October 18, 2025 • 28 mins
Ready to travel smarter, lighter, and farther? We kick things off with the carry-on shakeup: American Airlines is moving bag sizers to the lobby, cutting gate chaos and speeding up boarding without changing the rules. It’s a small change with big benefits for anyone who hates last-minute checks at the jet bridge—and a sign that practical boarding is making a comeback.
From there, we fast-track your bucket list with a 25-day Cape Town-to-Cairo adventure that strings together Kruger’s big game, Cape Town’s coast, Victoria Falls, Kenya’s Maasai Mara, and a Nile cruise between Aswan and Luxor. If Africa has felt overwhelming to plan, this itinerary solves it with expert pacing, built-in safaris, and seamless logistics. We pivot to Germany for a choose-your-own best-of: sail the Romantic Rhine with free airfare promos and stops like Heidelberg, Rüdesheim, and Cologne before finishing in Amsterdam, or build a nimble Berlin–Munich duo. In Berlin, get your bearings with hop-on-hop-off, then step into history at Checkpoint Charlie, Wall sites, and the Holocaust memorial. In Munich, base near Marienplatz, day-trip to Neuschwanstein, and reflect at Dachau.
Alaska gets the deep dive it deserves. For the best blend of price and weather, mid to late May is the sweet spot. We highlight can’t-miss ports—Skagway’s White Pass rail, Glacier Bay’s towering ice, Juneau’s reliable whale watching, and Ketchikan’s Misty Fjords—and share two standout itineraries: an early-May Princess sailing with Glacier Bay at a sharp balcony price, and an 11-day mid-July Cunard voyage that stacks Icy Strait, Hubbard Glacier, Sitka, and Wrangell for serious port collectors.
Industry updates round out the show: MSC doubles down on Alaska with a refreshed, mid-sized ship and aggressive pricing; Viking unveils a 142-day world cruise with free business-class airfare, generous onboard credit, and visa services; and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings aligns loyalty across Norwegian, Oceania, and Regent so your status travels with you as your tastes evolve.
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Patrick Wiscombe (00:00):
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Coming up, we will be talkingabout bag sizers.
Oh yeah.
We'll tell you where they'removing them.
The ultimate 24-day journeyfrom Cape Town to Cairo, and the
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travel deal of the week toGermany, and MST is getting
ready for another season inAlaska.
And of course, in the nextsegment of the show, we have the
cruise deal of the week.
Mark, you literally took offfrom Washington, D.C.
Was it Reagan International?
It was Reagan, yep.
DCA all the way to Hawaii.
(02:28):
That is a long, long flight.
That is 11 and a half hours.
Isn't that longer than goingfrom Salt Lake to Paris?
That feels like it's in thatrange.
It is.
That's about 45 minutes longer.
So it's a longer flight.
You can only choose one placeto go, Hawaii or Paris.
What are you choosing?
Hawaii.
(02:49):
I knew you'd say that.
Let's get right to the traveldudes headlines.
Let's talk about bag sizers.
Just what everyone wants tohear right out of the gate.
American Airlines is movingtheir bag sizers from the gates
to check-in lobbies.
That makes more sense anyway.
Mark Faldmo (03:06):
Yes.
One reason why they're doingthis is because it was always so
congested at the check-ingates.
They're actually just doingaway with the bag sizers.
What?
They're getting rid of it.
And they are.
That does not change the rulesfor the size of a carry-on bag.
Patrick Wiscombe (03:21):
Right.
Mark Faldmo (03:21):
But it slows down boarding, especially when the
gate agent is asking people tocheck all their bags.
So basically, what Americanssaid is carry-on bags, which is
45 linear total inches, sizewidth, length, still stands.
If you get a bag bigger thanthat, and if it fits in the
overhead bin, it fits in theoverhead bin.
If not, you'll slow down theplane and check it.
(03:43):
Oh, interesting.
That's always been annoying tome, especially on some of the
budget carriers where before youget on, some of them make every
single passenger put theircarry-on bag in that bag sizer.
And it's so annoying.
Patrick Wiscombe (03:56):
I've never experienced that.
It's just we get on and we justgo.
So go.
Mark Faldmo (04:01):
Yeah.
I didn't know that was reallygood.
I actually haven't seen a bagsizer at any Delta gates
recently either.
So um, but America made a bigdeal about this.
Patrick Wiscombe (04:10):
Southwest has announced their first flights to
Alaska.
Mark Faldmo (04:14):
On May 15th, they will be flying to Anchorage,
Alaska from Phoenix and LasVegas is where the connections
will go through.
This is only operating in thesummer season, so mid-May to
mid-September, but it'll be aseasonal route.
But it's always good to addextra competition.
Patrick Wiscombe (04:32):
What city are they coming out of?
Phoenix, Las Vegas.
Did you say Salt Lake?
Or do you have to connectthrough those other two cities?
Mark Faldmo (04:39):
You have to connect.
So it and I'm sorry, I probablymisspoke.
It's Las Vegas and Denver.
Oh.
Are the the two cities thatthey'll be flying to Anchorage
from?
Patrick Wiscombe (04:48):
I thought this was pretty cool.
The ultimate 24-day Africanjourney, Cape Town to Cairo.
Awesome.
Mark Faldmo (04:55):
Yeah, this is by a company called Colette Tours.
They do tours all over theworld, but they've kind of
really been focusing on Africathree times a year.
It's a 25-day tour.
You'll fly into Johannesburg,spend one night there, and then
go to Kruger National Park for asafari, and then fly down to
Cape Town for three nights, thenfly to Victoria Falls for three
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nights.
