The Travel Show: Hawaii & Mexico fun facts; Disney update

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Away, Guru, we have a blockbuster show for you today.
We're gonna be talking about how will the US federal
government shutdown affect your travel plans. Lisa Presley, regional key
accounts manager for Norwegian Cruise Line, will be joining us
and why you should never throw away your boarding pass.
I love Hawaii. I've been there one hundred and seventy times.

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That's a real number. And I'm gonna give you some
of my favorite places to visit in Hawahu and some
spectacular Hawaii and Mexico air and hotel deals. Italy's top
tourist destinations are cracking down with big fines on misbehaving tourists.
Make sure you're not one of them, John Potter. And

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then I'll take you to where I would live without
if it weren't for my kids and grandkids. Southeast Asia, Thailand,
the riches of the May Cong Yes, I'll be hosting
next year a river cruise with Ama Waterways on the
may Kong. And then don't forget this spring break escape
cruise over spring break for the schools in April of

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next year. I'm pleased to welcome my friend and colleague,
John Potter, one of the fine excellent, experienced, over the top.

Speaker 2 (01:15):
How's that?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
John Oh, John deduction, John Potter from Morris Columbus Travel.
John works in the Bountiful office of Morris Columbus Travel. John,
Welcome to the show. Thank you always good to be here.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Now our lead story and folks you want to put
this on your calendar is the Morris Columbus Fall Travel Exit.
Now you know that the biggest travel expo in the
Western United States is every January where Morris Columbus Travel
and over one hundred travel vendors, airlines, cruise lines, safari companies,

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tour companies, hotels, resorts, everything even travel clothing comes to
the Mountain America Expo Center. That will be January twenty
third and twenty fourth, a Friday Saturday in Saint George.
There'll be at Travel Expo on Wednesday, January twenty first.

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But John Potter tell us about the October as in
this month Fall Travel Expo sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel.

Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yes, it's two weeks from today, Saturday, October the eighteenth.
It's just the one day and this one the Northern
Utah people are going to like at the Davis Conference
Center in Leyton, Utah. The address sixteen fifty one North
seven hundred West in Leyton. You basically just take the
three thirty two exit off I fifteen and go easton

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you'll and you're there.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Get it now, free admission. Yeah, you can get all
the details at Utah travelxpo dot com. That's Utah travelxpo
dot com. Now, John, what can we expect at the expo.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
We've got a lot of vendors there that you can
talk to about travel vendors.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Tell me what a vendor is? An airline, a cruise.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
Line, companies, yes, tour companies.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
Uh huh. They'll be there.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
We're going to have seminars where you can learn about
the different destinations and products.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
We're going to.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Have travel advisors there to talk to you about possible
upcoming travel.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
And I think there's going to be some I thought
you were going to miss that.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
No, I mean the highlight is every hour travel awards
and prizes will be given away, including free airline tickets,
free cruises, hotels, stays, resorts, stays. And would it cause
any problem if I draw the winner and I draw
the name Kathy Gelwick's I think it would. Yes, I think, well,

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those information seminars. I'll actually be doing one in the morning.
Look looking forward to it again. Utah Travel Expo dot com.
That's Utah Travel Expo dot com market on your calendar,
October eighteenth at the Davis Conference Center in Leyton. Well, sir, John,
we are in the midst of a federal government shutdown.

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How is that going to affect my travel? Should I
just go out and cancel it?

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Absolutely not day Nay, No, It's really not going to
affect your travel.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
I think the only thing that we could.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Possibly see of being an issue is if your passport
has expired and you want to go quickly.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
That's going to be a tough one.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
As folks, you've probably heard in the news, a partial
government shutdown is underway after Congress those bozos failed to
pass legislation extending funding for operations past September thirtieth. That
means that federal workers will be furloughed and non essential

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duties will be suspended until a deal is reached. Now,
federal workers who are deemed essential, like the TSA.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, air traffic control.

Speaker 1 (05:03):
Traffic controllers they're and border security, they they're gonna still
be there. They're gonna still be Okay, so let me
ask you some questions. Mister potter. Will my flight be
delayed while the shutdown is going and our airports actually
open during the shutdown.

Speaker 3 (05:24):
The airports are all open and operating as normal. As
far as the flight being delayed, Your guess is as
good as mine. But it won't be because of the
government shutdown.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Isn't that the truth?

Speaker 4 (05:35):
Uh?

Speaker 5 (05:35):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
The flight should continue during the partial government shut down
since the TSA, which is Transportation Security Administration workers who
screen at the airport's security points and those who give
flight clearance and verify travelers' identities at the border are
deemed essential and still.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Required to work. All right? Uh? John?

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Are the trains like Amtrak will they be working during
government shutdown? Absolutely? Yeah, everything is going to be normal
with the if there is anything normal? What's normal anymore?
Especially on Amtrak? Actually I love trains, I do too. Okay, Well,
how about those going on I love cruises. I pack

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and unpack one time, all my meals and entertainment included.
I can be as active or as are laid back
as I want. Will cruise ports still work during a
government shutdown?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Yes, unless of the hurricane? Yeah, but that's not the
government shutdown. No, the government can't control that.

Speaker 1 (06:39):
Now here's an interesting one, John, Are national parks open
during the shutdown?

Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yes, in some instances. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (06:49):
National park operations will vary during the government shutdown. In general,
parks will remain open and park roads, lookouts, trails, and
open their memorials will generally remain accessible to visitors. Now,
the parks with accessible areas that collect fees under the

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Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act are to use balances or
money they got in the bank from those fees to
continue providing basic visitor services like restroom maintenance, trash collection,
and campground operation. However, the plan says that the FEDS

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have put out that the National Park Service will not
operate nor offer visitor services in parks without accessible areas,
though essential services like law enforcement and border security will continue. Also,
facilities in area that are typically locked or secured after

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business hours will stay locked.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
Imagine that, you know, I'm actually.

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Kathy and I are actually headed next weekend to Kansas City.
We're going to go see the Kansas City Chiefs and
the Detroit Lions. I will be having dinner with Taylor
and good Yes, but that'll be the Sunday night football folks.
I may run across the field during the game and

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make a tackle.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Please keep your clothes on. I neither confirm nor deny.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Anyway, I'm not worried at all about if the shutdown
is still going next weekend.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm not worried about it at all.

Speaker 1 (08:37):
Okay, let's turn our attention to Southwest Airlines, which has
come up with some new announcements.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
First of all, you know, John, most.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
Airlines are giving free WiFi for their frequent flyer members
like I fly Delta a lot. I have the Delta
sky Miles account, and I just usually it's when you
hit about ten thousand feet or something, I just hit
wi Fi. You put it on airplane mode. Go to settings,

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select the Delta Wi Fi, enter your sky Miles number.
You got free WiFi.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Now.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Southwest has joined the chorus of most airlines that will
give free Wi Fi in flight. But you have to
be a Rapid Rewards member and that's easy to join
at Southwest dot com forward slash rapid Rewards Now. They've
also got a for those who fly occasionally or often

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on Southwest Airlines. They have a promotion right now where
you can earn double Rapid Reward points, but you have
to register on or before Monday at eleven fifty nine
Central time, so eleven our time, yeah, exactly, and then

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book a qualifying flight on Southwest Airlines on or before Monday.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
You don't have to fly, just have to book it.

