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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous podcast
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
Welcome back to the Almost Fi podcast. It's been here
and Ashley is as well. Here today Hi Ashley, Hi,
We're gonna.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Talk about cruise, which is so exciting because I love cruises.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
As you know.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
There is a big tease this week Ashley on social
media that The Bachelor posted saying they had a big
announcement that was going to change everything. Uh, and now
we know what it is. It's the first ever Bachelor
Nation vacation at sea, Ashley. I think fans are going
to be excited. I don't know if this is what
they were expecting. I think they were expecting, like the
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Bachelor to be announced. So I think a cruise ship
is gonna be like whoa kind of a switch to
ahead and you know, like a yeah, a quick turn
of I didn't expect to see a Bachelor cruise getting
announced this week. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And this is on Norwegian's Joy and I I'm just assuming,
I don't know the capacity that we're actually going to
have a guest on with us in a second, Darby
Moehler and she will be answering questions like that. But
it's going to be very limited, so are hardcore, you
better freaking be on your computer the day that booking starts.
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I am a fan of obviously New Kids on the
Block and Backshe Boys, and they've both done cruises, and
I look think it looks like the best time for
somebody that is a hardcore fan. I actually can't believe
that I haven't been on a New Kids or Backs
Your Boys cruise. But like, if you are bachelor obsessed,
this is going to be so much fun for you
because we have huge talent confirmed already, Jesse Palmer Wells
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and Hannah They both are going to be in.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
The host role.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Jesse will be Master of Ceremonies they're calling it, and
then Hannah and Wells will be respectively in their roles
for Paradise their hosts. Then we also have Kelsey Anderson
and Joey g We also have Tyler Cameron who will
be on the ship with Hannah Brown. And don't tell
me that like you didn't think about that one when
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he saw the cast announcement.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
There she's happily married.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
Tyler is absolutely in a happy relationship. They are friends,
but like to see the two of them together, you know,
I understand charging big bucks for that.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Everybody's favorite.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Jill Chen is going to be there, Sean and Catherine,
they're huge, Kathy Schwartz, Joan and Chuck will be there,
Katie and Zach and Jerdy, Jerdy and Dotton.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
Yeah. Here's the details. This cruise will set sail November
sixteenth through the twentieth, twenty twenty six, so you have
your time. It's over a year out. Location is going
to be out of Miami to Porto Plata, Dominican Republic.
So Norwegian cruz Line ship. It's called the Joy. You
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can look it up. Four day and fortnight with the
most dramatic reality dating show alums you've ever come to
know and love. We don't know everything about this, but
we know somebody that does. We have a guest today,
as Ashley mentioned, coming on the show. Let's welcome her in.
Her name is Darby, and she is representing the Cruise
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line and the cruise ship and she will tell us
everything we need to know about this exclusive, dramatic, incredible experience. Hi, Darby, welcome,
Thank you so Darby. This big Bachelor announcement was just made.
Listeners of this podcast are excited to hear more of
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the details. I know you have some information on the
ship and what maybe attendees can expect to experience if
they sign up for this cruise ship. Can you run
us through kind of the high level details.
Speaker 5 (03:55):
Yeah, absolutely so if we're just looking at the ship herself,
she's run seventeen hundred cabins, so this is for about
thirty seven hundred super fans. Yeah, and there's twenty decks
on board, sixteen of which are available for all of
the guests, the other four or for you know, everyone
that's running the city on top. We have two pools.
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We have hot tubs on decks seventeen and eighteen, water slides,
mini golf, a go kart track, there's a lot of
things to have fun and play with. This is all,
of course, happening outside of the panels and screenings and
things that we have going on for this event that
you're going to be able to do.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Let's dive into that. I know Ashley and I have
some questions about kind of the activities be held. You
said some screenings they'll be Q and a's what else
can you know fans expect to experience.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Yeah, so every single guest that books is going to
have access to one tell All panel and one Love
Story rewatch, where we are going to be announcing the
content of those in the coming months. We gonna nightly
cocktail parties across all thirteen bars on the ship every
single night. We'll do legendary episode screenings. We're gonna have
Bachelor Nation trivia, We're gonna have Bachelor Nation bingo. There
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will be themes, there will be uh. We're gonna kick
it all off with a huge sail away party on
the pool deck hosted by Jesse Palmer Tyler. Cameron's gonna
host fitness classes every day, So even while.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
You're on people are gonna have a field day with that.
Speaker 5 (05:25):
Yeah, even while you're you know, getting your soft serve
in the buffet and drinking your cocktails, you can still
get your workout on a lot of different types of
activities like that, So you can kind of curate the
vacation to what's gonna be most exciting to you each
individual fan.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
So with booking these things, are people going to have
be able to book these events ahead of time or
is it gonna just be a first come serve for
serve once you sign up on the ship.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Yeah, great question.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
We think a lot about this at our six man
We want to create an event that we don't want
people waiting in line on their vacations.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
So for everyone that books will end up doing.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
When we announce with these what the panels and the
screenings are and things like that down the line, everyone
is going to be able to have a priority list
of which ones they would like to get to, and
then we'll ticket everyone, so everyone will have access to
one Love Story rewatch and one tel All panel. Everything
else is going to be happening at the same time,
so you'll be able to go to a trivia, but
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there won't just be one trivia, There'll be a couple
of them, and there are also three other things happening
at the same time, so those will be first come,
first serve. We'll have some pool parties, silent disco things
like that, so you'll have a lot to choose from
and you won't all just be shuttled into one place
at a time.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
And how much access will guests have to Bachelor alum
like will there be designated meet and greets or are
the cast going to be out and about all the time?