And Victoria Falls is on mybucket list.
I yeah, absolutely want to makeit to Victoria Falls at some
point.
And then fly to Kenya, spendfive nights total there between
Nairobi and the Masimara.
I'm doing a safari there.
And then from there, you'll flyto Cairo, or you'll spend four
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nights in Cairo, plus do a rivercruise between Aswan and Luxor.
Patrick Wiscombe (05:45):
Wow.
Mark Faldmo (05:46):
It really is the ultimate Africa tour.
So nine differentaccommodations that you'll stay
at.
It includes 51 meals.
As we talked about, uh KrugerNational Park, Victoria Falls.
There's seven uh wildlifesafaris included in that, and
then also Victoria Falls.
Patrick Wiscombe (06:03):
That sounds like the way that I would want
to see Africa.
Just see the highlights andthen come home.
Mark Faldmo (06:09):
Yes.
Patrick Wiscombe (06:09):
Yeah.
24, 20, what'd you say?
24, 25 days?
25 days.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
Mark Faldmo (06:16):
Probably the best tour I've seen of Africa.
And it's definitely the mostextensive.
And you see everything.
Most people don't do a safariand do Egypt at the same time.
So you you get the very best ofAfrica.
Patrick Wiscombe (06:29):
Let's get to the travel deal of the week.
And we received a text questionfrom was this Jenny or Janae?
I think it's Janae.
Janae.
Okay.
Yeah, Janae.
So if you have travel-relatedquestions, text or or call the
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Janae wants to go to Germany.
And she says, I have seven toeight days.
What would you recommend?
So it's kind of a wide openquestion.
Mark Faldmo (07:03):
There are a couple ways.
We've talked about Globus toursbefore.
The two ways that I wouldactually see Germany, one would
be on a river cruise.
We talked about Avalonwaterways a lot.
Right now they have freeairfare to Europe, so it makes
it a pretty good deal.
Yeah.
They have their romantic Rhine,which starts in Basel,
Switzerland, goes down to a stopin the Black Forest, goes down
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to a stop where you can get toStrasbourg, France, goes to
Mainz in Germany.
You'd go to Heidelberg, whichis probably one of my favorite
German towns to visit.
Goes to Rudesheim, then goes toCologne, the cathedral in
Cologne.
You've seen it in person,right?
A couple of times, yes.
Patrick Wiscombe (07:46):
That is some breathtaking architecture.
Mark Faldmo (07:49):
It actually still has an unexploded bomb from
World War II in it.
They didn't want to move it andrisk damaging the cathedral.
So it's just up theresomewhere, which is interesting.
Um and then it ends ends inAmsterdam, Holland.
So that is one way to do it.
If you kind of wanted to doGermany a little bit more on
(08:14):
your own, I would recommend, andand this is a build your own
package.
Then right now at Blue PlanetVacations, we have a $500 off, a
build your own package toanywhere in the world.
But I'd recommend doing Berlinand Munich.
Probably spending four nightsin each city, and then just you
(08:34):
know, quickly what to do uh inthat area.
In Berlin, I would do the hopon, hop off tour.
Um it's a combination of busand boat that you can do it, and
you can buy a 48-hour pass todo that.
Patrick Wiscombe (08:47):
You are a big fan of the hop on, hop off
stuff, because it's guaranteedtransportation and it kind of
takes you to the big spotsanyway.
Mark Faldmo (08:55):
Yeah, and I love it, especially for the first day
in a city, especially a citythat you've not been to.
Yeah.
Because usually you can dothose routes in about two hours,
two and a half hours if youdon't get off, and it gives you
a great overview of the city,and then you can plan out the
rest of your days from there.
Patrick Wiscombe (09:12):
It's got to include something from World War
II, then.
Mark Faldmo (09:14):
It does.
There's a great walking tour.
It's World War II and Cold Warwalking tour.
Go to places like CheckpointCharlie, see the Berlin Wall.
Patrick Wiscombe (09:23):
Is Checkpoint Charlie still there?
It is.
Obviously, the wall is gone,but they kept that.
That's good.
Mark Faldmo (09:28):
Yeah, checkpoint.
In fact, when I was in Berlin,I went to Checkpoint Charlie,
and they have guards theredressed up in each of the
uniforms, and you know, kind ofmake it as authentic as they
can.
I started talking to the guythat was playing the German
guard, and turns out he was fromProvo, Utah.
So it is authentic, but maybethe actors are not authentic if
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if there's one from Provo, Utah.
Germans are a warm-heartedpeople.
Yes, yeah.
And Provo.
And other things.
The the Holocaust Museum inBerlin or memorial is actually
quite moving there.
That's probably one of thebetter ones I've seen around the
world.
And then from Berlin, you cango to Postom, which is where the
(10:16):
Prussian Empire was based.
There's a big palace and veryinteresting things there.
It's a UNESCO World HeritageSite.
So there's lots you can do inBerlin.
And then, you know, also forme, it's very interesting to see
the differences between EastBerlin and West Berlin.
Oh, yeah.
They would still be very, verydifferent at this point.
(10:36):
It is.
It is.
There's still the you know,kind of communist department
complexes in East Berlin, whereWest Berlin is a lot more
developed.
Although that was 12 years agothat I went, and there's been a
lot of construction, so it'sprobably not quite as distinct,
but it was still pretty distinctwhen I was there.
And then from Berlin, you'dtake the train down to Munich.
