The Travel Show: Tokyo Disney Land; Best Travel Advice

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Harry Gelwicks that getaway guru. We really have an incredible
program for you today. Among the many travel topics that
we will be discussing is some certificates that will give
you additional savings five percent two hundred dollars on your
next river cruise. And do you have a passport or

(00:20):
is yours a passport card? There's a huge difference. There
is a Burger joint that is catering to Delta Airlines
flights in eleven cities for domestic flights including Salt Lake City.
I'll give you all the update on that one. And
we have the Disney dog himself, John Potter Pluto with

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a in depth Disney update. And what is it about
the South season Polynesia that just pulls us in? Some
new travel scams are out there. You will not believe
what a passenger is suing Jet Blue for. And we're
gonna collectively get of you are absolute best travel advice. Well,

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we really do have a good show, and the travel
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is the tour name for Morris Columbus Travel. I have

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two special guests with me today, John Potter aka Pludo
you remember here from years and years here on the
Travel show. Glad to have him back today, and a
special Disney guest self. No it's not Goofy, although she
should be called Goofy, and she's certainly not Dopey, but

(02:10):
we'll call her the Princess, my daughter Jenny Gelwicks, who
is well traveled and loves Disney. Between John Potter, the
Ultimate Disney File and Jenny, you're going to get some information,
particularly on how to save money, enhance your trip, and
what to do if you're traveling with kids, some real

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insightful suggestions. So Jenny and John, welcome to the Travel Show.

Speaker 2 (02:35):
I think we ought to kick him out and just
talk Disney the whole time. Jenny, come on, let's do
it way better.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
You know, I don't know if people would want you
to only talk Disney for two hours, but they certainly
would support you kicking me out. Yes, okay, okay, very
good on that. You know, John, you're a frontline agent
and river cruises are the hot commoditie, the hot travel

(03:02):
right now. Yeah, I mean they're flying off the shelf,
they really are. What is it about river cruising that
you enjoy and that your clients enjoy?

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I love being right in the destination. You step off
the ship, you are there. You aren't having to drive
in an hour to get to the places you want
to be. You're not tendering in your doted right in town,
and everything is included. Your short excursions are included.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
You know.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
One of the best vacations that we've had as a
family was we gave to our children a couple of
Christmases ago a Rhine River cruise for all of our
five married children and their spouses were invited and it

(03:53):
was I mean, it was so much fun. John. Now,
we had a radio listeners group of travel showed group
with us but our children came with their spouses and
we took kind of a private family trip. First we
went to London for several days and then spent a
couple of days in Amsterdam and then the trip. Now

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we also did as a family a post cruise. We
did the Rhine River from Amsterdam to Basel, Switzerland. I
love that itinerary in the Netherlands, France, Germany and Switzerland.
Then we did said goodbye to everybody and did an
extension as a family in Europe. Now, Jenny, that you

(04:40):
were on that, what is it about river cruising that
you enjoy so much?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well, that was my first river cruise. I would agree
with you. The doorstep, like the just being stepping off
in and out, in and out. When we were in
Amsterdam and we got to the ship and we just
went and stepped on like you would step into your
front door, and they just asked for our passports. And
then I just sat there because I'd only been on cruises,
like traditional cruises, and so when they just asked for

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our passports, and then like thirty seconds later, they're like, okay,
here's your key, and I kind of looked around like.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
That was it.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
It was so simple to get on and off the ship.

Speaker 2 (05:16):
And they drive you in empty and they drive you
right to the door of the ship.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
Bite to the ship.

Speaker 3 (05:20):
I'm so used to the big you know tents where
you wait forever and they check all this stuff. It
is a two mile walk to the ship exactly. That's
the biggest thing that stood out first. Getting on the
ship was just too easy.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Well, John, as you are booking people, and I might add,
it ain't bragging if it's true, right, Morris Columbus Travel
is the largest cellar of cruises in the entire Inner
Mountain Area. In fact, with Viking River Cruises, Morris Columbus
Travel is the largest sellar among travel agencies in the

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entire Western United States. With I'm a Water I don't
know if for the largest, but we've got to be
in the top two or three. Oh yeah with that.
So as people are talking about that, and as the
largest seller, I know that we get I'll call it
deals and pricings and promotions that you can't even get

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directly from the cruise line. Right, So what are you
What are the questions that clients and friends are asking
as they consider booking a river cruise.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
One that I get a lot, and I guess because
they don't do. What they say is now we need
to be in the back, in the middle of the
ship so we don't get seasick. It's like, you're not
going to seasick on the river, Absolutely not. And so
location of the cabin isn't as big of a deal
on a river cruise. And then they also want to

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know about the airfare to get there. And then almost
everybody wants to extend they've flown all the way to Europe.
They want to see more than just what the cruise
is doing.

Speaker 1 (06:57):
And I always recommend at a minimum going in the
day before. Oh yes, if you're taking a flight, that'll
get you there day of. What if the flight's canceled,
what if the flight is delayed, Yeah, all of these things.

Speaker 2 (07:13):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
Some other questions that people often ask is how many
people are on the boat? Now? Typically a river cruise
is about one hundred and fifty hundred and sixty, maybe seventy.
Some of the biggest river cruises like the Amamagda will
hold you upwards of two hundred, but you're dealing with
on average one fifty one sixty. You get to the

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interior of wherever you're going. Now, one of the misconceptions
John is that river cruisers are only in Europe.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
Where else, Oh, Asia, the US they do them on
the lakes here in the Mississippi River and Colombia River. Yeah,
Columbia as well, Egypt, the Philippines, Africa.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Down on the Zambie. Also, I'm a water waste is
open South America.

Speaker 2 (08:03):
That's right, yes, the Columbia.

Speaker 1 (08:04):
So you can cruise just about anywhere. I think things
that you want to notice, how many people are on board?
What is the square footage of your cabin? Now here's
an insider secret. The French balcony is sliding glass doors.
You have a balcony and it extends about six inches.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
Yeah, yeah, I love that.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
But you open up the sliding glass doors, fresh air
and everything.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
And there's a railing there. You're not going to fall
into the road, You're not, and it's you know, right
there as a normal railing would be. Now, a more
expensive cabin also has a balcony that you sit on,
and I really like that. But I also ask myself,
how often am I going to be sitting on a
balcony because you're in town every day? Is it adults

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only like Viking, or family friendly like most of them are,
and other extra for example, am a water race is
one of the few that has bicycles. I remember we
were with a radio listeners group in Vienna and some
of us. Now they have bike tours with a guide,
but you can take the bikes out on you. And
we're in Vienna and just went on our own little

(09:15):
bike tour with that. So yeah, a lot of good
things right there.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Now. Tell us about Morris Columbus has some exclusive discount certificates.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
Yes, these are limited in number, so when they're gone,
they're gone, and there are certain restrictions. But on Viking
you can save up to two hundred dollars as an
additional discount. Now that's not on top on top of
anything any promotion other than group. And then on the
waterways you're going to get a five percent additional discount
again off their lowest price sale price.

