Travel Show - Custom and Manners Around the World; Disney Update; First Time Cruise Tips

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome to the travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, that get
away guru, and here it is almost mid October. Where
does the seasons go? I'm joined today in studio by
none other than the lovely and talented our Gentinian Gaucho himself,
Carlos Feedo. Oh all right, Carlos Fido, because I got

(00:38):
Pluto next to you. John Potter from the Bountiful office
of Morris Columbus Travel. John joined us last month and
had so much fun we brought him back. John, Welcome
to the Travel Show.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
I love being here.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
Larry. We have a great show lined up today. I'm
gonna teach you how to talk like an Aussie. There
are some new travel scams out there, and we'll talk
about how to avoid them because they are going to
pick your parlat pocket. Carlos will be taking us to
South America. And did you know that Mexico has banned

(01:13):
multiple devices like laptops and cell phones and pads. You
can have one. We're going to give you the details
of this Mexican law that's been on the books but
now is being enforced and the UK will require US
Yankees to complete a It's called it ETA. Now that's

(01:35):
not estimated time of arrival. It's a travel authorization, electronic
travel authorization starting January eighth. We'll give you the details
of that. And what would a show be if John's
here without a Disney update. Well, fellas, I can't believe
that we're almost I mean in the middle of October.

(01:58):
Halloween is what like a couple of weeks away. It's
just absolutelygiving. It is now one of my favorite areas
of the world. You know, well, of course Thailand, but
it's in the South Pacific. I have spent a lot
of my life there. I think next week I'm going
to tell you about this is when I was young,

(02:22):
just out of college, and I've always lived a I
call a national geographic life on the edge, very much
on the edge, usually of a cliff. But I've done
so many incredible things, sailing, sailing through the South Pacific
in a small boat, hiking, and I hiked part of

(02:46):
the Inca Trail there in Peru.

Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well this was like a.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
Million years ago, but catch this. I actually lived with
an Aboriginal family and they didn't they'd never done this.
Dad spoke enough English to barely get by, Mom spoke none.
They had a fourteen year old son twelve year old daughter.
I actually lived with it, and I went completely native,
completely native. Even had the white no comment, no comment,

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But I had the white paint on and everything. I
hunted with a spear. The only thing native I didn't
do is I wore some tevas because my feet were
rough enough as they because they just went barefoot. But
when I say I went native, I went native. And
I and we ate, I mean, I ate lizards. It's

(03:40):
an amazing I'm going to tell that story next week
that that's going to be a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (03:44):
I am sure that that's the only time when you
were thin.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Right, Oh, let's see it. Okay, okay, listen. But I
love the South Pacific Australian New Zealand. You know this
February we have a wonderful group of travel show listeners
traveling with me February of twenty twenty five, and we're
sailing from Sydney to Auckland, New Zealand. Well, we have

(04:12):
just got a February twenty twenty six Tasmanian sailing across
the Tasman Sea. But we will sail from Sydney to Auckland.
We'll visit Tasmania. We'll look for devils. We'll visit the
North and South Island of New Zealand, Fjordland. This is

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Lord of the Rings country. We'll see the Fjordlands, Milford Sound,
the Bay of It's a great itinery. Anyway, the dates
on that for twenty twenty six, it's with Holland America. John,
tell me about hall in America.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh, they're an upscale cruise line. Wonderful food, great experience.
To call them the damn ships because they're all named
something damn.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
Well, I'll be Amsterdam.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, but they they are a great cruise line.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Well it's the Nor Damn so we'll be.

Speaker 2 (05:02):
Normal, okay, nor damned one thing.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
It's nice. I mean, you take your megaships, the whole
five six thousand guess plus crew, and they have some
very attractive things. But that megaship is not for everybody.
Holland America. Most of the ships are in that twenty
five hundred, twenty six twenty.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Seven hundred perfect size.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, and now let's let's play stump the dummy. We
haven't done that in a while. And I want you
to tell me what these Aussie words mean. Some of
them are very very easy. Okay, let's see. How about barbie.

(05:45):
It's a barbecue, that's right, Throw another shrimp on the barbie.
How about a banger?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
I know, sausage in the UK.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
That's the same thing. Okay, bangers and mash. Okay, this
is when I like an ankle biter. Now think about it,
an ankle bider.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
I'm guessing a small dog.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Well, a small child. And now you John, I know,
have a dog. Maybe your children are dogs. I don't know.
An abbo. Yes, yeah, you know. Some of the very
favorite foods Lamington Cake. It's it's a it's a beloved

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cake made with coconut and jam, named after the Governor
of Queensland, Governor Lamington in eighteen ninety six. Pavlova the meringue.
Oh yes, that is with whipped cream and fruit, and
it's often served at Christmas. Now. I love the meat

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pies in Australia New Zealand. I can't get enough of them.
In fact, they have kind of the McDonald's of meat
pies in New Zealand called Georgie's Georgie Pies. But it's
it's you can get it as a whole pie, but
usually it's folded dough with a meat filling. You know,
they used to be just like steak and mushroom, steak

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and cheese. Now they have butter, chicken, ty curry, all
of these different things. Vegamite, now that is just disgusting.
I've tried m it's a it's a savory yeast spread,
trust me, Carlos, It's an acquired taste. Then you know