Speaker 1 (10:02):
But the flight has to take place between now and
December seventeenth, so you do have to you want a
register for that and get your double Rapid rewards. When
we come back, we'll be talking to Norwegian Cruise Lines
our dear friend Lisa Pressley, regional key accounts manager. And

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you know NCL has some fantastic promotions out there right now,
including a legitimate.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Free airfare offer.

Speaker 1 (10:32):
All that and more on today's Travel Show. You're listening
to the Travel Show and I'm Larry Gelwicks. The Getaway

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Goon were joined today by one of our best travel
advisors at Morris Columbus Travel, John Potter, who.

Speaker 2 (11:00):
Works in the Bountiful office. John, if people want to
get a hold of you direct, your phone.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
Number is eight oh one four eight three fifty two fourteen.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
Fifty two fourteen. John.

Speaker 1 (11:12):
We have one of our favorite people in the travel
industry on the phone.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
With us Da Jane. We want to welcome back to the.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
Travel Show Lisa Presley, regional key account director with none
other than one of my favorite cruise lines, Norwegian Cruise Line. Lisa,
welcome to the Travel Show.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
Hi, Larry, how are you?

Speaker 4 (11:32):
Hey?

Speaker 5 (11:32):
John?

Speaker 2 (11:33):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (11:34):
It's I am so happy to be here. Thank you
for inviting me to come back.

Speaker 2 (11:38):
It's always a pleasure to have you. Hey.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Listen, looking over your website, I see some really great
rates in the fourth quarter, which is now to the
end of December, and first quarter, which is peak season
for the sunny tropical areas, the first quarter to the Caribbean,
Mexican River in Bahamas.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
What's going on, Lisa.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
We had the opportunity to be able to offer additional
ships within the warm areas of the world, the Bahamas,
the Mexican Riviera in the Caribbean, which means that we
have additional space to offer and the price point, as
you saw, Larry, are unbelievable. Did you happen to notice

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before night did you happen to notice a four night
Bahamas listed at only two hundred and nineteen dollars?

Speaker 2 (12:30):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (12:31):
I saw that it's actually this month kind of a
last minute one. It's a Monday through Friday, so it's
five calendar days, four nights. That's in October twentieth to
the twenty fourth. But now I want to quiz John
Potter NCL sales out of Miami and out of Port
Canaveral or Orlando. If one was sailing out of Port Canaveral,

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what else would they do?

Speaker 3 (12:58):
Well, they've got a little space place there, I've heard.
But of course Walt Disney World.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (13:05):
You know, there's some fantastic rates out there for the
winter months in the Bahamas, Mexican, Revere, and Caribbean out
of the West Coast and East Coast. Now, Lisa, you
also do some wonderful discounts for military and teachers. And
these are what I call a discount on top of

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a discount. So whatever promotion is out there, you can
add what discount to it.

Speaker 5 (13:34):
Oh, this is wonderful. The military discount is the ten
percent discount, and that is for everybody within the state room.
So if you've even got a family of four traveling
in the same stateroom, all four of them, we get
ten percent off.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
What about it?

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Think teachers, it's five percent off plus they get a
fifty dollars on board credit, so it's the same thing
everybody within that room would get five percent off.

Speaker 1 (14:00):
We're speaking with Lisa Pressley, Regional key account director at
Norwegian Cruise Line.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Now, you know, I love Great Stirrup.

Speaker 1 (14:08):
Case kind of like ncl's private island in the Bahamas.
You've got some updates for us and some new amenities.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
We do.

Speaker 5 (14:17):
We're so excited. We have been in the process of
building a dock at Great Syrup k so we're going
to be able to have two ships that are going
to come in and dock, so our guests will be
able to walk onto the island, and once they get
onto the island, they're going to be able to enjoy
a wonderful large, over twenty eight thousand square feet he

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needed pool. The pool's going to have a swim up
bar area, there's going to be cabanas all around it.
But my favorite thing though, absolutely is all the water
slides that we're in the process also building a water park,
so there's going to be tons of things for people
to do to enjoy getting wet and enjoy that sunshine.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Obviously, John, we should broadcast live from Great stirrup k.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I think we should.

Speaker 1 (15:04):
I think we should. Now I want to ask you,
Lisa about some promotions. And honestly, I've said this on
the air many times. I think the NCL promotions are
as good as they get. I'm going to start with
I think the one of the best is the free

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airfare promotion of Bogo, Buy one, get one.

Speaker 2 (15:28):
Would you explain that to us, because this one is
off the charts.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
It is.

Speaker 5 (15:32):
It is a fantastic deal.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Is where.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
The first guest within the state room pays for their
air and then guests number two gets their air for free.

Speaker 4 (15:44):
You know, literally it is, and it really is.

Speaker 1 (15:47):
I'm going to tell you my experience because I have,
as you know, travel and take groups on NCL all
the time, including just this summer we had that wonderful
group on the Prima from Iceland to England and Norway
and Amsterdam and bruises in between. Here's been my experience

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that and John, you tell me what you've seen with clients.
I've seen some what I call legal scams where they
say we'll give you a free airline ticket, but they
jacked the price of the first one up so much
it pays for the second, it's no deal. What I've
found with NCL, Lisa, is that first ticket is a deal.

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It's either at or below what I could buy a
ticket myself for. That's absolutely true.

Speaker 2 (16:37):
So it's a deal.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
We've got about a minute and a half, Lisa, I
want to talk about More at Sea.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Would you explain that to our listeners? Oh?

Speaker 5 (16:46):
Absolutely, More at c is our promotion there where our
guests get to enjoy unlimited beverages, specialty dining, short excursion credits,
and a Wi Fi package. And it can be so
valuable when you're cruising, especially since we have itineraries that
have no at sea days. We're going to be import

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every day and you'll book a short excursion, so guests
number one gets to save fifty dollars.

Speaker 4 (17:11):
Per short excursion.

Speaker 5 (17:14):
Well, that's a huge value.

Speaker 2 (17:16):
Very quickly, Cruise Next.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
Cruise Next is a great program where our guests, Yeah,
where the guests get to buy a certificate and they
double their money on it, so you can pay one
hundred and fifty dollars you get a three hundred dollars value.
And then occasionally we run special where you pay two
hundred and fifty dollars and you get a five hundred
dollars credit and that would be your deposit for your

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next creuse.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Now we got about thirty seconds. Lisa.

Speaker 1 (17:42):
There's also on select cruises the Cruise Next double up
where you can double that cruise next benefit.

Speaker 5 (17:51):
Correct, correct the cruise. I'm sorry, I actually explained the
Cruise first program the first time that I get so
excited about that. One certificates are where our guests purchase
those when they're on the ship, and they tay two
hundred and fifty dollars for that, and they get one
hundred dollars on board credit to be able.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
To spend and then in your example, the two hundred
and fifty dollars towards that. We got to say goodbye
to Lisa Presley, Regional key account Director of ncl A
Great Cruise Life. Thank you, Lisa. You're listening to the

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Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwick's Day get Away Google, your
host for thirty four.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
Years, are still going strong.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
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eight eight five seventy eighty ten. Okay, mister Potter. We
just had Norwegian Cruise Line one of their top officials

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on the phone, who outline some promotions. Well, what about
Princess and Royal Caribbean. We love those cruise lines.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
Oh, yes, there's not a bad one out there. What
promos have they got? Okay?

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Princess has up to forty percent off all cruises, plus
on select cruises an additional two hundred dollars instant savings,
and on select cruises the third and fourth person staying
in the same stateroom are free. They would pay taxes only.