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Be a mix. Definitely going to have cast members leading activities.
As we said, throughout the ship, if it's a pool
party or we're still coming up with a lot of
the little details that we want to create. The cocktail
parties are going to be where you're going to see
the most alums throughout the ship. At each of the bars,
there will be some designated meet and greets that will
announce kind of the structure of those and how many
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people can have access to that. If you look at
the presale incentives, it's one of the reasons why people
should get an early book at the very beginning in
During the presale, you get the choice of a pre
sale incentive, so Hannah Brown is going to do a
tell all on an episode. You can choose to have
your photo taken with Jesse Palmer. These are unlimited quantities,
so if you book early, you get to select which
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one you want first. So those are going to be
more designated specifically. The other ones are going to be
more first converserve.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Now we do have you've mentioned a few of the contestants,
the friends that have announced they're going to come. Ashley
ran through the list. You said, Jesse and Wells and
Hannah are going to be there along with Kelsey and Joey.
We got Chuck and Joan, Tyler, Cameron, one of our favorites,
Jill Chin. Obviously, we have some really exciting announcements with
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the Spencer and Jess from the season of Paradise. Also,
we got Trista and Ryan going to be there, an
appearance from Ryan Setter which doesn't always happen, but we're
always excited to see it. Charity and Dotton, Sean Low
and Catherine with a mix of some Goldens. So I
mean you have you know, Zach and Katie as well,
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So you have a really incredible list of people coming
on the ship. Well, each cast or each contestant kind
of be hosting one of these exclusive kind of gatherings
are sometimes the only time you could see them is
at a cocktail party.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
Everyone is going to do a handful of things, so yeah,
there's not just going to be one place that you
might have access to Joey or you know, Ryan and Trista.
But we do work with each of these teams to
kind of figure out, you know, what would be exciting
to them exactly. Tyler wants to lead fitness classes. That
makes perfect sense. Not everybody's gonna want to do that.
So there's gonna be cocktail parties, there's gonna be the panels.
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We're gonna make sure everybody does something more official in
that capacity. Then there's also those roaming but we have
a casino on board. We might be hosting some black
Jeck tournaments. There's gonna be some dance parties. Who wants
to be a DJ. We're gonna find ways for people
to interact in a lot of different capacities on board.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I'm just throwing out idea for you guys. You should
do a singles mixer something with any guy that's single,
justin Grant. I'm just looking, you know, at the list
right now. Blake Moyin's, I think the girls would really
like to have like their own Bachelor style cocktail party
with them.
Speaker 5 (09:46):
I think that's a really good idea.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
We used to host a live show called Bachelor Live
on Stage that myself and Becka Kouferin used to host together,
and we would do some speed dating on stage and
always got a little weird and all very exciting and
always very fun to watch. Darby. As we kind of
close off here with this, if somebody's listening, let's keep
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it really simple and clear and easy for them. If
you could do two things for us. One, tell us
what makes you most excited for this experience, why you
think somebody should come? And then if somebody says I
want to come, what is the best way for them
to get started in the process of joining the cruise ship?
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Amazing? The thing I'm most excited about and why I've
been at six Man for thirteen years and built a
lot of these events. I think it is so spectacular
getting to watch a community of people that really care
about the same thing, that are really excited to dig
deep and talk about it and get on board, and
everyone on that vacation is like minded with them and
have the same interests. It's really special watching those people
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make friends and watching those people get to connect with
their heroes and the thing they're most passionate about. So
getting to create something for these fans is what.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
I'm most excited about.
Speaker 5 (10:58):
And knowing that you know what, it's the tellels and
the panels and those organic moments, just what you're talking
about of like, it always gets a little weird in
the best way.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
That's what we can't plan for. Is what I'm most
excited about.
Speaker 5 (11:10):
And if you are listening and you really want to
find out how to get more information pricing, what the
pre sale incentives are, and then how to sign up
for the presale. Go to www dot Bachelor Nation Vacation
at Sea dot com and you've got all the information
on signing up for the presale there.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Okay, And when does the presale go live?
Speaker 5 (11:29):
Presale will start on September ninth. You can sign up
starting tonight all the way through the ninth, and then
public on sale will be September eighteenth.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Okay. Sounds good. And just one more idea that I
would love. My favorite cruise line.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
They do this thing, they do the Love and Marriage
game show, and they have a couple that's been married
for a long time, and then like mid level and
then like a newlywed, and then perhaps like a couple
that's still dating. I mean with Trista and Ryan there
and then Katie and Zach.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
And who knows right with Bespazier and just it's a
really good idea.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
And if Jared and I are able to make it,
hey stick us in there as the mid couple of
six years at love that now all right, Well, I'm
excited for everyone out there and.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
I just want to thank you Darby for giving.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
Us all the specifics and thank you all so much
for having me again.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
It's Bachelor Nation Vacation at seed dot com. You can
visit it. The website is ready to go. Darby, thanks
for putting this together. It sounds like a great time
for all the fans of the show. And if you're listening,
we will put the link somewhere that it's easy for
you to find it. Because Bachelor Nation at c dot
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I don't know you can goodness gracious, you can mess
that up pretty quickly, Darby, Thanks for joining us. Yeah, Ashley,
great group of people we know and love, many of
them very excited that they get to share who they
are with so many fans on this cruise ship. Bachelor
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Nation Vacation asse dot com. Go sign up if you're
listening and you're interested. This has been the Almost Famous
podcast talking about cruise ships. Until next time. I've been, Ben,
I've been Ashley.
Speaker 4 (13:17):
See you guys. Bye.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
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