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what they love is barramundi. It's a fish and it's
very very popular. It's it's a white fish, mild with
a very crispy skin. Now this one, there's two more.
I'm gonna mention. This one is one of the most
popular dishes in Australia. What is it chicken parmesan. They

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just eat that stuff and then not to not to
be a surprised. Fish and chips. You know, I've not
forgiven England on their fish and chips. We used to
get it wrapped in newspaper. Yes, well then the government
and their infinite wisdom thought it was a health hazard.
The the ink, I thought it gave it flavor and

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you gotta put, of course a little salt. But I
like it with malt vinegar. Yeah, you know, I remember
the first time I had malt vinegar. I'm you know
I have I'm Canadian citizen and US citizen. I have
two passports. I was about eight years old with my
cousins up in Canada. We went to this restaurant and
they ordered French fries. We had cheeseburgers and French fries,

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and I think I'm back home. And then they start
dumping vinegar on it, and I'm thinking, boy, cold has
frozen your brains up here. They said, well, just try it. No,
I don't want to try it. Try it. No, no, no,
try it. Okay, Hey, that's pretty good. And then I
put a little bit more vinegar on it.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, it is like some people put lemon on the
on the fish when they cook fish.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
Oh, I can't eat fish without lemon.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
How about you, John, I don't eat fish. Oh that's right,
or the malt vinegar, but no fish.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
I remember years ago you said that's your favorite fish
was at.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Tea bone yep, tea bone steak.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
That's right, that's why you were raised on a farm.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
With yes cam ranch.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yes. Hey, well this Australian New Zealand Cruise. We'll offer
a pre cruise Sydney option. And a post cruise Auckland option.
The actual cruise dates for twenty twenty six February fifteen
to the twenty ninth Sydney to Melbourne to Tasmania, Milford Sound,
Fjordland National Park, to North Island, the South Island, Taranga

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and Rode to Aru which I just love, White Tonguey
Bay and the Bay of Islands, then into Auckland February
fifteen to twenty nine. Check out all the details at
Morriscolumbus dot com and then just scroll down to the
Morris Murdock Escortatory and click on cruises. Now, one thing John,

(10:03):
that's kind of a misnomer out there is that a
cruise price today will always be the same price.

Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yes, that is so not true.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's like an airline ticket, hotel room, price of gas.
As the ship fills up, the price is skyrock. We
have fantastic prices for this two week cruise Australia and
New Zealand. Now, when we come back, I want to
talk about some travel scams. There's some doozies out there

(10:37):
that are duping people out of hundreds and thousands of dollars,
and we're going to tell you how to avoid them
right here on the Travel Show. And I have two
cabins left on Christmas markets on the dead, and you
have two people had to cancel. We got it back.
All that and more on today's Travel Show. Welcome back

(11:13):
to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, they get Away Guru,
joined by John Potter and Carlos Feeda with Morris Columbus Travel.
The Travel Show is sponsored every week by Morris Columbus Travel,
where you always travel more and pay less and Norwegian
Cruise Line, the home of freestyle cruising. John and Carlos.

(11:33):
There's a lot of travel scams out There's a lot
of scams out there, there are, and people just lose
their shirt. You know. We had what last year, a
Salt Lake City based travel company that went belly up,
and I understand for the owners it was had happened before,

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and they just changed their name and they've changed their
name again in our advert tizing under a different name,
and they left a couple of million dollars of debts
and people's deposits, trips were all gone. They said sorry,
and then they opened a new company under a new name.
Right here in this all Lake Valley dear, we were

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here a couple of the current travel scams out there.
One is the bogus front desk call. So you're in
your room, you get a call on the hotel phone
in your room saying, hey, this is the front desk.
We had it when you checked in. We took a

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you know, we swiped your card, but it's come back
with a problem. Could you just verify the numbers on that? Well,
what's happening is, you know, some scammer will call the
hotel and simply say can I speak to room two twelve,
And you don't know that that's a third party call.

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So what do you do? Guys, if you were in
your room or one of our listeners and you got
this call saying we need to verify your credit card,
what do you do? I go downstairs, do the exactly,
say thank you and hang up, and don't call downstairs.
Go in person downstairs and verify what it is. That's

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a great one over there. You know, vacation clubs and
time shares as a general rule, here's my biases. I
don't like them. I really do you get hooked in there? Now?
Am I? Am? I saying that they're illegal? No? Am?
I saying they're a scam. I'm not going to legally
say that, but I don't like the way they're set

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up with all this high pressure sales and then you're hooked,
and you know, the annual fees keep escalating. They say, well,
you can trade it, but you never seem to be
able to trade it. I have found that most of
the vacation clubs, the deals they offer are no better

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than what's already out there.