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Royal Caribbean save up to nine hundred dollars plus an
additional one hundred dollars bonus on their Alaska cruises for
twenty twenty six and again on select sailing Kids sale
free now on Royal Caribbean kids are considered ages twelve
and under. On the waterways, free airfare the cruise. This

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is a river cruise. Yes on on the river. Free
air on select twenty twenty five through twenty twenty seven
Egypt sailings, so free airfare to Egypt.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
Let me tell you something about Is that for both guests? Yes?
Oh wow, and that's until when twenty six and twenty seven.

Speaker 1 (21:12):
Now what the Egypt is that? That's usually with AMA
a cruise tour. When I've done that. We spent three
days in Cairo. We stayed at the four Seasons Hotel.
I don't know what they're using now, but it's five star.
Spent three days. You know, Memphis, Giza, Sakara and the
New Egyptian Museum. They have the downtown one you can

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visit that.

Speaker 2 (21:37):
You know.

Speaker 1 (21:37):
What I love in Cairo is the Khan el Khalili Bazaar.
It's like stepping back in time. The Kiosks and the
souk as they call it, and shopping. Oh, it's just crazy.
But they got a new museum out near Giza and
they have over fifty thousand new artifacts displayed that they

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didn't have room for.

Speaker 2 (21:59):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (22:00):
But anyway, So then you go up to Luxor, and
if you haven't seen Luxor, you really haven't seen Egypt.
You have the East and the West Nile up there,
the Avenue of it's called Avenue of the Dead. You
can actually see a moon is his proper pronunciation of king.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah, a moon.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
His mummified body is in a glass to well, you
can see his teeth and fingernail. I mean this was
a real It was the boy king or pharaoh. He
ascended to the throne about ages nine or ten and
was on the throne for about nine years. He was
a hunter. He loved to hunt a lot of those.
And then so it's a one week Nile cruise. You

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can get up to Abu Simbal and then you go
back to Cairo and there.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yeah, so to be able to do that cruise and
get free airfare, it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (22:55):
It is insane. Okay, what else you got.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
Viking either Oshan or river cruises free airfare from select cities.
If you're not one of those select cities, it's severely
discounted twenty five dollars deposits and your choice. You can
choose either a one thousand excuse me, up to one
thousand dollars on board credit, or you can get the

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free Silver Spirits package including the gratuities.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Now those of course Viking. Viking does ocean cruises too,
but you're talking here about river cruises.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
Oh, both Ocean, Ocean and Viking. Hey, i'd like your.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Comment on something that Lisa Pressley with NCL who was
on our show just the last segment. She talked about
this free airfare. How do your clients react to that
getting a free airline ticket?

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Most really like it. Now, there are a few restrictions
you need to be aware of. First of all, you
have to be four months or more from saving date. Yeah,
if you're less than four months, you do not get
the airfare deal and you get the air they give you.
You do not get to choose your airline. You do airline, Yes,
it's not going to be you.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
Know, it's not Bob's air service, that's right.

Speaker 1 (24:12):
Now, Why do they pick the airline rather than let
us pick the airline.

Speaker 3 (24:16):
They have special contracts and special rates with select airlines,
and it varies by destination, both where you're leaving from
and where you're going to, and so that's the main reason.

Speaker 1 (24:27):
Well, you know I have done the NCL Prima from Rekuvik,
Iceland to London twice, once in each direction. And the
first time we flew on Iceland air with a connection
on Alaska Airlines and Luftansa with a change of planes
in Frankfurt. This last time we were dealt around trip.

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You cannot request the airline. Oh no, they've told me
they're talking about letting people request and and if it's approved,
there'll probably be a fee with it, but that's not
present yet. It's a great promotion. You know, I have
a cruise group. If you've done this cruise, I have

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done that South Pacific, the South Seas Polynesia will be
sailing next May May. Let's see fifteenth through the twenty
seventh from Tahiti to Hawaii with free airfare on the
NCL Bogo as we have buy one, get one Yeah,
and you know this itinerary is off the chart. You

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have Tahiti, Moorea right Yetaya by the way. The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints has announced a
temple at right Yeta. They have one on Tahiti and Papiete,
but it's it's closer to a lot of the outer
islands where people can't get to the maine. You know,

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here's a misnomer. I want to visit the Tahitian Islands.
What's the problem with that, potter, There's no place. Let's
just play. I want to visit the island of Tahiti
that you can do. Tahiti is one island, not a collection.
It's part of the Society Islands. Actually in French Polynesia,
there are five island groups, one of course you've heard of,

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which is the Society Islands, the Tuomotu Archipelago, the Marquesas Islands,
the austral Group and the Gambier Group. And those last
two are very very remote. I love Polynesia and there's
still some good fairs. With free airfare. We'll have our
own private shore excursions. We'll be doing some things the

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cruise line doesn't even do, and they are fantastic. Think
of Gilligan's Island. We have an activity out on a
private motu.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
That is an island favorite excursion.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
It is now Bora Bora, which we visit Bora Bora
and it's surrounded, as most of the islands are in
French Polynesia, by a log which means the waters are
calm inside the lagoon. Yeah, that's where the ship sails
right in there. James Mishner, the famous author, said that
Bora Bora was the single most beautiful island in the world.

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It's dominated by Mount Otomanu. I mean, just think of
your mental images. It speaks to you. You look at
it and just the visual is speaking to you of
what the South Seas must be. It's surrounded by motus
and a turquoise lagoon. Now what Kathy and I really
like to do at Borabora is we'll get a jet ski.

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You can get for one person or two persons. You
want to see Kathy drive that jet ski. I'm holding
on for dear life. Anyway, you completely circle the island
of Bora Bora inside the lagoon, so it's not waves,
it's not crashing ocean or anything. Stopping at Muto, we'll

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pick up a little pick nick lunch at the market there,
grab our jet ski and just go have our own
Gilligan's Island experience.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Yeah, the thing about Borbora, I have never seen a
picture of Borbora that does it justice, not once. Yoh,
it is much more beautiful in person.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
And you know, I'm a diver. I go to dives.
But that's another shit. You're a dive. Not what you're thinking, Potterer.

Speaker 1 (28:25):
Anyway, Now, inside the lagoon you can dive with the
giant manta rays twenty three foot wingspan. But I, being
partially nuts, maybe completely nuts, I go diving outside the
lagoon in open ocean and the shelf which is the

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reef and the island going down to ocean bottom. But
the shelf on the reef drops. Oh, it's just almost.
It's not straight down, but almost. So I'm down about
eighty feet on my last dive in Bora Bora, and
I back up so that my tanks are right against
the shelf because I am counting thirteen sharks. Wow, now

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that I should just leave it at that, and you'll
think that I'm hercules, but I'm not. These were reef sharks,
gray tips, you know, some lemon sharks. There were no
makos or great whites. And by the way, you don't
see any big sharks inside the lagoon. It's perfectly safe
for diving anyway. So we'll visit Bora Bora, will cruise

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through the Twomo To Archipelago, the twomote. I just mentioned that, right,
Yetea Tahiti, Moorea. James Mischer said, the most beautiful island
is Bora Bora. I agree, But for me, the most
beautiful place on Earth is open Noahubei. I'll tell you
about it some other time.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
We're coming out at the Green Oh my gosh. And
then we head.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Nora, crossing the Equator into the Hawaiian Islands and we'll
visit the Hawaiian Islands May fifteenth to the twenty seventh
with free airfare. Prices are still good. Give John a
call or any of our Morris Columbus. I will be
your personal host and tour guide, not only exclusive shore excursions,

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but we'll have onboard private activities you don't want to miss.

