is delighted to welcome Paul and Carole of Paul  and Carole Love to Travel , a blog and accompanying YouTube channel, one of the leading UK cruise sources. I like to say to the cruise personalities I write about in the The Joy of Cruising books that we are forever connected—many years from now their friends and relatives will be able to read a...

Send us Fan Mail This week The Joy of Cruising Podcast is delighted to welcome MC Extraordinaire Jason Venner. In a section called "Specialty Cruising: Fun and Quirky ," I wrote about Jason in Cruising Interrupted — Cruise Entertainment Producer, Director, Creator, MC Extraordinaire! Jason Venner has spent essentially his entire adult life in the cruise world, mostly in a variety of crui...