Speaker 2 (14:11):
John, Yeah, that's what I've noticed as Yeah.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Now, I remember some years ago I got an invitation
from a vacation club and they had a Salt Lake
representation and they invited me to come. So I said, okay,
I told them who I was, I told them what
I do, but they still wanted me to come because

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the recruiting company gets paid a big, a big check
for every person that they recruit to come to this
company's meeting. And I said, well, I'm a travel advisor.
I host the travel I told them everything. I sat
in that meeting, and they lied through their teeth. They
lied and lied. Talked about this. They talked about what

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they could do, things that I knew that he couldn't do.
And I asked a few questions, and finally I was asked,
can we talk to you in the other room. They
removed me from the room and I said, well, here's
the problems I have. And I went boom, boom boom.
What you're saying is simply not true. And he didn't

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challenge me on it. And then I said, and they said,
we can always get the lowest air for it. And
I said, I'll tell you what, tell you what right now,
let's do a test. I have my laptop here, I'll
pick a pick a destination, and you call your travel people.
The whole team against me, and I did some things

(15:43):
to Hawaii and overseas where I broke the fair in
La you know, and I beat them on everyone, their
entire reservation department. Then I invited this guy to come
on the travel show and I said, but I get
to ask you questions. He said no, and they polite.
They were polite, and they asked me to leave. I mean,

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is that typical of all of them? I can't say that,
but I just be really, really careful of obligating yourself
for years to come. And then they say a lot
of things, but if you notice in the fine print,
the only thing that is binding and enforceable is what's written,
and they will sometimes tell you something different than what

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is written. There's a lot of bogus online travel. Now.
I talked about this a few weeks ago, didn't I
this asap tickets? Yeah, well, I'm seeing ads they were
saying four to seventy seven from the USA to Bangkok.
I know that doesn't happen. And to this day, they're
still sending me email saying, oh, your ticket is ready.

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And I said, tell me the airline. Tell me the airline,
tell me the routing, tell me the dates. And I said,
I can go anytime I want that four seventy said well,
now another company's advertising USA to Manila, Tokyo and Bangkok
for three hundred and forty three dollars taxes included John,

(17:11):
that doesn't exist.

Speaker 2 (17:13):
There's stilling people that are paying money and getting nothing.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
And they will tell you here's your reservation, and it
may not exist with that. So folks deal with a
reputable company, people that you can walk right in, sit
down at their desk, not on their desk. That'd be
a little awkward.

Speaker 3 (17:33):
You know.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
You can visit with John or with Carlos in the
Bountiful office. And we have offices in Saint George, in Draper,
Salt Lake, Bountiful, Ogden. We have home based agents in
Idaho Falls, and then Billings we have an office. So
just be very very careful.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
You know.

Speaker 1 (17:54):
Another one is you've won a free trip. Yeah, and
you just have to pay a fifty dollars admittmistration fee
on your credit card. I don't trust those. I don't
trust them.

Speaker 2 (18:06):
We'll pay for it when I get to the airport.

Speaker 1 (18:08):
Very very good, very very good. Okay, listen, We've got
more here on the Travel Show. We're going to be
talking about solo cruise rates. A lot of people, you know,
they add a cruise lines advertisement per person based on
two in a room where hotels say this is the
cost of the room, put one two, or some of

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those folks will put a twenty in it when they're
going to a bowl game for their football team. Hey,
We're going to talk about that and customs and manners
around the world when we come back. Welcome back to

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the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, then get Away Guru,
joined today by John Potter and Carlos Feeder with Morris
Columbus Travel they are both. We keep them sequestered in
the bountiful office. You do, thank you very much. Carlos
and John hotels publish a price or advertise a price

(19:28):
for the room, and it may say double occupancy kids,
maybe kids stay free, or there's an extra charge for
a third and fourth. But you can always put two
people in that room for that room price. John, Yes,
one or two, one or two. But cruise lines John
do it differently.

Speaker 2 (19:45):
They really do. They price everything based on double occupancy.
So say they want four thousand dollars for a cabin,
they're going to charge two thousand per person. Well, if
you got one person in the room, the cabin's still
four thousand dollars, So that one person pays double the
price in their eyes, which yeah, but technically it's the

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cost of the cabin.

Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yeah. Now, you sometimes travel solo most of the time,
most of the time, and you face that at cruise lines,
haven't you. I have yes, Yeah, hotels do they do too.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
All the prices that you see. For example, in all
these search engines, the price is for one room, you
want to have three. I asked that to different companies.
It doesn't give me to me. So when you show
up is the big problem.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Yeah, it really is, and so let's talk about that, John.
There are some cruise lines that are now giving a
break to solo travelers.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
Yes, on select ships, and it's mostly the newer ships.
With both Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Lines, they have
an area for solo travelers. They're very small cabins, but
they are price for one person. It's really nice. They're
all inside cabins. You can't do ocean viewer balcony, but
they are priced very well for a solo traveler. And

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then Crystal Cruise Lines has some solo cabins where they
do not charge extra for a single traveler. They pay
the single rate.

Speaker 1 (21:18):
Yeah, people ask me all the time, all the time,
what's your favorite cruise line. I have to qualify that
I'll be talking about the deluxe, over the top like
Crystal Cruise Line, Seaborn seven seas. Those are we talking
what I call first class, which would be Royal Caribbeean,
Princess and Norwegian. Then you have kind of a premiere

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which would be Disney, Celebrity, Holland America. That's how I
do them. But Crystal, I'll tell you, is just completely
over the top, and they've come out on select cruises
in this year twenty twenty four and next year twenty
twenty five. You pay the individual fare plus maybe five
percent in some cases twenty twenty five percent. But they

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had always charged the double rate. Yeah, yeah, for that,
And that's hard when you're a single traveler.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
It really is. I'll go a lot with my married
friends and they've got a cabin for the two of them,
and I paid the same amount as they do for me.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Well, find a friend, Carlos, go cruising with John. That's right. Now,
let's have some real fun and talk about customs and
manners around the world. Now, Carlos, what is maybe something
unique in your hometown of Guadalajara that is of customs
and manners? You got the wrong, I know Argentina. You'll

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hear about this from your ward members.