Speaker 1 (09:48):
Now you mentioned not the group. What we do at
Morris Columbus Travels, We often charter or part charter, where
the rates are ridiculous, often over a thousand dollars less
per person than buying the same cruise the same date
directly from the cruise line. So you've already got your
huge discount on that, and as you said, any other

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promotion like the free or discounted air other discounts, these
SERTs are on top of that. Well, when we come back,
what Burger joint is catering Delta Airlines. I'd love to
have a cheeseburger on board. We're going to open that
one in eleven cities. Yeah, you can get a first

(10:32):
class burger here on the Travel Show. You're listening to
the Travel Show. I'm Mary Gelwick, Steve to get Away
at Google. The Travel Show is sponsored by Morris Travel

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where you always travel more and pay less. Any of
the more sco office travel experts. You're going to help
you plan the perfect vacation using their experience rather than
googling everything. Is that right, John? That's very very good.
One flight Delta has added out of Salt Lake City

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that I am so excited about. It was just two
days ago Thursday, Thursday, on June the twelfth, NonStop where
John Soul Korea. Soul Korea. Now you'll see it on
the boards as Inchon and that's the name of the airport.
It's just it's really a suburb of Seoul, like the
San Francisco Airport's not in San Francisco, it's down in

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San Mateo County. It's not even in the same county,
but at San Francisco Airport. This is so exciting because
the it gives us options and then you'll do a
Delta Korean Airlines code share just about anywhere you want
to go in Asia with one change of planes out

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of Salt Lake City. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
Goneer the double connection days.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Oh my goodness, that is really exciting. It's my understanding.
The NonStop Soul Incheon flight in the summertime will be daily,
and then in the winter time they're going to see
how it goes three days a week. Part of the
issue is aircraft availability. Now I have it from Delta

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that the advanced bookings on this flight are breaking all
records of how fast for a flight to Seoul because
they have flights out of la and Seattle, in Atlanta
and other places. The Salt Lake Soul flight is breaking
all records. So I hope that we get that.

Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, if we support it, we're going to keep it.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
It'll help me get to Thailand a bunch easier. Yeah, Jenny,
do you like a good cheeseburger. I love cheeseburgers, you
know it, just it's a comfort food, Okay. At the
Salt Lake Airport and many other airports around the US,
there's a burger chain called shake Shack. And when I

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lived in the Midwest as a young man at nineteen,
I was a man of the cloth in Kansas and Missouri, Illinois,
Nebraska and those areas, we had Shakeshack everywhere. And it's
a good burger. And they're right there next to that
pizza joint just as you come through security at Salt

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Lake Airport. Well, shake Shack is now catering burgers, cheese,
and regular for Delta Airlines out of eleven cities. These
are for the premium passengers. They're not going to order
one hundred burgers, okay, but for the premium passengers who
get an advance menu selection. What's considered premium like domestically

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first class.

Speaker 4 (14:03):
So I will never get one of these.

Speaker 1 (14:05):
If you're nice to me, you might.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
It's unlikely, but you might, but you could buy one
and carry it on.

Speaker 1 (14:12):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
I just think that's kind of cool. That is great
for good send. They smell much better than a tuna
fish sandwich.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
Oh do you know they are to shoot people who
bring on like tuna salad or a salad. Are you serious?
You're out of your mind. John. When I was talking
to you earlier this week, you're telling me. You know,
we talked about how popular river cruises are, but you
said Alaska is just going crazy with bookings. It is

(14:45):
now there's still some space available this year. What we
found is that with the tariff dispute and talk ridiculous
talk of Canada being the fifty first state. Yeah, you
know that Canadians have been canceling Alaska cruises.

Speaker 2 (15:06):
Yeah, they don't want to come to the US.

Speaker 1 (15:09):
Air traffic originating in Canada to the US is down
seventy percent. Yeah, which means that discount seats are available
for US to go to Canada. And by the way,
the Canadians don't hate Americans now, they love us. It's
just they have an issue with one man in Washington. Yeah. Okay,
so there is some space. It's getting tight. I have

(15:31):
a group going to Alaska that I'll be hosting August
twenty third, from Vancouver to Anchorage. Love to have you
join me, But John, now is the time for twenty
twenty six, Alaska it is.

Speaker 2 (15:46):
We saw twenty twenty five was record breaking, it was
selling out so quickly. Luckily, with the Canadian situation, we
got more space this year. We don't know that's going
to happen next year. If you wait too long for
twenty twenty six, might be a little sorry.

Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well, I'll be taking a group sailing round trip out
of Seattle with Princess Cruises Juno Ketchikan, Skagway Glacier Viewing, Victoria,
British Columbia, July twelve to twenty six. Now I really
really like that. Excuse me, July twelve to nineteen. I

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really really like that time because the whale watching is exceptional,
absolutely exceptional. You know, there's some Alaska fun facts and Jenny,
let's play stump the dummy.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
All right, I'm glad there's another dummy here. I'll take
the part of it.

Speaker 1 (16:40):
What state in the United States is the northern most state?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
Well, Alaska, Alaska. I feel like this is a trick
question because that would be.

Speaker 1 (16:54):
Of course, it's coming, it's coming. What is the western
most state?

Speaker 4 (17:01):
Alaska?

Speaker 2 (17:02):
Alaska?

Speaker 1 (17:03):
The Allusians go way way out there, all the way
to all the way to Russia. Remember I can just
see Russia over there. All right, here's the big one.
Now we know Alaska is the westernmost, northernmost, but what
state is the easternmost state in the US?

Speaker 4 (17:22):
If you see.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (17:27):
No, Alaska?

Speaker 1 (17:29):
Alaska? They think about that because the International Date Line
cuts through the allusions. This was an unfair Thank you
very much. But I'm your father, and I've been unfair
to you much.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Your Are you a history teacher?

Speaker 3 (17:41):
By the way, No, one, we don't have to do that.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
Well, at it's closest point, as Sarah had told us,
Alaska is approximately fifty miles from Russia. Uh, it's just crazy.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
You know.

Speaker 1 (17:55):
The Aurora borealis, or northern lights, can be on an
average of two hundred and forty three days a year
in Fairbanks. Yeah, a lot of fun time. Hey, when
we come back here on the Travel show, we're going
to do all things Disney. I invited Jenny who is
a Disney file, and John Potter who's Pluto. And you

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don't want to miss this.

Speaker 5 (18:20):
One, shake shack Burgers on Delta River Cruises.

Speaker 1 (18:40):
Yeah, we got it all here. On the Travel Show,
I'm Larry Gelwich to get Away Guru I'm joined today
in studio by Pluto himself. Although you're not wearing your
Pluto hat, John, I'm not Pluto Varian. Very disappointing anyway.
John Potter, who is one of the exceptional travel advisors
at Morris Columbus Travel. If you'd like to talk to

(19:01):
John direct, his direct line is eight oh one four
eight three fifty two fourteen. That's eight oh one four
eight three fifty two fourteen. Any of the travel advisors
you can contact if you don't have their direct line
at eight hundred triple nine forty six forty six. Eight

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hundred triple nine forty six forty six. But again John
is eight oh one four eight three fifty two fourteen. John,
when did you first fall in love with Disney? Because
you are you are just over the moon on Disney.
And I say that as a compliment.

Speaker 2 (19:40):
Would have been nineteen ninety four.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Is that when you were born?

Speaker 3 (19:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (19:43):
I wish, I wish I was that young. Was that
your first trip? Second trip? The first trip I was
seven years old with my grandparents and it was great,
and it was Disney World. Yeah, I mean it's Disneyland.
But you know, Disney is no place for me.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
Delton. Do you know I read an article just today
that it was like thirty percent, one third of people
who attend Disneyland or Disney World are adults attending without children. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Oh, it's so much better, I believe that.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Well, to bring us on an update, what's going on
in all things Disney.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Well, Disneyland, of course is now celebrating the seventieth anniversary
this coming July seventeenth.

Speaker 1 (20:32):
They opened in nineteen fifty five.

Speaker 2 (20:34):
That's the official date, but they're celebrating for the full
year and they're doing some real fun things. The castle's
decorated up, They've got some real new fun shows in
the Great Moments with mister Lincoln. They now have an
animatronic Walt Disney that's they're presenting, and so I'm excited
to go down and see it. So that's underway right now,
and it's actually going to go through next year. But

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it's up and running and now's the time to go.
And of course we've still got that wonderful deal on
Disneyland Park tickets where you can get Disneyland Park ticket
for as low as one hundred dollars per day.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Which is a deal. That's good.

Speaker 2 (21:10):
That's a deal, and it's during the summer months. It's
for use between May sixteenth and August fourteenth, so during
the peak summertime they're discounting it.