Speaker 2 (30:25):
Wow, that was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
There are three letters you never want to see on
your passport ss SS for s's. This means secondary security
screening selection by the US Department of Homeland Security. They
may even take you into a private room which they

(30:52):
often do for enhanced security.

Speaker 2 (30:56):
I'll let your imagination run say it. You know what
I'm talking I know what you're talking about. I'm not
saying that will happen.

Speaker 1 (31:04):
Yeah, But and John, when that happens, you don't ask
for a second opinion.

Speaker 2 (31:10):
Anyway.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
Fun, fun time. Hey, when we come back, we are
headed you Hawaii and Mexico with Pluto.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (31:33):
I'm Mary Gelwick's the Getaway Duru and today it's the
Travels Show and it's thirty fourth year. I'm joined today
by John Potter, travel Advisor in the Bountiful office of
Morris Columbus Travel. If you'd like to talk to John direct,
especially about all things Disney, actually all things travel eight
o one four eight three fifty two fourteen. I want

(31:56):
to remind you of the Morris Columbus Travel Travel Expo Saturday,
October eighteenth. It's a one day event, free admission. It
will bring together over fifty travel advisors, excuse me, travel vendors, airlines,
cruise lines, tour companies, safari companies, resorts and hotels. Now

(32:18):
we usually have up there fifty to sixty, but in
Salt Lake in January it's over one hundred. Why the difference, John.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
We have a bigger space down there.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
That's all we can fit at the Davis Conference Center
in Layton. Check out all the details again. Free admission
at Utah Travel Expo dot com. That's Utah Travelexpo dot com. Saturday,
October eighteenth, at the Davis Conference Center in Leyton, John,
I mentioned earlier, and this is a true number. I

(32:49):
have been to Hawaii one hundred and seventy times. I've
kept track. I used years ago, decades ago. I used
to commute there once or twice a week for years,
and you can rack up a lot of trips. Oh yeah,
that way. And my very first trip to Hawaii, I
was sixteen years old. I was a surfer boy growing

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up in California, San Francisco. We do some surfing at
Ocean Beach there, but we preferred to cut school and
go down to Santa Cruz. And you know, and then
the girls were much prettier in Santa Cruz than at
Ocean Beach. So you know, Testostern was driving me at

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age sixteen anywhere.

Speaker 2 (33:33):
I'm sure you're the only one that's ever happened.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Of course, of course, of course, anyway, so I went
to Hawaii at age sixteen. I got some great pictures
of me sitting on the beach playing the guitar. A
lot of fun. You know, Hawaii is so interesting to me.
There are one hundred and thirty two islands and atolls,

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but eight major ones.

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Can you name them? I think so Awahu, which of
course one everyone knows, Kawaii. Nih howe, that's the Forbidden Eyland.

Speaker 3 (34:07):
Yes, Lena, the big island of Hawaii, Maui, and yes.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
Nobody lives in Caho Lave.

Speaker 1 (34:19):
It was a bombing range during the Vietnam War and
World War Two for the pilots to practice dropping bombs,
and there's still unexploded ordinances or bombs. You don't want
to go walking around. Did you know that pineapple is
not native? I did know that it's not native to Hawaii.

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Was it was likely brought by the Spanish. In fact,
the very first recorded planting of pineapple in Hawaii was
by a Spanish advisor, Don Francisco de Paula Martin in
eighteen thirteen. Wow, eighteen thirteen, now the first year, and
to visit was Captain James Cook.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
You know, it was on January eighteenth, seventeen seventy eight.

Speaker 1 (35:06):
When Carlos Feeda was just a young man that he
sailed past Oahu and landed at Wayameya Bay on Kawaii. Now,
one of the things I really like is no snakes. Yes,
there are no and you think of jungles, there has
to be some boa constructor out.

Speaker 2 (35:24):
No, there are no stakes with that.

Speaker 1 (35:28):
So if what a Wahu is the most visited island, yes,
I I call Waikiki the Tiawan of the Pacific. But
that's with affection. I love Waikiki Beach. So what are
some of the things you like to do on the
island of Oahu.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
My most favorite thing, and that sounds silly, but I
love to walk up and down Kawakawa Avenue at night.
All the street vendors are out. They don't have street lights,
They've got the tiki torches that are going, oh yeah.
It is just such a beautiful atmosphere. But I do
love that. Of course, the Polynesian Cultural Center, I love
the Dual Plantation. There's just I just love that island.

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There is so many fun things to do.

Speaker 4 (36:08):
You know.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
Some of the things I enjoy is you said the PCC.
There's three restaurants that I really love over there now
on the north shore near Kahuku. They have an area
of food trucks, about a dozen of them. My favorite
is Giovanni's garlic shrimp. That's all they sell. Yeah, I've seen,
I've but I've seen it now.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
A restaurant that closed some years ago.

Speaker 1 (36:34):
It's on the north side of the island near Kahana Bay.
Is the Crouching Line, the most beautiful setting and they
have a steak that they slice for you with garlic
butter is to die for.

Speaker 2 (36:47):
The other is Roy's.

Speaker 1 (36:49):
They have a location Waikiki and out one in Hawaii Kai.
My absolute go to there is fresh old pakapaka fish
encrusted with macadamia nuts and they kind of a butter
sauce goes over now. Opaka paca is also known as
the Hawaiian pink snapper. Let's talk about a great way

(37:10):
to get to Hawaii. You know, Hawaii's gotten expensive, it has,
but Morris Columbus Travel has found with what I call
the secret airfares, those tour operator fairs air and hotel
let me give you one now. The rates do vary
by departure date and a subject to availability and change
at the time of booking. You know, early December is
a great time to go to Mexico or Hawaii. December

(37:34):
third to the eighth, six days, five nights. You can
add more days with airfare, hotel and taxes. The resort
fee has to be paid in person right there, nine
hundred and eighteen dollars at a first class hotel, the Outrigger,
which is a great hotel chain.

Speaker 2 (37:52):
It is the Outrigger.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Waikiki Paradise Hotel photed the best major renovation.

Speaker 2 (37:58):
In Honolulu in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (38:01):
More when we come back in our number two, Welcome
back to our number two of the Travel Show. In
the past two hours in radio, I'm Larry Gelwick's your
getaway Guru.

Speaker 2 (38:19):
Yep. Do you know Don Schaeffer gave me that name
when in the early days of the Travel Show. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
Don was a co host and such a great guy.
And I'll tell you something. When he gave me that name,
he kept calling me the getaway Guru. And I would
say to him off the air, that's so cheesy, don't
call me that, and he just but it's stuck. And
now it's a term of affection. Even my kids say,
the Guru has just arrived.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
Yes, and he's the one that named me Pluto as well.

Speaker 1 (38:49):
That's right by the way. You're gonna be at the
Morris Columbus Travel Fall Expo October eighteenth, Yeah, Saturday, at
the Davis Conference Center in Laighton. Free admission details at
Utah Travel Expo dot com. Will you be wearing your
Pluto hat?

Speaker 2 (39:08):
I will bring it with me. I didn't ask you
if you're going to bring it with you. I will
wear it. Thank you very much.

Speaker 1 (39:14):
It wouldn't be a travel expo without Pluto wearing his hat.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Listen, I just want to finish up.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
We're talking about that Hawaii special again. Rates vary by
departure date, subject to availability and change at the time
of booking. You know, six days, five nights, early December
at the Outrigger Waikiki Paradise Hotel.