Speaker 3 (22:51):
Yes, that's right.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
No, something unique about customs and manners, how you eat,
what you do or whatever customs.

Speaker 3 (22:59):
You know, food is a very special thing. Everywhere wherever
you want, the people want to try the food, the
local food, and I think that you have to understand
what how is served. For example, people say, how come
that a steak in Argentina tastes better. And I said, well,
very simple. Here in the United States, you go to

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the top restaurant, the top ones, and they will put
your steak, but before they finish cooking it, they put
a spoonful of butter and more pepper.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (23:33):
That is not that is not a steak.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
I'll tell you one of the great experiences of my life,
which I've done many times, is in Argentina walking into
an Argentinian steakhouse, like, would you like the hind quarter
or half the half the cow?

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Well, they have two pounds. I have a client that
traveled with me on a side inspection, you know, to
see the city to take a group's said, I have
I live in New York. I have the best meats
that you can have, but then I cannot even digest it.
And I said, well, here it's a little bit. So
what do they put salt? Just a grain salt and

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and he's not heavy to that and the day is original.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
Some years ago I had we were hosting a colleague
from Japan, and of course they eat meat very sparingly,
but he wanted to go to a steakhouse. This was
in California. There was one. It's on the not on
the I eighty, but on a mountain road between Sacramento

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and Tahoe. Now it'll come to me. But this small town,
that very famous restaurant, and kind of the centerpiece was
a three pound steak. You're just that. Nobody orders except
a family. So we ordered it for this guy. And
the look on this, this Japanese gentleman who was very

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proper when they brought three pounds of beef from one ladder,
half a cow on that. Okay, here we go. Here's
some customs and manners from around the world. In Thailand,
don't pat the top of someone's head, particularly children, you know.
And you never publicly shame or argue. You cause people

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to lose face and they shut down. They won't even
they will not help you. And you see some of
these people yelling and screaming because something didn't go. You
simply don't argue. It's called the land of smiles, and
you can disagree with the smile and you work it out.
The other thing is the soles of your feet, the
bottom of your feet should never face the Buddha. Never.

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It's very very disrespectful. And now here is a good
one in the sub Sahara, Africa. You spit to say hello.
A father will spit on his daughter, actually spit on
her when she marries, to bring good luck to this

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new marriage. Maybe that's a custom that you should suggest.

Speaker 3 (26:18):
Some people will have spit on somebody because they don't
like them, but your daughter now.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
Slurping In China and Japan, a soup or a bowl
of hot noodles that none of cools the food, but
that slurp is a sign that you really really like it. Now.
In Ghana, whoever invites pays. So if you if I

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said to you to hey, guys, let's go have some lunch,
that means I have to pay. So Carlos John, I'm
gonna wait for you to invite, say let's go get
some lunch on the Dutch street.

Speaker 2 (26:57):
We know better than that.

Speaker 1 (26:58):
Yeah, now interesting. In Venezuela, being late, not super late,
but just kind of being late is polite. Being on
time or early means you're too eager. You're too eager
to eat, but ten or fifteen minutes late after an

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event is scheduled. The exceptions would be a concert, a funeral,
an airplane or train, But if it was a social gatherer.
You want to be ten to fifteen minutes late for
that one more. In Samoa, never point the bottom of
your feet towards any person you sit side saddle or

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cross legged, or even the soles of your shoes. There's
another interesting custom in Samoa. You know, I spend a
lot of time there, and I have friends. We always
stay at Aggie Gray's hotel there in Samoa. In Apia.
But my friend LETTI Sayili, he's since passed away, and

(28:03):
in the true someone in tradition is buried in the
front yard. He's on the far side of the island
of Upolu, and so I always go out there. Kathy
and I will stay with him for one, maybe two nights.
I load up the car. I always get a pickup
truck and I load it with gifts. We would say,

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may I, oh, forget the koi and fifty pounds bags
of rice and corn, corned beef and vegetables. You know,
he works for the government. He worked for the government
for two tala an hour. It's about a buck fifty
and that was a great job. Samo is the most
traditional of all the Polynesian islands, with the old lifestyles

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of open sided follies, all meals cooked over coconut husts
on an open fire. No indoor plumbing. You got a
hole out there. You know. It's an outhouse built with
home leaves, no structure, you know, just hop a big
wind doesn't come while you're doing your business. But the
tradition there is that guests eat first and adults eat first,

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and you're served by the kids. And they all have
beautiful teeth. They don't have all this processed food and sugar.
The sugar that they get is pineapple and sugar cane.
You know, it's a very different diet. And they you
have to take a little bit of something. Everything they
have you have to at least take a bite of it,

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and then you can because if you don't the size,
it signals that the food's not good enough. So that's
fassam as they call it. And so the kids are
watching you as you eat because they get what's left over.
There's no food set aside for the kids. They get
left over, and that's why the kids are thin and

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skinny and handsome and beautiful, and us old people get
put on pounds. That's the way they do it. Fassamo
in Polynesia a lot, just a lot of very very
fun things there. Now Amsterdam, you've been Amsterdam, I have y. Yeah,

(30:15):
I love Amsterdam. I really do. The places that I
would recommend that you see as the n Frank House
I was there in August. I was at the an
Frank House, the Reike's Museum, Theah, the Van Go with
the Reichs. You have the night watchmen and all these