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By the high speed train, it'sthree and a half hours.
I would stay right in the citycenter.
I would start off with the hopon hop off tour, spend time at
the Merriamplatz, which is themain city square, home to the
famous Glockenspiel, whichoccurs three times a day.
It's a big clock, and the wholebuilding has little
performances like cuckoo clocks,and pretty interesting to do
(11:21):
that.
And then from Munich, that'swhere you'd get to
Neuschwinstein.
So you can do Neuschwinstein,which is a castle that Walt
Disney based Cinderella's castleon.
Lindorf, which is uh anothercastle that was built by King
Ludwig, who built lots ofcastles in the area.
(11:42):
And one thing that I alwayslove to do there is go to the
Hofbrow House.
Now I know there are someHofbrow houses around the world
that you can go to, but this isthe original one and have a
German experience.
Get a pretzel there.
Have a picture with Heatherthat has a pretzel that's bigger
than her head there.
So just really good pretzels.
(12:04):
Um, and then also something youshould do when in Munich is go
to Dachau concentration camp,which is about an hour outside
of town, and go and see thatpart of our world's history.
Patrick Wiscombe (12:16):
Janae, call Mark, customize a trip or cruise
the Rhine River.
Your choice, obviously.
What a great way to see theworld.
Either by cruise, a rivercruise, or just build your own
package.
Get up to is this up to $500 or$500, $550?
Mark Faldmo (12:39):
It's $500 off any um custom built.
Okay.
Patrick Wiscombe (12:44):
Take advantage of that.
Janae,888-718-7717-888-718-7717, and
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When we come back, it is timefor the segment of the show that
has made us famous around thecountry and around the world.
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It is the infamous JustCruising segment.
We'll be talking about MSTgetting ready to open sales for
their second season in Alaska.
Norwegian Cruise Lines is goingto debut their loyalty program
across all three of theirbrands.
What?
They have three rounds?
Yeah, we'll tell you who theyare.
And of course, we have thecruise deal of the week.
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Just on a personal note.
So I am granddude now timestwo.
Congratulations.
Very exciting.
They still haven't decided on aname, so I would say, welcome
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to the family, baby.
But I don't know a name yet.
But in the words of my firstgrandson, Casey, he just calls
him Baby Pancake.
So welcome, baby pancake.
Coming up in this segment ofthe show, we've got the cruise
deal of the week, but firstlet's get to the cruise news
(16:21):
headlines.
I saw this headline that MSCCruises is opening its second
Alaska season.
Their first season willactually be next year, 2026, but
they're already opening salesfor their 2027 season.
One would assume that saleshave gone very well.
Mark Faldmo (16:39):
Yeah, sales have gone well.
And if you're looking for thebest priced cruises, MSC has the
best price cruises out there,even for 2026.
They're anywhere from 50 to 150per person lower than most
cruise lines.
So they're being reallyaggressive as a new cruise line
to the market.
They kind of have to be.
(17:00):
Their 2027 season will startApril 26th of 2027 and go
through the end of September.
Before it starts this season,the MSc Posisa, I think is has.
Patrick Wiscombe (17:13):
Yeah.
Mark Faldmo (17:14):
Uh POSIA is undergoing the biggest
renovation upgrade in MSc cruisehistory.
They're adding a yacht club,two specialty restaurants,
they're adding and making bigupgrades to their Aria spa.
So they're really making a pushfor this to be now.
This is a medium-sized ship,but they're making it a push to
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be one of their best ships atsea, and it will be sailing in
Alaska.
Patrick Wiscombe (17:38):
Viking has a new world cruise.
I guess it would be an oceancruise.
Mark Faldmo (17:43):
It is an ocean cruise.
Before I go over the itinerary,I just want to go over some of
the benefits of a Viking worldcruise.
Now, this cruise is 142 dayslong.
So it goes to 31 countries andincludes 61 tours.
But some of the perks of thisfree business class airfare and
transfers, 4,000 per coupleshipboard credit.
(18:05):
4,000?
Yeah, 4,000.
Um, and then an additional2,000 if you're a past guest.
And then for a limited time,you get reduced deposit of 10%,
complementary visa services,because you will need to get a
visa to enter some of thesecountries.
Patrick Wiscombe (18:23):
Oh, yeah.
Mark Faldmo (18:24):
A free average package and free Wi-Fi.
So if you book a world cruisebefore October 31st and you get
all of those perks, probably thebig class airfare is worth it.
Yeah.
Patrick Wiscombe (18:37):
I'm glad that they're including that stuff
because all of that stuff addsup.
Mark Faldmo (18:40):
It does.
Patrick Wiscombe (18:41):
Yeah.
Mark Faldmo (18:41):
I'll quickly go over the itinerary because we
probably don't have time to goover it too in depth because it
is 142 days and 31 countries.
Um, but starts in FortLauderdale, goes to Great
Country.
Yeah, great country.
Through the Panama Canal to LosAngeles, goes over to Hawaii,
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goes down to French Polynesiaand the Cook Islands, goes to
New Zealand, sells over toAustralia, sells up that west
and north coast of Australia,through Singapore, some ports in
Thailand, ports in the IndianOcean, the seashells, and then
goes to Kenya, goes toMadagascar, and then down the
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Horn of Africa, stops a fewstops in Africa, then a few
stops up the west coast ofAfrica, goes to Cape Verde
Islands, and then to Morocco,Portugal and Spain, France, and
then ends in London.
Wow.
So, you know, quite theitinerary from Fort Lauderdale
to London.