Speaker 2 (39:35):
Now.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
As reported in travel Agews, which is a travel agency
publication of travel news for traveling, it was voted in
twenty twenty five as the best new resort or major
renovation They renovated the best in Hawaii now.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Its location is pretty good.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
It's right next to the international market side, but on
the backsid it's on Kukuio Avenue. You have Kalikawa and
then a block back you have Cohiel and it's just
off Cohil Avenue. They do a lot of things, a
gorgeous pool, absolutely spectacular fitness center of course, where I
spend most of my time, and on Fridays there's lay

(40:17):
making oy that's so much fun. It won the trip
Advisor Travelers Choice Awards and a couple of blocks to
the beach. It's a great hotel. Now. Mexico is a
great deal. All inclusive. What does all inclusive mean?

Speaker 3 (40:34):
All inclusive is all of your meals, drinks, non motorized water, sports, gratuities, transfers.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
Airfare, everything.

Speaker 1 (40:43):
It's called all inclusive because it is all inclusive. Here's
a couple during the winter months again in that early December.
I'm looking at December third to the eighth, six days.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Five nights. You can add more days to it.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
In Pertobayarta, Now this is a really top quality three
and a half star hotel.

Speaker 2 (41:06):
I've been there.

Speaker 1 (41:06):
It's a great hotel, The Hacienda Buena Aventura, all inclusive.
I've stayed there. I'd go back there again in a heartbeat.
How about nine hundred and eighty three dollars now? There's
no resort fee. That is everything you could literally go
without a peso.

Speaker 2 (41:24):
And it's right downtown.

Speaker 1 (41:26):
It is you know, it's a short walk to the
start of the Molikan. Yeah, which is it's about a
mile plus of pedestrian street with shops, canteenas, dancing street, entertainers, restaurants,
everything imaginable. And it's right along the water too. It's
a beautiful boulevard. Now, o, we're in Cancun. A first

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class four harst to hotel.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
You know the.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
Crystal, Oh, yes, spelled with a K, Crystal Grand Conkun.

Speaker 2 (41:55):
That's a fabulous hotel.

Speaker 1 (41:57):
I was looking at February nineteen teenth of the twenty fourth. Again,
six days, five nights. You can add days to it.
One thoy forty two per person. Now let me tell
you I personally, I mean I'll go to Cancun anytime.
Oh yes, but the summer, you know, summer months starting
in about July through about October November, there is a

(42:22):
Sargassum seaweed flotilla throughout the Caribbean. Yes, And what I mean, folks,
is the seaweed piles up on the beaches. Now, the
nice resorts like the Crystal, they have to scoop it
up every day. But it's also in the water and
it's kind of bothersome, yes, but you get into now.

(42:43):
Seaweed can come anytime, but traditionally it's about July, June,
July to October, sometimes November. This is February, and I
love the Cancun When you can go at.

Speaker 2 (42:56):
A first class hotel for one thousand per person. That's
nuts and you're not buying food. It's included. Everything is included. Now.

Speaker 1 (43:08):
Scam artists are everywhere in the travel business. Oh, you've
won a free crews. You just need a fifty dollars
registration fee. Give me your credit card. You've got free
hotel nights, give me your credit card. One of the
most damaging scams right now our airline reservation centers, but

(43:34):
not the real airline, the fake, the scammer. So here's
what's going on right now. You will sit and google
say Delta Airlines, United Airlines, Singapore Airlines, whatever airline you're
flying on, because you want to call them, maybe you
want to change your dates, maybe you want to simply reconfirm,
and usually a sponsored response will come up. But it's

(43:59):
a scammer and they'll answer it Delta Airlines, Singapore Airlines,
American Airlines. Well I want to change my date. Well
when are you traveling? Well, I'm going November one to
Florida and I'm coming back to ninth, but I want
to come back to tenth or I want to come
back to seventh. Okay, we can make that change. It'll

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be the same itinerary, but it'll be four hundred dollars.
The scammer will ask you for your credit card.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
And you're going to give it to him. Yes.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
Now, if you simply want to reconfirm with the often
says well there's some new taxes or you know, we
had trouble with your credit card, let's just reconfirm it.
They're thieves out there, So if you want the number
for an airline, contact your travel advisor who can give

(44:50):
it to you, or just you know, you type in
official site, yes and look it over. Look at their URL,
you know, their their email or their websiteite website, look
at that. A lot of scammers out there now, and
the same with cruise lines. The cruise issue. Absolutely, it's

(45:12):
it's it's shocking. Now, let's play stump the dummy. We
haven't played stump to dummy with you in a while.
It's been a while. Okay, you are mister Disney. Seriously,
John Potter knows more about Disney than any person that
I know of on the planet. My daughter Jenny is

(45:33):
a number two. She's pretty good, but she's not in
your league. So we're gonna put you on the spot.
Can you name, mister Potter? All seven dwarfs?

Speaker 2 (45:44):
I think so, let's try. Let me check them off. Okay,
Dopey yep, Sneezy yep, grumpy I know you're talking about
Carlos you. Oh thank you. Doc.

Speaker 1 (45:56):
All right, we got dopey, sneezy, grumpy, Doc two more bashful.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
And my demeanor my personality? Yeah grumpy, no, happy?

Speaker 1 (46:08):
Happy? Okay you are grumpy. Who is the only dwarf
not to have a beard?

Speaker 2 (46:14):
Oh dope? Oh that was too easy.

Speaker 1 (46:16):
What is the only Disney Disney lead character never to
speak a word?

Speaker 2 (46:24):
I thought these were gonna be hard, Dumbo?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
Hey, I got you once on EPCOT? You did you
had you knew the answer?

Speaker 2 (46:33):
Okay? What does EPCOT stand for?

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow?

Speaker 1 (46:38):
That was you know, I've only stumped Potter one time,
and you had a brain freeze cause you know the answer.

Speaker 2 (46:44):
All right.

Speaker 1 (46:45):
One more, when Bambi encounters as Skunk for the first time,
what does he call him?

Speaker 2 (46:51):
He should have called him stinky, but he called him flower. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
One more, what's the name of the wood carver who
made Pinocchio? You know you can get geppetto things all
over Italy?

Speaker 2 (47:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (47:06):
Hey, we got about two minutes left, John, Any Disney
updates of what's going on.

Speaker 3 (47:12):
Yes, Disney Cruise Lines, the Disney Adventureship, which is their
first of a kind ship. It's going to be saying
out of Singapore was going to be coming out December fifteenth.
They have now changed it to March tenth. They're saying
it's shipyard delays. But I find it interesting that they
had its sea test and the next day they announced

(47:34):
the delay. So I'm guessing it failed the sea test.
Never a good side, never a good signe.

Speaker 1 (47:40):
It won't sail with passengers until it does, Yes, exactly.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
Disney is going to have two ships in Alaska in
the twenty twenty sixth season.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
Right now, they have one out of Vancouver, is it yep?

Speaker 3 (47:52):
The Disney Wonder round trip from Vancouver. Next year they're
going to have the two sister ships, the Disney Wonder
and the Disney Magic Round Trip.

Speaker 2 (48:00):
For what's your favorite Disney ship, regardless of where it sails?
What is it the Fantasy? Why?

Speaker 3 (48:07):
I just love the feeld of the ship. In fact,
I was just on that ship two weeks ago, and
I just love it. I love all the ships I've
been on, all but one, and I love them, all
of them that I've been on, and they're all great.