Speaker 1 (21:19):
You know, I love Disney Florida and Disney California, but
in the summertime, I'm a Californifaia. Yeah, I remember. It
would have been nineteen ninety one. How old were you,
Jenny in nineteen ninety one, I was nine, Okay. I
took One of the things I did is that I

(21:40):
would take the children on a vacation or a ghetto.
It could be a three or four week, three or
four day weekend a week. I took them. And this
is without Kathy, and Kathy traveled a lot. We travel
as a family, but it was to give her a
break from me and from the kids. You know, she
loves the family, but mother, yeah, mothers will understand you

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need a break. So we, of course all of us
travel as a family, but a couple times a year
we would just disappear. And one of the trip that
we made was in June of nineteen ninety one. I
took four of the five children, our youngest son, Keaton,
who had been born in September of nineteen ninety, was

(22:25):
still what nine ten months old but nine months old,
so he stayed home with mom. I remember standing in line.
I think it was Haunted Mansion in Orlando, and it's
warm in June. It was unusually worn and as I'm
sitting there sweating, I'm thinking I paid thousands of dollars

(22:47):
to have this done to me, and I'm going to California,
which I visited in nineteen fifty eight at age eight,
and it had only been opened three years. I maybe
it cemented in me with that. Well, let's talk Jenny
and John about all things. Do you have anything else

(23:08):
on before we move on there recommendations on where to stay. Jenny,
I know you have a best Western favorite than John
if you would answer the same thing. Recommendations on where
to stay. Let's talk about Disneyland, California, and why.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
John actually introduced us to the Best Western stow Falls.
He's I've gone to I think three different hotels that
he has recommended, and we they've all been great, but
the Best Western Stowfalls is my personal favorite. It is
on the Disneyland drive side, so it's on the side
with all the Disney West west of Disney not on
the harbor side that has all the buses and most

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of the hotels, A lot of traffic, A lot of
traffic and a lot of lines for security and that
kind of thing. So I like to just bypass that,
and it's it's kind of a nice walk, to be honest.
I also with the buses or with the buses and
everything with our stroller, I don't like taking it up
and down.

Speaker 1 (24:05):
Now I've stayed there also at the Best Western Stoveall
it's one of many good hotels. To the first security check,
it's about a ten minute walk is long. It's not
bad at all, John Ware, do you like? I like
the other side. I like the fair filled in by Marriott.

Speaker 2 (24:22):
Uh huh. It's right next to McDonald's. Of course, you've
got a sandwich shop right there. It's just a great location.
Plus you got those soft Marriott beds. And the lines
for security are a little bit longer there, but they've
really got them so they are not as bad as
they used to be.

Speaker 1 (24:37):
One of the things that is, when we would take
our family to Disneyland, we like to see at a
hotel that had an included decent breakfast in the Stoveall
by the way. The best Western stoveall comes to the
Utah Travel Expo in Salt Lake. At the end.

Speaker 4 (24:53):
I overwhelm them every year.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Yes you do, but we would do that, and you know,
to save some money, we'd go to a convenience store
something just buy sandwiches. They allow you to take that in. Yes,
nothing in glass, right, but plastic bottles and stuff is okay.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
And then I think people pull out whole loads of bread. Yeah,
it make sandwiches.

Speaker 2 (25:14):
And a peanut butter. Uh yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
And then we would always eat somewhere for dinner and
the kids. That Mexican restaurant you know, was for Disney
was a decent value. The Blue Bayou and some others
are fun food suggestions. Jenny and John. Let's start with John,
Where do you recommend to eat for adults or with families?

Speaker 2 (25:37):
The one that I like the very best is in
California Adventure part called Flows Diner.

Speaker 1 (25:43):
What do they serve? Is it like a diner? Burgers, dog, sandwiches, soup, salad, yes,
fried chicken. My favorite is the fried chicken. It's very good.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
They've got all kinds of different things, but the burgers
are great salads and they have a very good breakfast
as well.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
Jenny, I always do the same thing, so we always
do the Blue Bayou if I can't get reservations there.
I like Kafee Orleans. I like the quick service at
Jolly Holiday. But one thing that I will say is
that you you can do your quick service on your app.

Speaker 2 (26:14):
Ahead of time get a reservation because they do.

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Run out of some of their desserts before the day's end,
So if you get it for like three hours ahead,
you still will get it.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Especially the gingerbread cookies at Christmas time. Yeah, you have
to get them a heaven forbid.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
We should miss a dessert with that. Now. Is California Adventure,
Jenny good for smaller kids?

Speaker 3 (26:36):
I mean, like three, you had one day and had
to choose a park, I would say go to Disneyland.
You can do stuff there, but there's not as much
for very small kids to do.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
You've traveled there with young children, John, you have seen
young children travel family. What you talk to me about
iding the kids an idea on them?

Speaker 3 (27:03):
Yeah, so obviously, like you know, keeping kids safe and
knowing where they are is really important in a place
that has so many people. So some things that we
do is I dress my kids alike. That way, if
we do lose one, I can say they're wearing this
exact outfit. I also put Apple air tags on them,
but I put it on their ankles so that it's
not obvious. And I also write my name and my

(27:25):
phone number sharpie on their on their arms, not their names,
but my name.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
And then do you talk about central logo?

Speaker 1 (27:32):
What about a bracelet?

Speaker 4 (27:34):
I do it on their ankles just so that it's
less obvious.

Speaker 2 (27:37):
Now, Disney has never had a missing child ever. They've
had a lot of missing parents, but they've never had
a missing really really wow, Yeah, they have a lot
of missing parents, John, What are the stroller rules they have? Rules?
They have to fit a certain size.

Speaker 1 (27:55):
I hate it when I go to the clothing store.

Speaker 2 (27:56):
Yeah, nothing greater than thirty one inches or or seventy
nine centimeters and a width of fifty two inches.

Speaker 1 (28:03):
What's I mean?

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Blight bob double stroller is pretty much its maximum and
that's what we have.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
And they do not allow wagon or stroller wagons.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Wow, that's good to know, Jenny. What about taking kids
under three?

Speaker 4 (28:22):
That's magical?

Speaker 3 (28:23):
And they can eat for free at like the breakfast places,
so they eat my food.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
Don't they get in free?

Speaker 3 (28:28):
It can get in free any of the if you
do any of the shows, like by tickets for shows
or any of the reservations, they eat for free. Like
if you go to any of the breakfast places, they
are free.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
You want to tell the audience what I did with
each of our five children days before the second birthday.

Speaker 4 (28:47):
I think, well, and I did this too because of
your tradition.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
He before our second birthday, he took each one of
us individually to Disneyland so we could fly for free,
and then we could get into Disneyland for free.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
And he took us one on one.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
And I did tradition with my two boys, and it's
really special. I actually prefer to take my kids one
on one rather than that sounds bad, but both of
them at the same time. That's still fun. But it's
an amazing bonding experience with one child.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Just don't forget the diaper bag.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
No, don't do that, I will say. Though they have
amenities there, it's really nice. I've gone there when I've
been nursing. They have like they yes, and they have
places to to put your baby to bed or to
rock your baby, to feed your baby. They have vending
machines that have diapers, that have wipes. It's amazing. They

(29:35):
have formula, they have everything.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Now, John, this sounds weird, but I want you to
explain it. Child swap.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
Yes, they've actually changed that sounds awful. It sounds awful.
They knew that they've actually changed the name. It's now
called rider switch. And what it is is if you've
got a child that is either too young or too
short to ride the ride with everybody else, you go
up to the start of the line. They will give
you a pass so one parent can stay with the
child that cannot go. Everybody else goes and writes the ride,

(30:06):
and then the person that didn't ride the ride can
take one person and walk in the exit, not wait
in line and ride the ride themselves.