(19:44):
You know, I think this one isvery exceptional for the ports
that it offers.
Especially you're basicallyalmost completely
circumnavigating Africa.
Oh, yeah.
Which is pretty interesting.
So again, 142 days with freebusiness class airfare.
Give me a call and we can pricethis out for you.
Could you stand being on a shipfor 142 days?
Patrick Wiscombe (20:07):
I think I could.
Going to those ports, I coulddo it.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdingsis debuting a loyalty program
across all three of theirbrands.
Now, let's just go over thethree brands quickly.
Norwegian, NCL, that's probablythe most well known.
What are their other twobrands?
Mark Faldmo (20:25):
So they have Oceana, which is a luxury or
just slightly below luxurycruise line, and then they have
a region cruise line, which ispure luxury.
It's probably one of the topcruise lines in the world.
And so now they are combiningtheir uh or their kind of status
matching, I guess, theirloyalty program.
(20:46):
So if you're a latitude rewardmember with Norwegian, you'll
have similar status on Oceanaand Seven Seas, which I think is
good.
Royal Caribbean and Celebrityhave done that for years.
Patrick Wiscombe (20:57):
That seems like a just a necessary move.
Mark Faldmo (21:00):
Yeah.
Especially hoping to get someof those Norwegian cruisers to
move on to the next brand toOceana and Regent.
And you know, possibly to getsome of those Oceana cruisers to
cruise in the haven onNorwegian, which is a very
luxury experience.
Patrick Wiscombe (21:17):
Let's get to the cruise deal of the week,
which is always in this segmentof the show.
And uh we received a call.
Was this David?
I think it was.
Was this a call or a text?
I think it was a I think it wasa call.
801-649-3700.
801-649-3700.
If you want to get a hold ofthe show while we're on the air,
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but also throughout the week,if you have travel-related
questions, David is asking, hehas an Alaska cruise question.
He says, I want to take acruise to Alaska next year, so I
guess it'd be 2026.
When is the best time to go?
And are some of the portsbetter than others?
The best time, I think, forprice is probably early May,
(22:00):
late September.
Mark Faldmo (22:02):
Yeah, you are correct on that.
And personally, I think thebest overall time if you're
trying to get weather and priceis mid to late May, because you
know, Alaska is a temperaterainforest, and May is the
driest month.
And so you kind of get thoselower May prices with less rain
(22:22):
in May.
Now you're probably gonna seerain two to three days of your
cruise anyway in Alaska.
Um, but that's probably thebest time.
And you know, when you getthere mid to late May, the
whales are just starting to getthere, so you're not gonna miss
out on seeing some of thewildlife like you might in the
late April or early Maysailings.
Patrick Wiscombe (22:45):
What are some of the ports that you would not
miss?
Mark Faldmo (22:48):
This was a hard one because every port I've been to
I love in Alaska.
But for me personally, the onesI would not miss are Skagway
and Glacier Bay.
Skagway with the white patchrail.
Um, that's probably one of myfavorite activities to do in the
world.
I also have family historythere because uh one of my
great-great-grandfathers was agold prospector and went over
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the white horse.
Oh, I didn't know that thetraditional way, um, where you
had to pack up a thousand poundsof supplies because Canada
won't let you enter Canadaunless you had supplies to make
it to where you were going.
Unfortunately for him, by thetime he got there, they had
already found a way to get thereby riverboat from Fairbanks,
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and so all of the plots weretaken by the time he got there.
So um but I like Skagwaybecause it does have that gold
mining history and the whitehorse pass.
And then the other one, again,not to miss, is Glacier Bay.
Patrick Wiscombe (23:47):
Yeah, it really is amazing.
Yeah, what about whale watchingthough?
Mark Faldmo (23:51):
Yeah, and if you want to go whale watching, it's
good everywhere, but I thinkJuno is the best port.
I've had the best whalewatching excursions out there.
I have a company I work withthat just very good at whale
watching there every time I'vegone.
And then Ketchikan is kind ofmy other favorite port.
Take a flight scene or by boatto go to the misty fjords, yeah.
(24:14):
Uh, which is just amazing.
That's kind of the thetraditional Alaska cruise.
Skagway, Juno, Ketchikan, uh,and then they throw in Victoria
there for their internationalport.
Patrick Wiscombe (24:28):
Victoria is great, but hopefully you can get
there during the day if it'sone of the uh the one-way trips,
so that you get there duringthe day instead of the four-hour
midnight.
Mark Faldmo (24:38):
Yeah, yeah, eight to midnight.
So those are kind of myfavorite ports.
Most ports that I've been to inAlaska are pretty good.
Patrick Wiscombe (24:47):
You really can't go wrong with Alaska at
all.
Since this is the cruise dealof the week, what do we have for
listeners this week?
Mark Faldmo (24:54):
So I just picked out two Alaska cruise
itineraries for next year 2026.
One is for price and one is forthe itinerary.
And the first one is aseven-day Alaska cruise on
Princess Cruises.
This one is kind of arepositioning cruises.
It's the very beginning of theseason, May 2nd.
And it starts in Vancouver andends in Seattle.
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Um it goes to Ketchikan,Juneau, Skagway, and Glacier
Bay.
So this one is hitting all ofthose ports that we talked
about.
Yeah.
I'm just gonna give the balconycabin because it's not that
much more expensive than theinside.
It starts at $12.99 per person,which for Alaska, that's you
know, if you take this intoJune, you're up in the 2000s per
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person.
So this is a great price forthat.
And then the next cruise, Ichose this one for the ports.