Speaker 1 (48:21):
Okay, why Disney? We got about thirty seconds. Disney cruises.
Disney's expensive, they are Is it worth it?

Speaker 2 (48:29):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Why the entertainment? All the cruise ships have great entertainment,
But whenever I go on a Disney cruise, it's like, Oh,
I had forgot about this entertainment. On the ship we
was just on the Fantasy. We had Frozen, the musical
version of Frozen performed live.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
And some of the ships have malon and all soft drinks.

Speaker 1 (48:50):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (48:50):
Can we come back.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
I'm taking you to Anchor What Cambodia.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
You're listening to the travel show.

Speaker 1 (49:07):
I'm Larry Gelwicks, Doc Tari, You're official tour guide to
all places around the globe.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
I'm joined today by John Potter.

Speaker 1 (49:17):
John is one of the travel advisors at Morris Columbus Travel.
You want to talk to John Direct eight oh one
four eight three fifty two fourteen. If you already have
a favorite Morris Columbus travel advisor, call that person him
or her. If you don't have one, you can call
John or call eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six,

(49:40):
and do check out the website Morriscolumbus dot com. Now
we're gonna play stump the dummy again, but I don't
think I'm gonna stump you on this one one question.
If it weren't for my children and grandchildren, where would
Kathy and I live Tijuana? I've jumped him now a

(50:00):
second time, once with Epcot.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
Where would I live Potter Thailand? Thailand? I love Southeast Asia.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Thailand is where I'd lived, but my travels would all
the time take me to Laos, to Cambodia, to Vietnam.
I come alive, I mean, I just when I get
off the plane in Bangkok, I'm giddy. I'm so excited.
I can feel it in the air. And I go
back to so many of the same places, the same restaurants.

(50:31):
I have friends that live there, it's the people, the
culture of Southeast Asia, the graciousness and the food. John,
don't even get me started on the food. By the way,
I keep looking for a great Thai restaurant. We used
to in Bountiful. We used to have a Cambodian restaurant.
The food was fantastic, but nobody knew. You know what

(50:53):
Chinese is, you know what Thie is? What is you know?
The thing is this monkey brain in coconut milk. No,
they don't eat monkey brain. That's Philippines. They just kidding,
just kidding. The food was fantastic. But you have in
Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, everything from tropical islands, rice patties,

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elephants to the actual foothills of the Himalayas.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
And do you like massage? It's part of the culture.

Speaker 1 (51:26):
Now you can get if you at the hotels and resorts.
You're gonna pay well, it will be less than US
resort prices. But still it's you know, up there, it's
like forty or fifty bucks instead of one hundred and
fifty that we have here. But there's a lot of
good neighborhood ones that are perfectly safe, perfectly clean, well trained,

(51:47):
where you can get a massage for oh about twelve
to fifteen bucks. In Cambodia for eight bucks and its quality. Now,
Kathy and I, they have two types of massage there.
One is what they will call aroma therapy. They're using
an aromatic oil as much like a Swedish massage. Then

(52:09):
they have the time massage where they'll give you it's
like hospital scrubs. It's more acu pressure and they're both wonderful.
Kathy and I have we love to do the couple's
massage in the same room, separate tables. But we have
this joke every time we go to Thailand, Okay, we're
going to get a massage every day. We never have

(52:30):
and never will, but it's our joke with that. Oh
the foot massage that's like five bucks and your feet
are just rubbery, wonderful at the end because you've been
all day walking and shopping. So I have a trip.
I'd like to invite you guys on. I'll be your
personal host in tour. And I actually got two of

(52:52):
them next year, actually I have three of them next year.

Speaker 2 (52:56):
One is sold out. You know.

Speaker 1 (52:57):
Every January I take a group to Thailand and Cambodia
and let the January twenty twenty six sold out in
one week.

Speaker 2 (53:07):
Yeah. Well, last week.

Speaker 1 (53:12):
Wendy Frakier, Group department manage I were talking and she
asked that was so popular. Would you take a second
group in February? And I said yes, And what in
a couple of days we now have I think two
or three rooms left for singles or couples.

Speaker 2 (53:32):
They'll probably be gone by the end of next week.

Speaker 1 (53:34):
Yeah, I mean I will take you. I will show
you Thailand, you'll see Cambodia. The departure today, we'll be
flying Delta Airlines. Think of the sky miles you're gonna get. Yeah,
we'll fly non stop to Sol and then soel down
to Bangkok and we fly round trip from Bangkok. Do

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you know what's interesting is Bangkok is the only major
Asian city with no NonStop service from the United States.

Speaker 2 (54:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
Yeah, they have NonStop service from Europe, but not from
the US. So you got to change planes somewhere. This
is one plane change going you fly NonStop to Soul,
quickly down to Bangkok. So the dates on my February tour,
we'll depart January thirtieth. If you only want to do Thailand,

(54:30):
you'll fly home February thirteenth. If you want to do
Cambodian Anchor Wa Anchor Tom, which to me is an
absolute must, you will depart Pouquette on February twelve and
fly home February sixteenth. So it's what twelve thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen,
five days, five calendar days.

Speaker 3 (54:51):
After that long flight. Why would you not want to
stay into Cambodi. Well, it's Anchor what one of the
great wonders of the world.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
But it was built, started to construct, started in the
ninth century, but from the twelfth to the fourteenth it
was the most educated, enlightened civilization part of the Kimer Empire,
with over one million people living right there, you know,
in that Kimer area of Sea and Reap, that's where
Anchor Wat is. There are over eight hundred temples. Only

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two hundred have been fully recovered. The others have jungle
on them. So that's January now when the other one
January thirtieth to the sixteenth. If you do Cambodia, to me,
it's I mean, you're in the neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (55:36):
John, do it. It is one of the world.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
Now when we come back In the next segment, I'm
going to tell you about an Alma Waterways.

Speaker 2 (55:46):
How good is Alma Waterways. They're the best.

Speaker 1 (55:48):
I love deluxe river cruise on the Mighty may Kong.
Now we will sail from through Cambodia and Vietnam. We
have pre cruise option in Thailand. In bangkokt I will
be with you the whole time and show you it's
kind of the backwaters of Thailand and Cambody. Yes, you'll

(56:12):
see Panampan and Saigon, but I want to tell you
about tan Chow. When we come back. You got to
go with me to Tanchow, one of my favorite favorite
places in all of Southeast Asia.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
Right here on the Travel.

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Show, Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks
to get away at Guru. The Travel Show is sponsored

(56:52):
by Morris Columbus Travel, where you always travel more.

Speaker 2 (56:55):
And pay less.

Speaker 1 (56:56):
Check out their website at Morriscolumbus dot com.

Speaker 2 (57:00):
That's Morris Columbus dot com.

Speaker 1 (57:02):
I'm joined today by John Potter, travel Advisor with Morris
Columbus Travel in the Bountiful Office. You can talk to
John direct at eight oh one for eight three fifty
two fourteen Now John in the last segment I mentioned
we added last week that I would take another group
to Thailand and in the itineraries Thailand and Cambodia, and

(57:26):
I want to show you Thailand, and we will leave
the January sold out the January fourth group, but so
we'll leave with Delta Airlines January thirtieth. And if you
do Thailand and Cambodia, you'll come back February sixteen. If
you do Thailand only, you'll come back February thirteen. I

(57:48):
think we got two, maybe three rooms left. That would
be three singles or three couples or some combination. November
to February is when you want to be in this
part of the world. The weather is so much better. So, folks,
i'd love to have you join me now in November

(58:10):
of twenty twenty six. It's a very different experience, John.
It'll be with Alma Waterways, which you just love absolutely
and you know you pack and unpack one time. So
we'll be sailing through Cambodia and Vietnam. I just mentioned
that Tan Choo is one of my It's a backwater.