Speaker 1 (30:13):
Fantastic. Hey, they have character breakfasts and we just have
about one minute. Tell us about character breakfasts.

Speaker 3 (30:21):
They have Goofy's Kitchen and Disneyland Hotel. They have Mini
that's actually in the park, and then they have storytellers
at the Grand Californian. And that is my favorite and
it is fans why because it is the nicest food.

Speaker 1 (30:33):
It's an up and that's a Grand California hotel.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Like fifty five dollars an adult and thirty three for
a kid.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
But that's also the experience.

Speaker 4 (30:40):
It's worth it to me, to be perfectly honest.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Yeah, I like the Plaza Cafe where the minis is
in Disneyland.

Speaker 4 (30:46):
CLAUSEA is fun too because it's in the park.

Speaker 3 (30:48):
John.

Speaker 1 (30:48):
When we come back in our next segment, I want
to round out the Disney discussion and talk about passes.
We used to have that Max pass and they've changed everything,
So when we come back, let's be talking about that.
We also are going to be talking about John's Send
River cruise, a beautiful on a Waterways cruise. It's more

(31:12):
discussion of Rover cruises right here on the travel show.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
I would say, I immity, that's all folks.

Speaker 1 (31:30):
But that's not Disney. No, it is not shameful, shameful.
I'm Marry Gelwick's to get Away Guru and we had
I think the most fantastic discussion on Disney. There's two
more topics that I want to round out our Disney discussion. First,
Jenny talk to us about families with children and the

(31:52):
importance of strollers, even for kids who may be eight
nine years old and then John talk to us about
get options.

Speaker 3 (32:01):
M hm, okay, Well, strollers are super annoying at Disneyland,
but they are really really nice. We always bring our
double stroller and my oldest is nine, and we went
in December, and he prefers it because he gets tired legs.
You're walking so much. That he's nine years old, nine
years old, he still fits in it and he prefers
it so he can have a ride to and from

(32:22):
the hotel because and it's nice because they fall asleep
on the way to the hotel.

Speaker 4 (32:25):
So I like that over renting a stroller.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
The other thing is, since I've experienced taking a stroller,
I don't know that I ever will go without one,
even if I don't have little kids with me. I
have a coworker who goes to Disney World and rent
strollers for her teenagers to carry your stuff.

Speaker 4 (32:40):
It is incredible.

Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:42):
And the thing that we don't take it to all
the lands, We're not constantly moving it. We will go
to a land and park it and we always buy
we have the boys pick out a balloon and we
tie it to our strollers so it's easily spot identifiable.
And then when our trip is over, we have the
boys go find somebody and they give their balloon to
a kid that's staying.

Speaker 4 (33:02):
But it is strollers hold all your stuff.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
I've only had something stolen one time, but they hold everything,
They hold your children, they hold your food, they hold
your purchases, and it is so convenient and we just
leave in one spot and come back hours later.

Speaker 1 (33:15):
Here you talked about carrying your stuff and teenagers even
getting the stroller. What I always told you kids, uh,
and we'd be there for several days, is let's unless
there's a run on shortage, let's buy this stuff as
we're exiting the park so that we don't have to
carry it.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Even stuff like popcorn buckets, you have to carry that
stuff around or to.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Get where it is a hat or where there you go.
There you go, John, talk to me about ticket options
in Disneyland.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Yeah, they have, and both parts have them. But they
have they call it the lightning lane passes, and there's
three different types of passes. One is called the single
lane pass and that's good for any ride that offers
lightning lane. So any of there you can only do
what is lighting lane. Lightning lane is like a reservation
to get into ride a ride now, isn't it?

Speaker 1 (34:07):
It's not necessarily at twelve forty eight, isn't like a
one one hour window and.

Speaker 2 (34:12):
A separate line five minutes early. Yeah, you can go
futes early. So the prices are for these passes, of course,
it's indational cost and it's based on how busy the
park is.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
It's not a set dynamic pricing.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
The single lane cast you can only purchase once you
enter the park, not in advance. For the single at
the now is that at the ticket booth when you go,
you go through the appro the app, and you can't
do it until you've scanned into the park when you're
standing in line to get in.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
It's really stuff, and.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
It works on the two rides that do not cover
multi lane but Radiator Springs Racers and Star Wars Rise
of the Resistance. It covers everything.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
They're there primo rides that have the longest price.

Speaker 2 (34:58):
Then they hate just to go on those right. And
again you only have two per day. A multi lane pass.
You can get three passes, and you can always have three,
but you can have more than three, but when you
use one, you can get another one to have three
and so you kind of look and see what's the
when you do another one can then still get another.

(35:20):
You can go all day, you go all day on that.
It does not it's called Multi Lane Pass multi It
does not work on Radiator Springs, Racers or Rise of
the Resistance, but all the other rides that offer the
multi lane gets it. And then all of these passes
you also get the Disney PhotoPass. Now, the Multi Lane
Pass you can purchase up to seven days in advance

(35:46):
if you're standard to Disney Hotel three days. If you're
not stand at Disney Hotel.

Speaker 4 (35:51):
It's expensive.

Speaker 2 (35:52):
Then there's then there's the best of the best. But
this one is primo expensive. It's like four hundred bucks.
The light Premiere Pass. It gets you on every single
ride in the park that has Lightning Lane whenever you
want to go. You walk right in.

Speaker 1 (36:09):
All right, listen, straight up. I think I know the
answer from the two of you. There's no way of
getting around Disney is expensive.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
It's expensive.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
Very is it still worth it? Multi lane? Yes?

Speaker 2 (36:22):
The other two no?

Speaker 1 (36:24):
No with that. Now, what's your favorite ride? John? In Disneyland.

Speaker 2 (36:28):
Disneyland would be Star Space Mountains, Space Mountain, Jenny, your
favorite ride, it was Splash Mountain.

Speaker 4 (36:35):
Now Tiana's by your Adventure.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
I love the Splash Mountain. I love it. I still
love Pirates of the Caribbean.

Speaker 2 (36:41):
Still do that.

Speaker 1 (36:41):
Oh my gosh, it's not a bad one there. Hey,
we got just a little bit left and we were
talking about river cruises earlier. John, give us the highlights.
You will be personally hosting a send River Normandy and
Paris round trip next year in August. Give us the highlights.

Speaker 2 (36:59):
Yes, it is going to be September or no August
twenty sixth, and we're going to go into Paris. You
can go two days early if you would like too.
And I make just go see Notre Dame and the
rebuilt yes, since it's been rebuilt as there before. And
then we're gonna sail down the Sinn River going to

(37:22):
lahav which is where we'll go to Normandy. More, we'll
go down to Normandy and I just love Normandy. That
is so wonderful. Then back to Paris. And then at
the end of the cruise, everybody wants to join me
can join me, and we're going to go to Disneyland Paris.

Speaker 1 (37:38):
You know, one of my favorite stops on that cruise
is row In. It's a medieval city. You think you're
back five six hundred years ago, but it's where Joan
of Arc was tried and you can follow all of that.

Speaker 7 (37:51):
Yeah, that'll be August twenty sixth, John Manner More when
we come back here in our number two of the
Travel Show. Welcome to our number two of the Travel Show.
In the best two hours in radio.

Speaker 1 (38:09):
I'm Larry Gelwicks, then get Away Guru, joined today in
studio by Pluto himself, John Potter, one of the travel
experts at Morris Columbus Travel and the Queen of Travel herself,
Jenny Gelwicks, my beautiful daughter who's traveled the world with
me and our family. And may I just say that

(38:30):
discussion we had of Disney, well, I just thought was
as good as it gets, explaining all the ins and
outs and suggestions of Disney.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
I think we should do it again, but do it
on location.