It's actually an 11-day Alaskacruise, round trip Seattle.
It's on Cunard cruise lines.
So its ports are Seattle,Victoria, Ketchikan.
Oh, so they actually stop inVictoria?
(26:03):
In Victoria, yeah.
Okay.
And then Ketchikan, Rangwrell,Alaska, Sitka, Icy Strait,
Glacier Bay, Skagway, andHubbard Glacier.
Whoa! And it is 11 days, but Iuh it hits all of the good ports
um in Alaska.
Although I see it does not hitJuneau.
(26:26):
So that's the one one port thatwe talked about that it doesn't
include.
Um but for 11-day cruise,inside start at 1589 and balcony
cabins start at 2459.
Whoa.
So, and that's mid-July.
So that's right in the peak ofsummer at the perceived best
time to go.
You just can't go wrong withAlaska ever.
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Coming up, we will be talkingabout bag sizers.
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We'll tell you where they'removing them.
The ultimate 24-day journeyfrom Cape Town to Cairo, and the
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travel deal of the week toGermany, and MST is getting
ready for another season inAlaska.
And of course, in the nextsegment of the show, we have the
cruise deal of the week.
Mark, you literally took offfrom Washington, D.C.
Was it Reagan International?
It was Reagan, yep.
DCA all the way to Hawaii.
(02:28):
That is a long, long flight.
That is 11 and a half hours.
Isn't that longer than goingfrom Salt Lake to Paris?
That feels like it's in thatrange.
It is.
That's about 45 minutes longer.
So it's a longer flight.
You can only choose one placeto go, Hawaii or Paris.
What are you choosing?
Hawaii.
(02:49):
I knew you'd say that.
Let's get right to the traveldudes headlines.
Let's talk about bag sizers.
Just what everyone wants tohear right out of the gate.
American Airlines is movingtheir bag sizers from the gates
to check-in lobbies.
That makes more sense anyway.
Mark Faldmo (03:06):
Yes.
One reason why they're doingthis is because it was always so
congested at the check-ingates.
They're actually just doingaway with the bag sizers.
What?
They're getting rid of it.
And they are.
That does not change the rulesfor the size of a carry-on bag.
Patrick Wiscombe (03:21):
Right.
Mark Faldmo (03:21):
But it slows down boarding, especially when the
gate agent is asking people tocheck all their bags.
So basically, what Americanssaid is carry-on bags, which is
45 linear total inches, sizewidth, length, still stands.
If you get a bag bigger thanthat, and if it fits in the
overhead bin, it fits in theoverhead bin.
If not, you'll slow down theplane and check it.
(03:43):
Oh, interesting.
That's always been annoying tome, especially on some of the
budget carriers where before youget on, some of them make every
single passenger put theircarry-on bag in that bag sizer.
And it's so annoying.
Patrick Wiscombe (03:56):
I've never experienced that.
It's just we get on and we justgo.
So go.
Mark Faldmo (04:01):
Yeah.
I didn't know that was reallygood.
I actually haven't seen a bagsizer at any Delta gates
recently either.
So um, but America made a bigdeal about this.
Patrick Wiscombe (04:10):
Southwest has announced their first flights to
Alaska.
Mark Faldmo (04:14):
On May 15th, they will be flying to Anchorage,
Alaska from Phoenix and LasVegas is where the connections
will go through.
This is only operating in thesummer season, so mid-May to
mid-September, but it'll be aseasonal route.
But it's always good to addextra competition.
Patrick Wiscombe (04:32):
What city are they coming out of?
Phoenix, Las Vegas.
Did you say Salt Lake?
Or do you have to connectthrough those other two cities?
Mark Faldmo (04:39):
You have to connect.
So it and I'm sorry, I probablymisspoke.
It's Las Vegas and Denver.
Oh.
Are the the two cities thatthey'll be flying to Anchorage
from?
Patrick Wiscombe (04:48):
I thought this was pretty cool.
The ultimate 24-day Africanjourney, Cape Town to Cairo.
Awesome.
Mark Faldmo (04:55):
Yeah, this is by a company called Colette Tours.
They do tours all over theworld, but they've kind of
really been focusing on Africathree times a year.
It's a 25-day tour.
You'll fly into Johannesburg,spend one night there, and then
go to Kruger National Park for asafari, and then fly down to
Cape Town for three nights, thenfly to Victoria Falls for three
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nights.
And Victoria Falls is on mybucket list.
I yeah, absolutely want to makeit to Victoria Falls at some
point.
And then fly to Kenya, spendfive nights total there between
Nairobi and the Masimara.
I'm doing a safari there.
And then from there, you'll flyto Cairo, or you'll spend four
(05:39):
nights in Cairo, plus do a rivercruise between Aswan and Luxor.
Patrick Wiscombe (05:45):
Wow.
Mark Faldmo (05:46):
It really is the ultimate Africa tour.
So nine differentaccommodations that you'll stay
at.
It includes 51 meals.
As we talked about, uh KrugerNational Park, Victoria Falls.
There's seven uh wildlifesafaris included in that, and
then also Victoria Falls.
Patrick Wiscombe (06:03):
That sounds like the way that I would want
to see Africa.
Just see the highlights andthen come home.
Mark Faldmo (06:09):
Yes.
Patrick Wiscombe (06:09):
Yeah.
24, 20, what'd you say?
24, 25 days?
25 days.
Yeah.
That's pretty good.
Mark Faldmo (06:16):
Probably the best tour I've seen of Africa.
And it's definitely the mostextensive.