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different and then Rembrandt's House museum and then Voondel Park.
What you want to do is look for parrots. These
are escapees from pet owners and they have these faral
parrots all over it. And then of course the Canal tour.
It's a beautiful, beautiful city. I love the Indonesian rice

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time full restaurants where a dinner it's like tapas in Espana.
You know, small dish and you'll get twenty six or
thirty different dishes, the most beautiful food, Nazi gooring and
rice tofel. With that, I will be taking a group
to Amsterdam next June, and when we come back, the

(31:22):
itinerary will explode your brain completely. So we got more
here on the travel show, I'll be introducing you to
this exciting, exciting tour. Hope that you'll come with me,
and in our next segment, Carlos Fina will be taking
us to South America Sudamerica. Here on the Travel Show,

(32:02):
Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, the
Getaway Guru, joined by the Disney Dog himself, Pluto, who's
back where he belongs in his doghouse at Morris Columbus Travel.
We're glad to have you back, John. I'm Carlos Feda Miamigo.
For gosh, almost forty years. We have traveled the world together,

(32:23):
haven't we. Hey. I mentioned some things I love about
will I'll be Amsterdam. I love the food there, walking
around the Damn Square and I'm not swearing that's the
name of it, the Damn Square.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
What about the Red Light District, Larry, do you hang
out there?

Speaker 1 (32:39):
Well, not as a patron, but I'll tell you the
Red Light District has shops and restaurants and nightlife, and
yes it has working ladies there too, But it is
the number one tourist destination in the city of Amsterdam,
very very popular and very safe area because there's so

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many tourists with that, you know. I got to tell
you a funny story. You know on your phones. Our
family we track, we know where everybody is by their phone.
And so we had a city tour of Amsterdam earlier
this year and we were walking through and to get

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from one part to the other, we walked through the
red Light district about eleven am in the morning. And
you know there's no working ladies out at that time,
but it's like a seven minute walk. And in the
Gelwick's family, we never miss an opportunity for cheap and
shameless humor. You know, my children, you know that's true,

(33:43):
not true of Kathy, but the kids I have warped them.
And so we walked through it. I get this text
with a screenshot of my trek through the red Light
district with a group and a local guide from my

(34:03):
daughter Jenny. Now you know Jenny, Jenny. Yeah, so this
won't surprise you where she said she And you know
how on a map they have like a chevron station
or a grocery store. Well, we walked past this one
store it was not open, called the World Sex Shop.
So it shows me walking through the red Light district

(34:24):
at the World Sex Shop, you know, right past it,
which every tour group has to walk through. There to
get to where you want to go. And so Jenny
sends me a text with the screenshop says, Dad, you're disgusting.
We need to talk.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
That sounds like Jenny.

Speaker 1 (34:40):
That sounds like Jenny. Anyway, we have a wonderful cruise
that I'll be hosting. This is Iceland to London June
twelfth to the twenty second. We start in Rekivic Iceland.
Three stops in Iceland, then to the Norwegian fjords Fjordland,
also a stop in Olisond and Bergen. Then on to

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Amsterdam and to Brussel or Bruges, which may be the
most beautiful city, rivals old Town Prague and arrivals Paris,
and then across the channel to Southampton and London. Love
to have you join me June twelve to twenty second.
Now let's turn our attention to South America. Quick question.

(35:23):
Some maps say soor America, others say soud America. What's
the difference?

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Thing? Same thing isn't correct in both ways. Some people
will called Sor because South is spelled Sor as you
are and south. Nobody will say sor when they're in
the South Sud.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
But it's on maps.

Speaker 3 (35:45):
Some maps, yes, it is not so much now you know,
now we are getting its martin South America CCC. So no,
I would like to start with this phrase, that is,
I think it is perfect for our for our trade.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality

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and instead of thinking about how things may be, to
see them as they are. You could be sitting in
a couch and watching all these program travel programs everywhere,
you know, and it's fantastic. But I think that you
may be dreaming. But you have to make these wonderful ideas,
these wonderful experiences true, and if it's true, you have

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to bey. Now, many people choose, like Larry says, to
go in a group because you know, they feel comfortable,
they feel the trouble with friends. My job now mostly
at this time is to organize trips for families or
for individuals. John, we had a gentleman today. What did

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we talk about?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
We talked about hiking the w in in Chile.

Speaker 3 (36:58):
In Chile, in the in the Pina National Park. So
we're putting together for him and his wife to go there. Now,
why is it individual? Why can't we go in a group?
Because you can go, you are not accepted as a group.
These are small groups of four or five people tracking
you know, you mixed with other people that come from
different places Europe or whatever, or even within South America.

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And that's the way we do. Now we have another one.
What about when a parent calls you and said, I
want to pick up my son that is serving an
LDS mission in Bolivia or somewhere Argentina, in Argentina, so
what are they going to? A touristic place before or

(37:41):
the kid will announce what they want, Larry, what do
you think?

Speaker 1 (37:46):
Well, everything is different. If you're going to be picking
up missionary, you want the missionary to kind of briefly
outline it within the mission boundaries, especially where do I
want to be on a Sunday? That's right because they're
likely to being tim bucktoo that no tourists would ever
go to. And then you want to know do we

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want as a family pre mission travel in South America?
I mean, you're in the neighborhood. Why don't catch machu
Picu or post mission?