Speaker 1 (38:42):
I am all for that now. Earlier in the show
we talked about river cruising, and Jenny I mentioned in
the last hour that your mom and I gave all
of our five children and the spouses invited all of
them to join us on the Rhyan and we went
to London first and Amsterdam and then did some post

(39:03):
cruise travel as a family in Europe. But this was
your very first, very first river cruise. You've been on
a lot of ocean cruises. What did it meet your expectations?
Did it exceed your expectations? Did it fall below your expectations?

Speaker 4 (39:23):
More than exceeded it?

Speaker 3 (39:25):
And I don't even know what I expected, but because
you had told us everything, but it was not anything
that I envisioned, but very positive.

Speaker 1 (39:33):
For example.

Speaker 3 (39:34):
For example, I think one of the biggest things I
loved is that when it's paid for it everything's paid
up front. And so often on a big cruise ship,
they're like, do you want to buy this?

Speaker 4 (39:42):
Do you want to buy this? Do you want to
buy this?

Speaker 3 (39:44):
You have to you to death, so your WiFi is there,
you get drinks for your meals, and then during a
happy hour, so if you want diet coke, you get
all the diet coke or whatever drinks you want.

Speaker 1 (39:54):
Excuse me, stop, did you say all the diet coke?

Speaker 3 (39:57):
I mean, as much as Europe has in that way,
thank you very much.

Speaker 4 (40:00):
They will consume it with ours.

Speaker 3 (40:03):
It just feels mentally more luxurious to not be constantly
asked for extras. And I think the excursions were my
favorite thing because they give you a list that you
choose from and then a level of activity. Yeah, you
want a bike with a fast group, you can go
with them. If you just want to be dropped off
in the middle of a town, like in Rickweer, which

(40:23):
was my favorite thing in the entire world, then.

Speaker 4 (40:26):
You can do that.

Speaker 3 (40:27):
Like you just have a choice of how you feel,
and so that way you don't feel like you're holding
a group back or you don't feel like you are frustrated.

Speaker 4 (40:34):
At the pace of another group. And I really loved right.

Speaker 1 (40:37):
Rickqueer John is in the Alsace region of France, and
it was used by Disney as the inspiration for Bell's
village in Beauty and the Beast. And it looks like that,
doesn't it.

Speaker 3 (40:51):
We made a TikTok of the opening sequence where Bell
sings in that town because if.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
I go back, I'm doing that because I did a
different excursion in that port. But Rick beers love to
do that.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
Now, John, Kathy and I had a memorable experience. Now
we all sat together at one of the large tables
for lunch and dinner, all right, And it was so
much fun having our kids there, adult children, and I think,
you know when some of the river cruises you can
take a small child ages four or five. Viking is

(41:25):
eighteen years of age and older, but Ama is four
years of age, but it's not recommended. I love being
with my kids who are four and five, or grandkids
who are four and five. But Jenny, that's a tough
one on a river cruise.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
Yeah, we've actually we want to go on another one,
and we've talked about taking because our boys will be
like nine and eleven at that point. But there's still
not a lot for them to do on the ship,
as opposed to a traditional cruise ship where there's so
many activities.

Speaker 4 (41:55):
There's kids clubs, there's swimming, there's shows. It doesn't have that.
It's a totally different vibe.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
Well, you know your grandsons, Brooks and Milo, Oh, my grandsons,
you're not that old hello some days. No, my grandsons,
your sons Milo and Brooks were on the show several
weeks ago. They went on with princess cruises with their father.
Because you're a school teacher and you couldn't get away

(42:22):
for the whole cruise. It was like a twelve day
cruise and they loved it. See at the kids club, John,
they had the swimming pool and the water park and
the water.

Speaker 3 (42:36):
Endless food they don't have they don't have the open
buffets on these right, right.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
So there was one memorable moment, John, Well, there's many,
but the a fun one was at dinner the first night.
We had all of our family there and none of
them had ever been on a river cruise and they
were going off after one day of how wonderful this was.
The food was over the top, everything about it. And

(43:04):
Jenny looked at Kathy and I and said, Mom, Dad,
you've been holding out on us. I get it. Now
Here is a both of you would lose your mind
on a cruise, that river cruise that I thoroughly enjoy.

(43:26):
It's the Christmas markets of Europe. It's a six hundred
year tradition and it's not department store stuff, but it's
a celebration. And you know what's interesting in Europe I
see at Christmas times, I see more depictions of Jesus
Christ and the Nativity than I do in department stores.
Are in towns around the United states, Jesus is the

(43:50):
centerpiece of Christmas in Europe. And these Christmas markets are outdoors,
and there wouldn't chios be decked in for greens. And
it's music, it's food, it's entertainment. I'm not a shopper,
I've said that on the show. I don't even like
to shop for socks.

Speaker 4 (44:07):
I am a travel shopper.

Speaker 1 (44:09):
You are out of control shopper memory. And so the
very first time Kathy and I went, and I've been
to the Christmas markets I think five times, and three
of them on a river cruise, two on land, and
I had to go buy a suitcase. I was buying
so much stuff, nothing for me. It was all for
the grandkids, all for my children and their children, and

(44:34):
I benefit. That's right. I lost my mind right there.
It is so much fun, and there's food and drink
and dancing and entertainments, all outdoors, and it's never one.
For example, in Vienna they have twelve Christmas markets. We
go to the big one. So on the Christmas market cruise,
which Kathy and I will be hosting Jenny, unless you

(44:54):
can talk your mother out of it, is next year
twenty twenty six December third to the tenth. Now we're
going to go from Basel, Switzerland north to Amsterdam, so
it'll be Switzerland, Germany, France and the Netherlands. And one
of my absolute favorites Christmas markets has to be in Strasburg.

Speaker 2 (45:18):
When I was in Strasburg, they was just getting it
set up as there the first week in November and
they had the tree up and it's like, oh, I've
got to come back here when it's all done well.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
The epicenter is right thereby Notre Dame, Yes Strasburg. Yeah,
that was Notredame Paris, Notre Dame Strasburg. Yes, but there's
other Christmas marks over in La Patit, France, which is
part of the city. It's like everything is like it
was five hundred years ago. Now. On these Christmas market

(45:47):
cruises you get all of this sight seeing that you
get any time of the year, but they add the
Christmas markets. I have found the weather to be very
comparable to Salt Lake City. You know, mother nature can
do what you want. But the times, the last couple
of times daytimes, we're in the mid forties. As I said,

(46:10):
mother nature can do whatever she wants. Now the dates
are December third to the tenth of next year.

Speaker 3 (46:17):
I haven't checked my calendar, but I really feel like
it's open.

Speaker 1 (46:22):
Are you going to be able to phone in every
day for a week six day at this school?

Speaker 2 (46:27):
Fine?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
So, John, you know what we did. We bought half
the ship. We chartered half the ship. Those are our cabins,
and the discount off what you would pay at any
other travel company or directly from Almah Waterways varies from
about three or four hundred dollars per cabin to over
one thousand dollars per person per cabin. It's the same cruise,

(46:50):
same date, and yeah, it it really really works.

Speaker 2 (46:54):
And the river cruises are awesome and Almah is the best.

Speaker 1 (46:58):
It really really is. You know what one of the
things I wanted to Well, you can get all the
details at Morriscolumbus dot com. Click down to Morris Murdoch
Escorted Tours and click on cruises, or give John or
any of the travel experts at Morris Columbus Travel a
call now. One thing is the importance of booking now,

(47:19):
and it's a very small deposit, is that you get
to pick your cabin and on what deck. I think
the ship holds about one hundred and fifty people, and
I'll tell you nobody decorates like Alma Waterways, no on board,
nobody even comes close to that. Love to have you

(47:40):
join me on the Christmas Markets of the Rhine December
third to the tenth, twenty sixth, Join Jenny.

Speaker 4 (47:48):
Larry and Jenny will lead the way.