And you see everything.
Most people don't do a safariand do Egypt at the same time.
So you you get the very best ofAfrica.
Patrick Wiscombe (06:29):
Let's get to the travel deal of the week.
And we received a text questionfrom was this Jenny or Janae?
I think it's Janae.
Janae.
Okay.
Yeah, Janae.
So if you have travel-relatedquestions, text or or call the
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Janae wants to go to Germany.
And she says, I have seven toeight days.
What would you recommend?
So it's kind of a wide openquestion.
Mark Faldmo (07:03):
There are a couple ways.
We've talked about Globus toursbefore.
The two ways that I wouldactually see Germany, one would
be on a river cruise.
We talked about Avalonwaterways a lot.
Right now they have freeairfare to Europe, so it makes
it a pretty good deal.
Yeah.
They have their romantic Rhine,which starts in Basel,
Switzerland, goes down to a stopin the Black Forest, goes down
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to a stop where you can get toStrasbourg, France, goes to
Mainz in Germany.
You'd go to Heidelberg, whichis probably one of my favorite
German towns to visit.
Goes to Rudesheim, then goes toCologne, the cathedral in
Cologne.
You've seen it in person,right?
A couple of times, yes.
Patrick Wiscombe (07:46):
That is some breathtaking architecture.
Mark Faldmo (07:49):
It actually still has an unexploded bomb from
World War II in it.
They didn't want to move it andrisk damaging the cathedral.
So it's just up theresomewhere, which is interesting.
Um and then it ends ends inAmsterdam, Holland.
So that is one way to do it.
If you kind of wanted to doGermany a little bit more on
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your own, I would recommend, andand this is a build your own
package.
Then right now at Blue PlanetVacations, we have a $500 off, a
build your own package toanywhere in the world.
But I'd recommend doing Berlinand Munich.
Probably spending four nightsin each city, and then just you
(08:34):
know, quickly what to do uh inthat area.
In Berlin, I would do the hopon, hop off tour.
Um it's a combination of busand boat that you can do it, and
you can buy a 48-hour pass todo that.
Patrick Wiscombe (08:47):
You are a big fan of the hop on, hop off
stuff, because it's guaranteedtransportation and it kind of
takes you to the big spotsanyway.
Mark Faldmo (08:55):
Yeah, and I love it, especially for the first day
in a city, especially a citythat you've not been to.
Yeah.
Because usually you can dothose routes in about two hours,
two and a half hours if youdon't get off, and it gives you
a great overview of the city,and then you can plan out the
rest of your days from there.
Patrick Wiscombe (09:12):
It's got to include something from World War
II, then.
Mark Faldmo (09:14):
It does.
There's a great walking tour.
It's World War II and Cold Warwalking tour.
Go to places like CheckpointCharlie, see the Berlin Wall.
Patrick Wiscombe (09:23):
Is Checkpoint Charlie still there?
It is.
Obviously, the wall is gone,but they kept that.
That's good.
Mark Faldmo (09:28):
Yeah, checkpoint.
In fact, when I was in Berlin,I went to Checkpoint Charlie,
and they have guards theredressed up in each of the
uniforms, and you know, kind ofmake it as authentic as they
can.
I started talking to the guythat was playing the German
guard, and turns out he was fromProvo, Utah.
So it is authentic, but maybethe actors are not authentic if
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if there's one from Provo, Utah.
Germans are a warm-heartedpeople.
Yes, yeah.
And Provo.
And other things.
The the Holocaust Museum inBerlin or memorial is actually
quite moving there.
That's probably one of thebetter ones I've seen around the
world.
And then from Berlin, you cango to Postom, which is where the
(10:16):
Prussian Empire was based.
There's a big palace and veryinteresting things there.
It's a UNESCO World HeritageSite.
So there's lots you can do inBerlin.
And then, you know, also forme, it's very interesting to see
the differences between EastBerlin and West Berlin.
Oh, yeah.
They would still be very, verydifferent at this point.
(10:36):
It is.
It is.
There's still the you know,kind of communist department
complexes in East Berlin, whereWest Berlin is a lot more
developed.
Although that was 12 years agothat I went, and there's been a
lot of construction, so it'sprobably not quite as distinct,
but it was still pretty distinctwhen I was there.
And then from Berlin, you'dtake the train down to Munich.
(10:58):
By the high speed train, it'sthree and a half hours.
I would stay right in the citycenter.
I would start off with the hopon hop off tour, spend time at
the Merriamplatz, which is themain city square, home to the
famous Glockenspiel, whichoccurs three times a day.
It's a big clock, and the wholebuilding has little
performances like cuckoo clocks,and pretty interesting to do
(11:21):
that.
And then from Munich, that'swhere you'd get to
Neuschwinstein.
So you can do Neuschwinstein,which is a castle that Walt
Disney based Cinderella's castleon.
Lindorf, which is uh anothercastle that was built by King
Ludwig, who built lots ofcastles in the area.
(11:42):
And one thing that I alwayslove to do there is go to the
Hofbrow House.
Now I know there are someHofbrow houses around the world
that you can go to, but this isthe original one and have a
German experience.
Get a pretzel there.
Have a picture with Heatherthat has a pretzel that's bigger
than her head there.
So just really good pretzels.
(12:04):
Um, and then also something youshould do when in Munich is go
to Dachau concentration camp,which is about an hour outside
of town, and go and see thatpart of our world's history.
Patrick Wiscombe (12:16):
Janae, call Mark, customize a trip or cruise
the Rhine River.