Speaker 3 (38:17):
Usually they do that, even even young missionaris that are
serving a mission in Argentina or Inilea say well, on
the way, can we go and visit Coustou. Yes you can.

Speaker 1 (38:31):
Hey, we'll have more of South America in our number
two of the Travel Show. Welcome back to our number two,

(38:59):
the best two hours in the radio. I'm Larry Gelwick's
your humble host. Yes, humility a character trade I've never
been accused of. Yes, the Mahilari of travel. You're a
beard of truth in travel with my two good amigos,
Carlos Feda and John Potter. Great to have you guys here.
The Travel Show is sponsored by Morris Columbus Travel and

(39:19):
Norwegian Cruise Line. Do check out the Morris Columbus website
Morriscolumbus dot commorriscolumbus dot com. Now you should have or
you can get a direct line to your travel advisor.
I know in the kind of the Provo to Logan

(39:39):
area it would be eight oh one four eight three
for everybody. And Carlos, I believe is fifty two twelve.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Four eight three, fifty two twelve.

Speaker 1 (39:51):
And fifty two ten fourteen. Even better, he's two better
than you. So John is eight oh one four eight
three fifty two to fourteen, and Carlos eight oh one
four eight three fifty two twelve fifty two twelve fifty
two fourteen, or if you don't. If you don't have
a direct line, then simply call one eight hundred triple

(40:16):
nine forty six forty six eight hundred triple nine forty
six forty six and the travel specialist at Morris Columbus
can help you. Now here's an interesting story, fellas u
Tammy Levett lives in Florida, never imagined that bringing her

(40:37):
laptop and an iPad, two devices through customs at the
Cancun International Airport on a work trip would result in
a two one hundred dollars fine. When Levett arrived at
the Cancud airport, she had two check in suitcases and

(40:57):
a carry on with her passing through cut. She was
flagged to one of the tables where her luggage was
examined by an agent. The agent pulled out her iPad
and laptop, telling her you can't have both. Well, she said,
she goes there often for work and for vacations. She said,
she's always brought these devices and this is the first

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time it's been an issue. Well, unlike the United States,
where there's no limit on how many laptops you can
fly with, how many iPads or other devices. Many of
today's passengers do not know that Mexican customs regulation only

(41:40):
allows one portable computer. Now that's a pad or a laptop.
I guess if you're going to carry your PC down there.
That allows one portable computer per foreign arrival, including laptops
and tablets. Otherwise, traveler face a tax of up to

(42:02):
nineteen percent of the deemed value up to four thousand
dollars of the device, according to the country's General rules
for foreign Trade under Baggage and Passenger Alliance. Now, at
the end of the day, I don't get this. You
want to attract tourism to Mexico. I love Mexico, the

(42:22):
Mexican people, especially the Mexican food. You know this does
not attract people. You know this law isn't new. Travelers
from abroad can bring a part a portable laptop, notebook
omnibook are similar, but you if you bring more than one,

(42:44):
it'll be confident skin. Now I've taken more than one.
I've never been stopped.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
Larry in Argentina. When we started with the phone, you know,
the cell phones, you had to register the phone at
the customs office, and then when you came back, you
have to your phone again because people would take the
phone there and sell it. Of course change the cheap.
So now you can do it. But before no, it

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was a rule and regulation.

Speaker 1 (43:11):
Well, rules and regulations. Government just love to have on,
don't they. The UK United Kingdom will require travelers effective
January eighth of twenty twenty five. So what is that like?
Three months away? Three months away? They will require travelers
to obtain an ETA Electronic Travel Authorization. Now Australia already

(43:38):
does this, yes, you know, and New Zealand and New
Zealand do that to enter the country. Now the requirement
will apply to all travelers, regardless of age, who travel
their visa free, including Americans. We have reciprocal visa agreements.
In other words, for a UK citizen, you can come

(43:59):
and you still have to go through the Furriner line
for Immigration and Customs for foreign arrivals, but you don't
have to get an advanced visa. For example, I'll be
in India in November. I have to get an advanced visa. Interesting,
India only does it thirty days in advance of your arrival.
That's it. And I'm going to Dubai before India. No

(44:23):
visa required, but I have to get a visa. It's
an electronic or eVisa to go there. I was in
Vietnam a while back, several months ago, and I had
to get an eVisa, so you know, it doesn't throw
me off. Were just making people aware sort of. If
you have a child, the child has to have their

(44:45):
own ETA. So it will apply effective January eighth to
travelers from the US and a number of other countries. Now.
Because the ETA is not a visa, Europeans and other
visa travelers, including from the US will maintain their visa
free status, but still need to get the ETA to

(45:09):
cross the UK border. The cost will be about ten pounds,
which I'd like to lose. It's about thirteen bucks and
is valid for multiple entries up to six months over
up to six months stay over a two year period.
You will apply for this online and you can just

(45:29):
google that or talk to your Morris Columbus travel advisor.

Speaker 2 (45:33):
Yeah, and the European Union countries are going to be
implementing that. They said they're anticipating mid some mid year
next year as well, So any European Union countries are
going to be doing the same.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
I'd heard maybe as early as may that EU. We
talked about that some months ago when they announced it.
Of course, we'll keep you posted right here, Carlos, I
want to go back to sude America America, Ye, soud America. Yeah,
we were talking about the travel. Individual travels isn't easy.

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People are terrified because they know Abla Espanoli.