Speaker 1 (47:49):
And would you be making a side trip to Paris Disneyland.

Speaker 4 (47:53):
Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (47:55):
Now to jump back, I just want to tell you
that I have a way of absolutely causing John and
Jenny to lose their mind. I was not say sanity,
but they lost that years ago, but to lose your
mind because I have talked to both of them about
the possibility. There's nothing else, you know where I'm going

(48:16):
with this. There's nothing out there yet, so we don't
have it. But I said, what about like in the
springtime a Asia Disneyland, we would go to Disneyland Hong Kong,
Disneyland Shanghai, China, and Disneyland Tokyo, where you've been to
a couple of times.

Speaker 4 (48:37):
Weeks ago. I called you from.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Hey.

Speaker 1 (48:41):
When we come back, I want to take you to
Polynesia and share with you some of the strangest travel requests,
just how to manage to have care Battle show and
welcome to the Travel Show. I'm Gelwicks. That get away
boom room. Joanna is the native greeting like buennesteas Hello

(49:05):
Helloha in Tahiti at French Polynesia. I'm joined today by
Jenny Gelwicks and John Potter are Disney experts, and of
course John is one of our fine travel experts and
travel advisors in the Bountiful office. If you want to
talk to John direct one eight oh one four eight

(49:25):
three fifty two fourteen. That's eight oh one four eight
three fifty two fourteen. I do want to remind you
to join us on social media on Facebook and Instagram
so you can follow Morris Columbus Travel and Morris murdoch
Escorted tours to keep up to date on all things.

(49:45):
And if you have a topic that you'd like us
to discuss here on the Travel Show, you can go
to our social media and send us a message or
give John a call and say kick Larry in the
backside and have him talk about this. You would love to.

Speaker 2 (49:59):
Would be happy to do that.

Speaker 1 (50:01):
My suggestion to do that, even without a suggestion, you
like to do that, well, very very good, Jenny and John.
What is the draw, the allure, that desire that people
have and love for Polynesia, Jenny.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
For me personally, it's the relaxation beyond the people, which
I think are the most incredible people. I think because
my life is so being a working mom and all
just in a school and everything like that, the desire
to just relax on a beach and I do sight
seeing stuff and I go go go at Disneyland, but
this is like, leave me alone. I just want to

(50:41):
lay here. I'll go on excursions, but just having like
there's no reason to do anything but just take it
all in and just lay there. It's my favorite thing
in the whole world.

Speaker 1 (50:49):
Now, you've been to Hawaii a number of times. A
few years ago, I invited you and your husband Brandon
to come with me to and Morea and we spent
most of our time on the island of Morea. How
was that experience different than Hawaii?

Speaker 3 (51:10):
It it was the relaxation there.

Speaker 4 (51:13):
I had never been there.

Speaker 3 (51:14):
I didn't even know what to expect, and it when
people ask me my favorite vacation, it's if I'm looking
for something that's not sight seeing, like there's different categories
like you do, that is my favorite place. In the
whole world and right after Disney, I.

Speaker 2 (51:28):
Mean will Yeah, but just the.

Speaker 3 (51:33):
Scenery, the really unique excursions and things to do. We
jet skid around the island, which was I had never
done any jet skiing, I think on a trip and
it was incredible, and swimming with the sharks and everything
was so unique.

Speaker 4 (51:46):
But it just had a real just relaxation paradise.

Speaker 1 (51:50):
It's a different feel than Hawaii, and I love Hawaii,
but it is a very it's a less commercialized feel
with that.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Less like busy. Even Hawaii feels busy a little bit.

Speaker 3 (52:01):
And I love Hawaii and those bungalows that you stay
in are just overwhelmed.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
Bongo, John. What is it about the South Seas?

Speaker 2 (52:10):
The beauty. I have never been anywhere more beautiful than
French Polynesia. The beautiful mountains like morea.

Speaker 1 (52:17):
It's the jungle everywhere. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Bali High Mountain is on the island of Warrea. Yes,
and it's just the beauty. You can go snorkeling without
getting in the water because the water is so crystal clear.

Speaker 1 (52:29):
You can see the fish blood. Cularity is incredible. Now, Jenny,
you mentioned swim with the sharks. We have an excursion
that is, I don't I'm trying to decide how to
describe it. It's called swim with the sharks and rays
and a private island. Now we do this off a

(52:49):
cruise ship. In fact, I'll be taking a group on
a two week cruise from Tahiti to Honolulu next year
May fifteenth to the twenty seventh. We're starting to heat.
We sail French Polynesia. We sail and visit the friendly
islands Tahitiaa Borbora, Moorea. We cruise up through the Tuomotu

(53:13):
Archipelago of islands, crossing the equator, then visit the Hawaiian Islands.

Speaker 2 (53:18):
Which is also available for this, thank.

Speaker 1 (53:20):
You very very much. But when we're in Morea properly
pronounced Morea, we have this excursion that the ship does
not do, and it's called swim with the sharks and rays,
and people like I'm gonna swim with sharks will first.

Speaker 4 (53:33):
Get kind of freaked me out to when you first
told me about it.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
We've never had an incident because we're we're in the lagoon,
so it's gentle water. We're on a sandbar, the water
is about waist deepe. No, the sharks they're reefs and
gray tips. They are more afraid of you than you
of them. The only time you'd have an incident, decided

(53:56):
you wanted to put your hand in its mouth with
a piece of meat. Now that's you know, there's no
law against stupid, but there are consequences of stupid. No,
to me, it's we've had grandmothers do this. I remember
on one of them and there's stingrays there to your hole.
The favorite you can feed them. There's guides in the water.

(54:18):
It is John. It's like nothing that you could possibly imagine.
And I've had people and if you don't want to
get out of the boat, you don't have to because
we have most of the day. We're on like Gilligan's Island,
on a private island with a barbecue and entertainment. It
is a nobody lives on this island.

Speaker 2 (54:37):
Yeah, it's great, but.

Speaker 1 (54:39):
I remember the last time I was there, this delightful
grandmother in her eighties was those sharks and finally she
went in with Kathy. To this day she raves that
was the greatest experience of all because the water is
only depending on your height waist or chase deep. You're
on a sandbar one.

Speaker 4 (54:58):
It's such a unique experience, it really is.

Speaker 1 (55:00):
But remember it's all of it. It's French Polynesia, the
Society Islands, the French Polynesia Islands, Tahiti, Morea and John.
We have a special promotion that Morris Columbus is teamed
up with Norwegian Cruise Line. Give us the details.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
Yes, Norwegian Cruise Line has the second person flies free.
So on this particular cruise, two people fly Salt Lake
to Papiete and then Donald then Honolulu Salt Lake two
people seventeen forty nine. That's eight hundred and forty nine
dollars a person. That is an amazing airface.

Speaker 1 (55:40):
I priced this out is about two thousand dollars a
y es. Yes, and there's also a more at C
Columba or Morris Columbus NCL promotion very quickly.

Speaker 2 (55:51):
Yeah, you can get the beverage package, which is unlimited drinks,
upgraded dining, a certain number of upgrading restaurants.

Speaker 1 (55:58):
Those are the specialty She'll keep, Donny, what about go ahead?

Speaker 2 (56:02):
Sorry, fifty dollars short excursion credit, free WiFi and on
select sailings, not this one, but select sailings, kids sail
free and the kids are ages six months to one
hundred years.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
And they don't have to be family.

Speaker 2 (56:14):
No.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
With that, you reported that this is one of your
booking about two people and that average. When we come back,
I'm going to teach you how to talk at Aussie.
There on the Travel show. Welcome back to the Travel Shot.