(58:31):
It's a village in Vietnam that tourists don't get to
it's like stepping back in time. It's a small may
Kung river town, unspoiled by tourism. You'll get a real
experience there. We also have a shilao, a trishaw ride

(58:52):
around town and this. They're famous for their silk and
rattan matt making. Here you'll see some of the artists
do doing that. Sadek now Sadek is another Again, these
are backwater villages. It's like stepping back in time from
the comfort of an Almah Waterway. So the actual Alma

(59:12):
Waterways cruise dates are November nine to sixteen, November of
next year, a lot of time to plan. Now here's
what we did, John, is we bought half the ship.
Now these are smaller than the europe Like Ryan Rivery. Yes,
these hold about eighty people. We bought half the ship.
I say we bought it. We bought it. We bought

(59:34):
it and we still have some space left.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
But here's what happens.

Speaker 1 (59:39):
Because we bought it and take inventory risk, our prices
are four to five to six hundred to over one
thousand dollars less per person. Why because we bought them
and it's locked in and it's locked in. Now, these
four or five six hundred dollars or more to over

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a thousand per person is below. If you were to
book that directly with Armah Waterways or any other travel agency,
you're gonna pay four or five six to over one
thousand dollars more. You've wanted to see Southeast Asia, and
I hope you've wanted to see it with me. Now
pre cruise, we have two options and one post cruise.

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Pre cruise, there's a Thailand option. Three nights in Bangkok.
We'll make a man humble. I think this one night, yeah,
one night.

Speaker 5 (01:00:35):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:00:35):
I love Bangkok. I just I love.

Speaker 1 (01:00:38):
I'm gonna be in Bangkok later this month, and I
am giddy.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 (01:00:42):
I've already told Kathy, we're gonna go to this restaurant,
this restaurant, We're gonna shopping here, We're gonna do this everything.

Speaker 2 (01:00:50):
Anyway.

Speaker 1 (01:00:51):
So with that, then there's also a pre cruise. From
the cruise you won't have time to We leave from
sea and Reap and that's the city and airport where
Anchor Wat is and uh, it's one of the wonders.

Speaker 2 (01:01:09):
And you can't see it. Now here's a fun one.
I'm gonna Uh. Bo Tin is my h Cambodia guide.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Great story when he was kidnapped by the Kimer Rouge,
his parents shot by Paul Pott and the Kimmer.

Speaker 2 (01:01:26):
Great story.

Speaker 1 (01:01:27):
But anyway, when you go to Anchor Watt, you go
and you have to buy a ticket in person with
your picture on it, so that you can't just hand
the ticket to somebody else. That really spooked about that,
So everybody gets their picture taken. Bo Tin uh And
I've dealt with him for twenty years. But the very
first group I ever took, he's looking through them, sorting

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them out, looking up at the group, sorting them out,
can't figure out who's who. And he comes up to
me and hands them to me and says, Larry, will
you pass them out? You all look the same to me.

Speaker 5 (01:02:06):
You know.

Speaker 1 (01:02:07):
So that's pre cruise. There are options, you don't have
to do them. But post cruise, the ship disembarks about
an hour from Saigon or Ho Chi Minh city is
the Vietnam's call it. Now you go straight to the
airport and fly home. But you're there, when are you
ever going to get back? So we have a two

(01:02:28):
night option at the end where we see everything it's
just absolutely fascinating the history that's there. So the cruise
dates are November ninth to the sixteenth. You want the Bangkok,
Thailand and Anchor Wat option, you'd leave before that. If
you join me in Saigon for two days, you'd fly

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home the eighteenth. Remember, folks, we have bought the cabins
anywhere from four or five six hundred dollars per person
below AMA's website up to over one thousand dollars less
per person.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
Come with me.

Speaker 1 (01:03:08):
Let me show you Southeast Asia and why I love
it so incredibly much.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Hey, Alaska. What do you love about Alaska? John?

Speaker 3 (01:03:17):
Everything? I think it's mainly the beauty. It's just so
beautiful there. And I've been there probably twelve thirteen times,
and every time has been a different experience. It's you
just never know what to expect in Alaska.

Speaker 1 (01:03:30):
You know That's I made that comment to someone just
this last week. They were talking to me about Alaska,
and I said, I go every year. I take a group,
a cruise group every year, and while we stop at
the same ports of call, every trip is different.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Yeah, it really is. Did you know have you ever
seen the Northern lights? I have a couple of times. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:54):
Do you know the Northern Lights or Aurora Borealis can
be seen on average in Alaska two hundred and forty
three days a year. Yeah, it's crazy. There are two
hundred and twenty four federally recognized tribes and twenty indigenous
language spoken in the state. I love Alaska. You know

(01:04:20):
what do you like to do in Ketchikan?

Speaker 2 (01:04:23):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:04:24):
I love I like walking the downtown district. They're the
red light district. They called it beck in the in
the break Street street. Now it's boutiques and restaurants.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Yeah. And then I love the Lumberjack Show.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Yeah, that's fun. I love the Totem parks. You have
Potlatch and Sacman Village. I kind of like pot the
Potlatch better, I do too, Yeah, yeah, it's just better.
What do you like to do in say Juno?

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:04:50):
The whale watching and Mindenhall Glacier. So yeah, it's it's great.
I just you know, has the best well watching of
any of the ports.

Speaker 2 (01:05:04):
We do.

Speaker 1 (01:05:04):
Do we have a caller on the line, I see
the board flashing. Nope, I guess they hung up. Sorry
we didn't get to your calla anyway, I will be
leading a group to Alaska next year.

Speaker 2 (01:05:21):
I'd love to have you come with me.

Speaker 1 (01:05:23):
It's with Princess Cruises, round trip out of Seattle, Uh,
July twelfth and nineteenth, and we have we're gonna have
our own private shore excursions and on board activities.

Speaker 2 (01:05:36):
Let's go to the phone lines and talk to John. John.
Welcome to the travel show. John. Are you there? Hi?

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
Yes, hy Larry, this is uh, this is John, your
guest in a few minutes.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Oh, that's the next segment. Okay, I thought you were
a caller with a question.

Speaker 2 (01:05:54):
John.

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
We're gonna talk to John Hewlett when we come back
in our final segment. John, just hold on the line. Okay,
very good, Very good. So that's July twelfth to the nineteenth. Now, John,
in looking at prices for twenty twenty six, there seem

(01:06:16):
to be three to four hundred dollars higher in the
advertised price than twenty twenty five.

Speaker 3 (01:06:23):
What's yes, Well, has the price really changed? The price
really hasn't changed. A few of the states, and I
hope Aula.

Speaker 2 (01:06:30):
Them Jimson, starting with California.