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Well, John, remember these gentlemen that came with a wife.
They wanted a tour. Yes, so they came and visited
the office and they said, we would like to go
on a tour and I said, unfortunately, I don't have
a tour to South America. Where do you want to
go to Peru? Fine?

Speaker 1 (46:27):
They sat with me.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
I organized the trip for them in minutes and they came.
They went home and they said, okay, we will go
with that. So they made some changes whatever they wanted
to see, which is very difficult because not everybody wants
to see or wants to go to a to a show,
a particular show, or to go to a destination that

(46:48):
is not a tourist destination. So I think it is
better to go by yourself. You know, these people are
too not so young people. But they said, oh we
will enjoy. They have the best guides because we can
arrange the best guys that we know.

Speaker 2 (47:04):
So they're not on their own, they actually have a
guide with them. A lot of people don't really understand that. Yes,
so it's very easy to do.

Speaker 3 (47:11):
Yeah, because in some countries you don't have that. Yes,
but they come and they pick you up at the airport,
they take you to your hotel. The hotel is already
included in the price. The excursions that included in the price.
You can even decide on the time that you want
to go on a particular excursion. For example, if you
arrive at ten pm, you don't want to get up

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the next morning and leave at nine pm and an excursion, No,
I want to go in the afternoon where I can
have a lunch and enjoy more. That is the great
advantage of traveling individually.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
And we can even set up food for you, meals
of very nice restaurants.

Speaker 3 (47:46):
Or the best restaurant that we have, yes, and the
things that the good thing is this I have been there.
Then I can tell if a restaurant is good or not,
or if a location a venue to visit is good
or not, or if it is dangerous or easy to go.

Speaker 1 (48:04):
That's What are some for individual travelers? What are the
most frequent destination requests? Where do they want to go?

Speaker 3 (48:15):
Well, the number one now that we have is is Peru.
Of course, you know more than any country, but Brazil
is very easy to go. You have been there.

Speaker 2 (48:25):
Oh, I love Rio dasan Eio just loved it.

Speaker 1 (48:28):
And then what'd you love about it? John?

Speaker 2 (48:31):
The beauty Copa Cabana Beach. I'm on Copa Cabana Beach.
And then of course the beautiful christ A statue. It
was just remark we had clouds coming Yeah, we had
clouds come in, so it looked like he was in
the heavens. It was awesome.

Speaker 3 (48:45):
What about what about their shoe ros career?

Speaker 2 (48:47):
Oh that was very good food. You don't walk away
hungry from there.

Speaker 1 (48:51):
It's like Rudisio grill I told the story of you
and I were there and we went to a seafood.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
You wouldn't like it, No, I wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (49:00):
Seafood Shuhascadia and they you know, they have all the
salads and the other dishes, but the plates of sea
bass and lobsters and shrimp that were the size of
a sizzler steakhouse. Lobster and they were shrimp all that more. Well,
you can get a hold of Carlos at eight O

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one four eight three fifty two twelve, fifty two to
twelve and John who is assisting with South America A
one four eight three fifty two fourteen. We're going to
take Pluto to Disneyland when we come back. You're listening

(49:53):
to the travel show. I'm Larry Gelwicks, that get Away Guru,
joined today by Carlos Fina and John Potter with Morris
Columbus Travel, where you always travel more and pay less.
And may we just say thank you? We have so
much fun on this show. I look forward to it
every every week and Saturday mornings. I just can't wait

(50:14):
to get here. But you know, without you, we don't
have a show. Without you, we don't have a job,
we don't have a company. So thank you, thank you,
thank you. We get a little carried away at times,
but it never goes past us. How grateful we are
to you our listening audience. John, it's good to have

(50:35):
you back. And you're on the front lines of Morris
Columbus Travel. What are you getting calls on? What are
people calling about destinations or vacations? What are the popular
ones out there?

Speaker 2 (50:46):
I'd say the most popular ones right now is Europe,
especially Italy is very popular. Getting a lot of calls
for Cancun, Mexico.

Speaker 1 (50:54):
Don't bring more than one device, that's right.

Speaker 2 (50:58):
And then also we're getting a lot of calls on cruising,
especially Alaska, but a lot of cruising.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Yeah, Alaska for twenty twenty five, you better be booking
it right now. Things are filling up and the prices
have gone up. Considered it well, you mentioned cruises, John,
what are some questions that our listeners, whether they're sitting
down with you or any of our great Morris Columbus

(51:25):
travel advisors, what are the questions they should be asking
about their next cruise before they book it.

Speaker 2 (51:32):
I would say, first and foremost is what type of
cabin do you want? Do you want the inside cabin
with no window, which, for price wise, a lot of
people like that, I personally do not. So what type
of cabin would you like? Do you want to view?
Do you want a private balcony? I think that's very important.
Another question we get a lot of is is my

(51:53):
deposit refundable? Because you don't know what's going to be
going on next April and so and again.

Speaker 1 (52:00):
A refundable when possible.

Speaker 3 (52:02):
Yes, Now, John, are the people traveling as a couple
or a group of friends or is it an unorganized cruise?
What's happening with that?

Speaker 2 (52:13):
Yes, all of the above. Really, we're doing organized cruises.
We're doing groups of family and friends. Well, just couples.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
We just talked about that Iceland to London cruise group,
British Isles, the New Sydney to Auckland September our excuse me,
February fifteen to March the first twenty twenty six. But
others just go individually.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
A lot of couples, a lot of honeymooners like going
on cruises.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
It would be the ultimate waterbed for your.