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You'll Radna and Aloha, Tahiti Hawaii Cruise. I'm Larry Gelwick's
the Getaway Huru. Do check out the website for Morris
Columbus Travel. That's Morris Columbus dot com, Morris Columbus dot com.
And for any of our escorted tours, it's the third
item down on the homepage, Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours. Click

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on that, and if it's a cruise, click on the
toolbar that says cruises. If it's a land tour, you'll
see geographic locations Europe, Asia, Africa or whatever. Simply click
on that and then find the year twenty twenty five
twenty twenty six. John, I don't think we have any
of the twenty twenty seven tours that year not out

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yet right, but they'll be out very very shortly. We
were talking about this Tahiti to Hawaii it's a two
week cruise. John, you told me that you're booking about
two cabins a day.

Speaker 2 (57:37):
Yeah, about two cabins a day on average. And what's
funny is three years ago you and I both went
on this cruise, right group, Right, I've been seenning up.
A lot of people was on that cruise with us,
So second timers on this one. So if they're going
back again, that shows you the beauty and the value
of this cruise.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
Well, it's like you go to Hawaii, does that Meanwhile,
I've been there. I don't want to go back exactly.
The beauty overloads the sensors. You'll take your photographs and
even to the HD High def photographs and people will
say back home, oh that is so beautiful, and you're saying, no,
the picture doesn't capture the depth of color, the hues

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of the blues and the greens.

Speaker 2 (58:18):
Yeah, look over the water and there's three different shades
of blue. You take a picture, it's one color. Well,
that free airfare promotion is a great one. Now, one
thing about cruises is that prices like this Tahiti to
Hawaii are not static. They don't remain the same.

Speaker 1 (58:35):
Right, But as of the other day, and all prices
are subject to change and availability at the time of
booking for a two week cruise. Run through the prices. Now,
this includes all taxes and fees, the airfare you're getting
the free airfare promotion on top of that.

Speaker 2 (58:53):
Nineteen seventeen Elleen per person was the inside cabin.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
But but wait, there's more.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
You can get an ocean view cabin for twenty eighty
nine per person.

Speaker 1 (59:05):
So it's one hundred and sixteen dollars for are an
inside cabin nineteen seventy per person. Remember that's two weeks,
including all tax and fees. But why not get an
ocean view with a picture window or porthole just twenty
eighty six and ano one hundred and sixteen dollars. Now,
I will say that the balcony cabins are preferred. They're

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a better location, they're larger, and the entire outside wall
are floor to ceiling sliding glass doors. Right now, it's
about four grand yeah per person. Yeah, that's a lot
of money, but it's two weeks, and if you divide
that in half, that's about what you pay for a
balcony cabin one week in Alaska. And we do that

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without even thinking yeah, yeah, but this is Tahiti to Hawaii. Now,
one thing you can do is you don't have to
stay in Hawaii and go from the ship to the airport.
On the ncl Air promotion that they've cooked up with
Morris Columbus Travel, you can extend your stay in Hawaii
up to another couple of days.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Two days.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
Yeah, I wish they would do it more, but it's
two days. And my thought is you're there, why not
extend Now, if you do your own airfare, you can
do whatever you want again, that is next year May
fifteenth to the twenty seventh, twenty twenty six, and you'll
take you with the Sharks, the Rays and the private Island.

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Now one of my favorite countries. And Jenny, you've been
there's Australia. Yes, you know, they speak a form of English,
but I find them to be so friendly, you know,
and if they see you with a tourist map, people
will stop and say can I help you?

Speaker 3 (01:00:55):
Yeah, Well, on that Japan crews that you guys just
went on, my kids became very good friends with an
Usustralian family.

Speaker 1 (01:01:01):
That's right, and they're pen pals. Now with that, well,
I'm going to teach you how to talk like an Aussie.
Here are some words and if you know the meaning,
which I don't necessarily know that you do. If you
did a nice favor for me and I just said tah,
what does that mean? Thank you? Thank you very very good. Now,

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on holidays we love to go to the deck at
our house and have a barbie, barbecue barbecue, throwing the
shrimp on the barbie. First meal of the morning is
a breakye, I like that. A breaky is breakfast for that. Now,

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if you're really surprised, it's you say cookie. That's an
exclavation of surprise. Now, is it Ky.

Speaker 4 (01:01:55):
With the crocodile Hunter?

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Yeah, that's right, crank you there. Now we have in
our family some ankle biters small children. As an ankle biter,
now I would say this show has been fair dinkom.
That means it's honest, true and genuine. But sometimes I
want to tell both of me that do the hairry.

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That means disappear h A R R Y, not h
A I R.

Speaker 2 (01:02:26):
You go get a haircut.

Speaker 1 (01:02:27):
That's right, that's very very good anyway, that's do the hairy.
Australia has an appeal. It's a long flight. But you
know the discomfort of a long flight unless you're sitting
in the row two and not row fifty two where
I usually sit, quickly disappears. You fairly forget it. And

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so next year, John, this is one of our top
sellers is a Sydney to Auckland cruise. We're with Holland America.
Tell us about Holland.

Speaker 2 (01:03:01):
Oh, they're a great cruise line. They have some very
good food. Their ships are not large, they're big twenty five. Yeah,
they're not the big megaships. Yeah, very good ship cruise line.

Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
Now we're going in the winter time. Is there any
smarts that February fifteen to March first, Yes, down there
is summer summertime and it is absolutely warm and delightful.
February fifteen to March first. Now we're gonna we are
offering a pre cruise three days in Sydney and we
include the Sydney Tour, the Blue Mountains, all of that,

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and then post cruise a couple of days in Auckland,
New Zealand. Did any of you see the movie The Hobbit,
Of course you remember the shire and all the Hobbit holls.
We are going to hobbiton the movie set is there.
You can go inside the Hobbit holes, the what's it

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the Green Dragon in Green Dragon Pub?

Speaker 2 (01:03:58):
Yeah, I think that pub, the pub tavern, that's.

Speaker 1 (01:04:01):
It, Green Green Dragon. It's there. You do have a drink,
but that and of course we have an Auckland City
tour there with New Zealand, so lots of fun things
planned for it. We'll visit. Uh, but Sydney and Melbourne
down to the island is Melbourne? Melbourne? Did I you
said Melbourne? It's I'm tired. It's Melbourne so embarrassing then

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both the North and South Islands? John, how do we
How do people get a hold of you and others
to book this?

Speaker 2 (01:04:30):
You reach me at eight to one four eight three
five two one four or go to morriscolumbus dot com.
Scroll down where it says Morris Murdock Escorted Tours, click
on cruises and it's right here and your.

Speaker 1 (01:04:42):
Number is eight oh one four eight three fifty two fourteen. Jenny,
I know you love ice cream. I do too, John,
you and ice cream? What's your favorite flavor?

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Banana? Almond?

Speaker 1 (01:04:56):
Really, I've never heard of such old You do love
cookie dough? My favorite brand is Hogging Does, and I
just love their chocolate. You do, I do as I'm
a purist. Well, a Jet Blue passenger is suing the airline,
claiming she suffered severe injuries from a quote dangerously cold

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ice cream sandwich on a flight from JFK to Paris.
Carla Quino's of New Jersey alleges in the lawsuit that
the frozen treat was so hard she fractured one of
her teeth. Now, just to time out, what in the
h E double L Are you chewing on a brick?

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If it's that hard, I.

Speaker 3 (01:05:46):
Feel like you bite in and then you're like, ooh,
too hard and then you stop.

Speaker 1 (01:05:49):
Well. As part of the in flight meal service on
Jet Blue flight nineteen oh seven, she received a chomp
size is that like a bite? Or two? A chomp
size strawberry shortcat ice cream sandwich, and according to the complaint,
Carla Quino's bit into the frozen dessert only to crack

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her upper left lateral incisor leading And I don't want
to make fun of the pain, but she was in
severe pain and eventually a root fracture. Now, upon landing
in Paris, she got emergency dental care well. Quinnot's contends
that Jet Blues decision to serve the frozen dessert without
telling her it's cold.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
I mean that seems reasonable constitute negligence.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
The lawsuit of legs, jet Blue breached its duty of
care by not warning her of the risk associated with
consuming a cold treat. Okay, Well, if she wins, damages
would be capped by the Montreal Convention at one hundred

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and seventy two thousand dollars. That doesn't mean she's on
hasn't gone to trial yet.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
I'm wondering how she would have been if the ice
cream wouldn't have been cooled. That might have been a
whole nother story of complaining.