Your choice, obviously.
What a great way to see theworld.
Either by cruise, a rivercruise, or just build your own
package.
Get up to is this up to $500 or$500, $550?
Mark Faldmo (12:39):
It's $500 off any um custom built.
Okay.
Patrick Wiscombe (12:44):
Take advantage of that.
Janae,888-718-7717-888-718-7717, and
he'll post this information onBluePlanetVacations.com.
When we come back, it is timefor the segment of the show that
has made us famous around thecountry and around the world.
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It is the infamous JustCruising segment.
We'll be talking about MSTgetting ready to open sales for
their second season in Alaska.
Norwegian Cruise Lines is goingto debut their loyalty program
across all three of theirbrands.
What?
They have three rounds?
Yeah, we'll tell you who theyare.
And of course, we have thecruise deal of the week.
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Patrick Wiscombe (15:39):
Just on a personal note.
So I am granddude now timestwo.
Congratulations.
Very exciting.
They still haven't decided on aname, so I would say, welcome
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to the family, baby.
But I don't know a name yet.
But in the words of my firstgrandson, Casey, he just calls
him Baby Pancake.
So welcome, baby pancake.
Coming up in this segment ofthe show, we've got the cruise
deal of the week, but firstlet's get to the cruise news
(16:21):
headlines.
I saw this headline that MSCCruises is opening its second
Alaska season.
Their first season willactually be next year, 2026, but
they're already opening salesfor their 2027 season.
One would assume that saleshave gone very well.
Mark Faldmo (16:39):
Yeah, sales have gone well.
And if you're looking for thebest priced cruises, MSC has the
best price cruises out there,even for 2026.
They're anywhere from 50 to 150per person lower than most
cruise lines.
So they're being reallyaggressive as a new cruise line
to the market.
They kind of have to be.
(17:00):
Their 2027 season will startApril 26th of 2027 and go
through the end of September.
Before it starts this season,the MSc Posisa, I think is has.
Patrick Wiscombe (17:13):
Yeah.
Mark Faldmo (17:14):
Uh POSIA is undergoing the biggest
renovation upgrade in MSc cruisehistory.
They're adding a yacht club,two specialty restaurants,
they're adding and making bigupgrades to their Aria spa.
So they're really making a pushfor this to be now.
This is a medium-sized ship,but they're making it a push to
(17:35):
be one of their best ships atsea, and it will be sailing in
Alaska.
Patrick Wiscombe (17:38):
Viking has a new world cruise.
I guess it would be an oceancruise.
Mark Faldmo (17:43):
It is an ocean cruise.
Before I go over the itinerary,I just want to go over some of
the benefits of a Viking worldcruise.
Now, this cruise is 142 dayslong.
So it goes to 31 countries andincludes 61 tours.
But some of the perks of thisfree business class airfare and
transfers, 4,000 per coupleshipboard credit.
(18:05):
4,000?
Yeah, 4,000.
Um, and then an additional2,000 if you're a past guest.
And then for a limited time,you get reduced deposit of 10%,
complementary visa services,because you will need to get a
visa to enter some of thesecountries.
Patrick Wiscombe (18:23):
Oh, yeah.
Mark Faldmo (18:24):
A free average package and free Wi-Fi.
So if you book a world cruisebefore October 31st and you get
all of those perks, probably thebig class airfare is worth it.
Yeah.
Patrick Wiscombe (18:37):
I'm glad that they're including that stuff
because all of that stuff addsup.
Mark Faldmo (18:40):
It does.
Patrick Wiscombe (18:41):
Yeah.
Mark Faldmo (18:41):
I'll quickly go over the itinerary because we
probably don't have time to goover it too in depth because it
is 142 days and 31 countries.
Um, but starts in FortLauderdale, goes to Great
Country.
Yeah, great country.
Through the Panama Canal to LosAngeles, goes over to Hawaii,
(19:02):
goes down to French Polynesiaand the Cook Islands, goes to
New Zealand, sells over toAustralia, sells up that west
and north coast of Australia,through Singapore, some ports in
Thailand, ports in the IndianOcean, the seashells, and then
goes to Kenya, goes toMadagascar, and then down the
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Horn of Africa, stops a fewstops in Africa, then a few
stops up the west coast ofAfrica, goes to Cape Verde
Islands, and then to Morocco,Portugal and Spain, France, and
then ends in London.
Wow.
So, you know, quite theitinerary from Fort Lauderdale
to London.
(19:44):
You know, I think this one isvery exceptional for the ports
that it offers.
Especially you're basicallyalmost completely
circumnavigating Africa.
Oh, yeah.
Which is pretty interesting.
So again, 142 days with freebusiness class airfare.
Give me a call and we can pricethis out for you.
Could you stand being on a shipfor 142 days?
Patrick Wiscombe (20:07):
I think I could.
Going to those ports, I coulddo it.
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdingsis debuting a loyalty program
across all three of theirbrands.
Now, let's just go over thethree brands quickly.
Norwegian, NCL, that's probablythe most well known.
What are their other twobrands?
Mark Faldmo (20:25):
So they have Oceana, which is a luxury or
just slightly below luxurycruise line, and then they have
a region cruise line, which ispure luxury.
It's probably one of the topcruise lines in the world.
And so now they are combiningtheir uh or their kind of status
matching, I guess, theirloyalty program.
(20:46):
So if you're a latitude rewardmember with Norwegian, you'll
have similar status on Oceanaand Seven Seas, which I think is
good.
Royal Caribbean and Celebrityhave done that for years.