Speaker 3 (01:06:32):
Ning in California, have required that advertising cruises they have
to include all of the taxes so they are now
including the taxes in the pricing for twenty twenty six,
where they did not in twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:06:45):
Yeah, last year we'd see like nine hundred dollars, nine
hundred and fifty dollars one thousand dollars for an inside
cabin lead price, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:53):
Plus that two fifty tax to fifty. I've seen three hundred,
three hundred plus. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:59):
But now the California started, which I think is good.
They said add the taxes in. They did that to
the airlines, you have to add in all the taxes
and mandatory fees. I wish they would do that with hotels.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Those resort fees absolutely.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
Add in all the So anyway, folks, you're going to
see a higher price for Alaska this year for twenty
twenty six because the taxes that you'd pay anyway are included.
Now there's really two Alaska itineraries this year. I did
the north South Vancouver to Anchorage, which I love. Next

(01:07:38):
I kind of rotate it, but round trip Seattle is
so easy. You didn't even drive to Seattle. Make a
vacation of it. July twelfth to the nineteenth. Now, last
week I got a text asking me to repeat this.
I talked about everybody wants to ride the cable cars
in San Francisco.

Speaker 2 (01:07:55):
Yes, it's nine dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:07:57):
You know, originally in eight starting an eighteen seventy three
with the first cable car in San Francisco. They eventually
grew to twenty three cable car lines. Now there's two,
one east west on California Street up to Vans and
one north south that goes from Fisherman's Wharf to Market
Street and Union Square. Everybody wants to run, and I said,

(01:08:21):
don't buy a cable car ticket. Here's what you do
because it's nine bucks. So you go Fisherman's Wharf to
Union Square and back eighteen bucks. You can buy what's
called a visitor passport at Kiosk or at sales locations
throughout the city and a one day up until midnight.

Speaker 2 (01:08:42):
It's not twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
It's one calendar day that includes the cable cars, the
street cars, and the municipal buses. Is fifteen bucks for
the day, three days, excuse me, two days thirty five dollars,
a full week forty seven dollars. You want more information
and where you can buy them, go to sf AS
in San Francisco MTA as a municipal Transportation agency sf

(01:09:08):
MTA dot com and you get all the details on that.
You know, riding the cable cars is so much fun.

Speaker 2 (01:09:16):
It is. I've done that. It is a lot.

Speaker 4 (01:09:18):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:09:18):
I like to.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Stand and hold on when we come back. I'm going
to tell you my cure for jet lag and you'll
want it to right here on the Travel Show. You're
listening to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, that get

(01:09:40):
away Guru, joined today by John Potter from the Bountiful
office of Morris Columbus Travel and don't forget about the
Morris Columbus Travel Fall Expo October eighteenth, a Saturday, a
one day event, free admission at the Davis Conference Center
in Leyton, with free travel prizes being given away, information seminars,

(01:10:04):
and fifty or sixty travel vendors, airlines, cruise lines, resorts
and hotels.

Speaker 2 (01:10:08):
You don't want to miss it. Market on your calendar.

Speaker 1 (01:10:11):
October eighteenth, at the Davis Conference Center in Leyton. John,
do you ever suffer from jet lag?

Speaker 4 (01:10:18):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (01:10:18):
Yes, I just came back from two weeks in Europe,
and yes, time much and then I get jet legs Yeah,
as the older you get, the worse against I.

Speaker 1 (01:10:26):
Want to welcome to the show a friend of mine,
John Hewlett, and it's very interesting. A product that he
has was the absolute best thing I ever have done
and continue to do for jet lag, but it wasn't
designed for jet lag.

Speaker 2 (01:10:45):
John, Welcome to the show, Claria.

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
It's a pleasure to be with you. Sorry for the
early intro there.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
That's all right. I thought you were a caller. I
guess you are a caller. John Hewlett and his product
Cardio Miracle. Tell us about the product and its effect
on our health and on jet lag.

Speaker 4 (01:11:06):
Well, Larry, about seventeen years ago, I had a heart
incident and an appendectomy that did go very well, and
that led me to take a close look at the
alternatives to improve my heart help family history of father
uncles all dying early in their early sixties, late fifties,
and so that led me to find the science of

(01:11:30):
nitric oxide, which had been awarded the Nobel Prize in
nineteen ninety eight. But I realized after doing the research
that it actually helped cardiovascular blood flow oxygenation, and there
was emerging science coming out rapidly every year on what
a dramatic impact it had on all aspects of human help.

(01:11:53):
And so I started taking a supplement and it pretty
much supported and reversed my body's ability to not be
a death statistic because I was. I was on a
fast track to not being around any longer. And seventeen
years later, I'm not on any daily prescription medications. And

(01:12:15):
you'll be shocked at this, But about twelve years ago,
I actually started my own company with the research that
I've learned, because I wanted to give people the best
value for their money and not necessarily be tied into
a direct sales or a multi level commission payout. So
that's what I did. I started my own company. And

(01:12:37):
you might be shocked, Larry, because you know that I'm
a few inches short for my weight. I've not been
in the best of shape since high school. Not as
good as Larry Gelwiz has, thank you very much. Actually,
I actually climbed the stairs of Santorini a couple of
years ago, really, which yes, and I wasn't on a

(01:12:58):
donkey I was. I actually walked and traversed those stairs,
which is like going five miles straight uphill it seemed like.
And I was drinking cardio Miracle the entire way, and
though I was sweaty and exhausted at the top, I
had actually no soreness the next day, which was shocking
to me. Again, And that's because nitric oxide increases blood

(01:13:22):
flow and oxygen, and if it's formulated correctly and has
all the different deliverables, it actually helps the lymphatic system.
And by helping the lymphatic system, it removes the soreness.
And so that's the reason with jet lag. It essentially
helps the oxygenation during those flights at that thirty forty

(01:13:44):
fifty thousand foot mark when free radicals are running rampant,
and it essentially fortifying and giving you oxygen and nutrients.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Water right right, got it, John, I got a couple
of questions for you as we're coming to the end
of the show. First of all, for jet lag, should
one take it before the flight, during the flight, or
after the flight, or all of the above. That's question
number one. Question number two very succinctly, what will taking

(01:14:17):
cardio miracle do for us? Now most of our listeners
are fifty plus. And finally, how do we get a
hold You must have a website If you'd answer those
three questions. We got about a couple of minutes.

Speaker 4 (01:14:32):
Well, great, Well, the most important thing is it's obviously
good for everyone. It's good to take it during the flight.
We take it. We advocate people taking the first thing
in the morning every day, but if you're flying, I
would take it before, during, and after, and especially it
assists in the time changes because when you wake up,

(01:14:55):
even though you're going to be a little groggy, you
can take a couple of servings with cardio Miracle and
you'll be alert, and you'll get oxygen. And though there's
no crash because there's no stimulants or caffeine. So that
was the first one. Tell me the second question.

Speaker 1 (01:15:09):
The second question was I found that for jet lag
it was it came as a side benefit, and we
have about thirty seconds left.

Speaker 2 (01:15:18):
It was a side benefit.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
But the primary health benefit of cardio Miracle, in one
or two sentences, is what.

Speaker 4 (01:15:28):
Nourishing the cells of the body, increasing blood flow, reducing inflammation.
And they can go to cardiomiracle dot com, use the
promo code Guru just as a special offer for your
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Speaker 1 (01:15:45):
John Hewlett with cardio miracle. Thanks for joining us here
on the Travel Show, John, and just to remind her
to all of our listeners, we have John Hewlett and
John Potter. Yes, the Utah Travel Expo the Morris Columbus
Travel Expo October eighteenth, Saturday, Free admission with exclusive.

Speaker 2 (01:16:05):
Discounts and free giveaways.

Speaker 1 (01:16:07):
All the details at Utah Travel Expo dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
See you next week.