Speaker 1 (01:07:07):
Yeah, it was so soft it dripped on my blouse.

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
I mean, we all know someone who's lost an armor
leg from a.

Speaker 1 (01:07:13):
Ice cream disaster. Oh my goodness. Hey, listen, just kind
of a warning out there, Jenney, you and I and
John you two said that what a week ago? Last
week we all got a scam email. You want to
tell us about that?

Speaker 2 (01:07:33):
Yes, it was a violation. There was a ticket out
there that I had not paid and allegedly allegedly in California.
But it came from the state of Utah, and it
was actually from the Philippines. Is where it originated from.

Speaker 1 (01:07:47):
If you look at the phone number that the text came,
the country code is the Philippines. And I've got it
right in front of me. Final notice and they'll report
us to the Department of Motor Vehicle that cites the
Utah code. My license will be suspended. I can't drive.
But it says you'll have to use the toll booth

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from now on. We have no titles. So and then
you click on a link and pay a fine, and
they've got your credit card information and they're going to
take you to the cleaners. You think, how about that.
There's so many scams out there right now. It just
keeps going on and on and on. Hey, I've said

(01:08:32):
before you can renew your passport online, and I want
to tell you about the difference between a passport, which
you can travel on, and a passport card. A passport
card identifies your citizenship. You can travel by land or

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sea to Canada, Bermuda, some of the Caribbean and the Bahamas,
but you can't travel by a correct So some people
and actually there are some cruises that will accept a
passport card, but you be very careful. You'll want to
have the booklet. The booklet. Hey, when we come back,

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I've got some White and Mexico deals for up here
on the Travel Show. Thank you for listening to the
Travel Show every weekend at this time on this very station.

Speaker 8 (01:09:36):
We're sittingdicated down on nineteen different radio stations, and thank
you for joining us. And I look forward to this
show every Saturday. I actually get giddy about it.

Speaker 1 (01:09:46):
It's so much fun to talk and dream about travel.
My life has been one of travel. I've had the
privilege of visiting one hundred and fifteen countries. Got a
new one coming up this year. But yeah, it's just
so much fun. We were talking about renewing your passport online.

(01:10:09):
You can do that. There are some conditions. You have
to be at least twenty five years old, the passport
has to have been issued within the last ten years.
But go to travel dot state dot gov. That's travel
dot state dot gov and then click on Passport Renewal'll
give you all the all the requirements there.

Speaker 2 (01:10:31):
And John, that really is a help, it really is.
I'm excited that the next time my passport's do I
can do it.

Speaker 1 (01:10:36):
Online, and you know, the State Department has announced that
they're going to have an actual office in Salt Lake City.
We can walk in and get your pass, but I
don't have a startup date.

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Yeah, I hope it's not lost in the budget cuts.

Speaker 1 (01:10:52):
I hope. So, now, John, how long have you been
in the travel business? Twenty eight years? Twenty eight years?
I've got you by about twenty years. You've had some
interesting travel requests.

Speaker 2 (01:11:07):
I really have.

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
What are a couple memorable ones?

Speaker 2 (01:11:10):
I think the one that was the most memorable is
this guy wanted to take his wife to London. It
was a lifelong dream of hers to go to London.
That she's scared to fly, and she's scared to sail
on a ship. How am I going to get there?

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
Drive?

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
That's about the only issue. A submarine?

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
So sorry? Did he do? Didn't go? Here's here's some
interesting ones. I didn't get these, now I have. I'll
tell you one that I did get. Here's two of them.
A woman said, my child just turned to and I
don't want to buy an airline ticket for him. If
I don't take a carry on? Can I put my

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kid under the seat in front of me? In place
of a carry on and not buy a ticket.

Speaker 4 (01:11:56):
That seems fine.

Speaker 1 (01:11:57):
No, yeah, that's a call to child suit. Yeah. Here's
another one. A family of five was traveling to Hawaii
and I was handling the reservation. The father asked not
to sit any of their family together, but spread them
out over the entire airline. I asked why. That kind
of caught me by surprise. Usually people are fighting to

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sit together, and he said, in case we crash, we
have a better chance than at least one of us
will survive.

Speaker 3 (01:12:27):
But you imagine also being everybody else on that flight
being like, okay, here's some random child that needs to
be taking.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
And here's the diaper bag.

Speaker 4 (01:12:35):
There's the other kid over there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:37):
Okay, here's some interesting requests. I didn't get them, but
agents got them. Can you please book the honeymoon suite
for us and another couple in it?

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Yes, all honeymoon swees have two bigs.

Speaker 1 (01:12:53):
Well yeah, okay, that's gonna be quite the honeymoon.

Speaker 4 (01:12:57):
No more questions.

Speaker 1 (01:12:59):
Now here's one, and you please plan a honeymoon for me,
my bride, and my mother. Mother was going to go
along with it. Can I fish off the cruise ship? Okay? Now,
I would like to go somewhere where there are not
a lot of men. Okay, go to women's conference. Are

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there toll roads on the way to Hawaii? Sure, it's
an expensive toll All right. Now, Jenny, you are the
travel advisor. Let's pretend how can I get to Europe
without going by air or sea? Oh dear, Oh my.

Speaker 3 (01:13:44):
Gosh, there's so many thoughts in my head that are
not super nice.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
Let me tell you we're not going to do on
the radio.

Speaker 2 (01:13:51):
Maybe the game.

Speaker 1 (01:13:53):
Maybe sometime we'll do this. But Jenny and I have
this fun game where I say you are the customer
service department at the company, and I give strange requests
or complaints and these yeah, these you know, say, oh dear,
you know this or that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:14):
They're quite sassy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:16):
Yeah, okay, here's here's one for a wedding. Came to
a for our agent to set up with a wedding planner.
Can you set it up so the whales jump in
the background at the same time I'm proposing to my girlfriend.

Speaker 4 (01:14:33):
It's totally something they can do.

Speaker 2 (01:14:34):
Yeah, that's easy.

Speaker 1 (01:14:35):
Why not? All right? John and Jenny, you've been to
a lot of places. One place you're would love to
go to that. You have never been to Antarctica. That
is my top one.

Speaker 2 (01:14:50):
That's amazing. I actually don't know. This is a horrific.

Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
I've never been to Scotland or Hong Kong.

Speaker 4 (01:14:58):
I think those are my two.

Speaker 1 (01:14:59):
Would you go to Disney, Well, obviously.

Speaker 4 (01:15:02):
But it's not for that reason.

Speaker 3 (01:15:03):
But you growing up went to Hong Kong so much
and you kind of sold it on me. And we
have that pot in our house that you brought back
hand carry carried a giant vase, and that is that
sparked an intrigue for Hong Kong.

Speaker 1 (01:15:16):
For you know, the one hundred and sixteenth country. I've
been all over Europe but never been to Finland. Oh,
I'm going to Finland by myself. I have a group
of four hundred people going on a Norway cruise. It's
a national insurance company and it sales round trip from Southampton,
England to the Norwegian Fjords. And when they're done, I'll

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put them on the plane and I'm flying up to Helsinki, Finland.
I also, I've had three trips to Antarctica, have never
made it. That's one and I want boots on the ground.
We get that absolutely well, thank you for joining us
here on the Travel show. You have a great week.
Do give Morris Columbus a call eight hundred triple nine
six thirty six, Talk to you next day.

Speaker 2 (01:16:03):
The