Patrick Wiscombe (20:57):
That seems like a just a necessary move.
Mark Faldmo (21:00):
Yeah.
Especially hoping to get someof those Norwegian cruisers to
move on to the next brand toOceana and Regent.
And you know, possibly to getsome of those Oceana cruisers to
cruise in the haven onNorwegian, which is a very
luxury experience.
Patrick Wiscombe (21:17):
Let's get to the cruise deal of the week,
which is always in this segmentof the show.
And uh we received a call.
Was this David?
I think it was.
Was this a call or a text?
I think it was a I think it wasa call.
801-649-3700.
801-649-3700.
If you want to get a hold ofthe show while we're on the air,
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but also throughout the week,if you have travel-related
questions, David is asking, hehas an Alaska cruise question.
He says, I want to take acruise to Alaska next year, so I
guess it'd be 2026.
When is the best time to go?
And are some of the portsbetter than others?
The best time, I think, forprice is probably early May,
(22:00):
late September.
Mark Faldmo (22:02):
Yeah, you are correct on that.
And personally, I think thebest overall time if you're
trying to get weather and priceis mid to late May, because you
know, Alaska is a temperaterainforest, and May is the
driest month.
And so you kind of get thoselower May prices with less rain
(22:22):
in May.
Now you're probably gonna seerain two to three days of your
cruise anyway in Alaska.
Um, but that's probably thebest time.
And you know, when you getthere mid to late May, the
whales are just starting to getthere, so you're not gonna miss
out on seeing some of thewildlife like you might in the
late April or early Maysailings.
Patrick Wiscombe (22:45):
What are some of the ports that you would not
miss?
Mark Faldmo (22:48):
This was a hard one because every port I've been to
I love in Alaska.
But for me personally, the onesI would not miss are Skagway
and Glacier Bay.
Skagway with the white patchrail.
Um, that's probably one of myfavorite activities to do in the
world.
I also have family historythere because uh one of my
great-great-grandfathers was agold prospector and went over
(23:12):
the white horse.
Oh, I didn't know that thetraditional way, um, where you
had to pack up a thousand poundsof supplies because Canada
won't let you enter Canadaunless you had supplies to make
it to where you were going.
Unfortunately for him, by thetime he got there, they had
already found a way to get thereby riverboat from Fairbanks,
(23:32):
and so all of the plots weretaken by the time he got there.
So um but I like Skagwaybecause it does have that gold
mining history and the whitehorse pass.
And then the other one, again,not to miss, is Glacier Bay.
Patrick Wiscombe (23:47):
Yeah, it really is amazing.
Yeah, what about whale watchingthough?
Mark Faldmo (23:51):
Yeah, and if you want to go whale watching, it's
good everywhere, but I thinkJuno is the best port.
I've had the best whalewatching excursions out there.
I have a company I work withthat just very good at whale
watching there every time I'vegone.
And then Ketchikan is kind ofmy other favorite port.
Take a flight scene or by boatto go to the misty fjords, yeah.
(24:14):
Uh, which is just amazing.
That's kind of the thetraditional Alaska cruise.
Skagway, Juno, Ketchikan, uh,and then they throw in Victoria
there for their internationalport.
Patrick Wiscombe (24:28):
Victoria is great, but hopefully you can get
there during the day if it'sone of the uh the one-way trips,
so that you get there duringthe day instead of the four-hour
midnight.
Mark Faldmo (24:38):
Yeah, yeah, eight to midnight.
So those are kind of myfavorite ports.
Most ports that I've been to inAlaska are pretty good.
Patrick Wiscombe (24:47):
You really can't go wrong with Alaska at
all.
Since this is the cruise dealof the week, what do we have for
listeners this week?
Mark Faldmo (24:54):
So I just picked out two Alaska cruise
itineraries for next year 2026.
One is for price and one is forthe itinerary.
And the first one is aseven-day Alaska cruise on
Princess Cruises.
This one is kind of arepositioning cruises.
It's the very beginning of theseason, May 2nd.
And it starts in Vancouver andends in Seattle.
(25:17):
Um it goes to Ketchikan,Juneau, Skagway, and Glacier
Bay.
So this one is hitting all ofthose ports that we talked
about.
Yeah.
I'm just gonna give the balconycabin because it's not that
much more expensive than theinside.
It starts at $12.99 per person,which for Alaska, that's you
know, if you take this intoJune, you're up in the 2000s per
(25:42):
person.
So this is a great price forthat.
And then the next cruise, Ichose this one for the ports.
It's actually an 11-day Alaskacruise, round trip Seattle.
It's on Cunard cruise lines.
So its ports are Seattle,Victoria, Ketchikan.
Oh, so they actually stop inVictoria?
(26:03):
In Victoria, yeah.
Okay.
And then Ketchikan, Rangwrell,Alaska, Sitka, Icy Strait,
Glacier Bay, Skagway, andHubbard Glacier.
Whoa! And it is 11 days, but Iuh it hits all of the good ports
um in Alaska.
Although I see it does not hitJuneau.
(26:26):
So that's the one one port thatwe talked about that it doesn't
include.
Um but for 11-day cruise,inside start at 1589 and balcony
cabins start at 2459.
Whoa.
So, and that's mid-July.
So that's right in the peak ofsummer at the perceived best
time to go.
You just can't go wrong withAlaska ever.
Patrick Wiscombe (26:48):
And those are some great itineraries.
Take advantage of that, David.
Call Mark in his office, justget the conversation started, no
obligation.
888-718-7717.
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