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Honey it would, yes.

Speaker 1 (52:46):
Yes. Do you remember the story and maybe you were
on the air with me when we got this call
from a young fella and he said, I'm engaged, we're
getting married. We'd like to go on a cruise for
our honeymoon. And I said, okay, how old are you
and he said twenty three. I said first marriage. Yeah,
And I said you're healthy, healthy young men. Oh yeah,

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we're both very very into fitness and all of that.
I said, great, I would recommend Disney Cruise Line. And
there was this stun silence on the phone live radio,
and he goes, well, Disney Cruise Line, isn't there like
thousands of kids running all over this ship? And I said, exactly,

(53:30):
it'll be the best form of birth control you could
possibly have on your honeymoon. Yeah. I don't know if
he went or not.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Carnival Cruise Lines on some of their older ships, they're
very lost prices for a room with two bunk beds.
And I had a fellow call me and he's booking
a cruise for his daughter and future son in law
that was getting married for their honeymoon. And I was
given him prices as just a little Baja cruise for
de Baha cruise, and he says, well, I'm seeing this
price and I says, that's a room with two bunk beds.
I don't think you want that for a honeymoon. And

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he says he didn't believe me, and says I'll book
it myself, and then I can't believe He called me
back and says, I wish I would have listened to you.
My daughter and son in law got there and it
was a room with two bunk beds. There was no
other rooms to move them to.

Speaker 1 (54:12):
And it's like a closet. I've been in there. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (54:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
They actually wound up pulling the mattresses off the two beds,
putting him on the floor, and that's where they spilt
their honeymoon.

Speaker 1 (54:21):
You could not slow that young man down. Actually, maybe
the dad said don't touch my daughter.

Speaker 2 (54:28):
That could be that's why he wanted to book that room.

Speaker 1 (54:30):
Oh, funny, funny stuff. What are the questions should we
be asking?

Speaker 2 (54:35):
Do you need a passport? That's a question We get
a lot a lot of the cruises. You do not
need to have a passport, but we strongly recommend it.

Speaker 1 (54:43):
We recommend it. I remember the family was on a
Mexican Riviera A crew seven days Cabo Muzetland, Porto Way
AFTA and the sixteen year old son in Mazitlan had
an acute pendicitis. Saw the ship doctor. They family had
to grab all the stuff and go to a Muzzetland hospital.
Well that would grab your attention, but they did not

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have passports. If you are leaving from a US port,
you know, Alaska, Mexico, Caribbean and coming back to that
US port. You don't need a passport, you have to
have proof of citizenship. But they didn't want to do
the get the passport, spend the money, and it took
them a week to get passports in Mexico to come back,

(55:29):
and there their son languished in the Mexican hospital. No
disrespect to Mexican hospitals. But you want to be home. Yeah,
one more question that you ought to be asking.

Speaker 2 (55:38):
I would say, uh, cabin location. Do I want to
be down low? Do I want to be up high?

Speaker 1 (55:45):
Do I want to keep it on keep it on
the down low?

Speaker 2 (55:48):
Yeah? Yeah, Okay.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Now if I have motion sickness, where do I want
to be?

Speaker 2 (55:52):
You want to be low into the middle?

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Yeah, Just think of a palm tree, Carlos swing. There's
a lot more swaying at the top than at the bottom.
Here's the question I think you should ask is who
is the target audience, the target population this cruise line
is trying to attract. And I'll give you an example.
I mean, they'll take anyone. What am I going to see? Well?

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And I'll tell you how to find out. Go online
to their website and look at the pictures. Get a brochure,
what are the photos of people like? Now, John, If
I get a Disney cruise brochure, what am I going
to see in photos?

Speaker 2 (56:28):
Families?

Speaker 1 (56:29):
Families? Will they take a senior couple grandma and grandpa
by themselves? Absolutely yes, but that's not their target audience.
Whereas if I do something say Crystal or Seaborn or
Regent seven Seas Ultra Deluxe. What type of photos am
I going to see older adults? I would say kind
of a relaxed country club book. And so will they

(56:54):
take teenagers? Well, yes they will now, some like Vergin voyages.
Some on Viking is adults only eighteen and old, So
that's another question. Sit down with your travel advisor and
ask these questions before you go cruizes. Yes, some are,
some are adults only, some allow families. The big difference

(57:18):
usually is the cost and going during the school year. Hey,
two big Viking cruise events. When we come back here
on the Travel Show, Welcome back to the Travel Show.

(57:44):
I'm Larry Gelwiz. Then get Away Guru joined by John
Potter and Carlos Feeda. Me and Me goes here on
the Travel Show. Do you know guys? This is my
thirty third year hosting the Travel show except for the
three years I was a man of the cloth in Fresno.
Thank you very much.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
You started doing this when he was five years older.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Thank you very much. You look at my hair now
your hair too, and what little hair Carlos has. I
call it gray smarts. There are things in life that
you only learned through time and experience. I was in Gunnison, Utah,
on Sunday two like two weeks ago, you know, the

(58:27):
end of September, and I spoke at the Gunnison State
Correctional Facility or prison. Had a whole bunch of these
these inmates there. What a wonderful group they were. They
had to earn privileges to sign up to come. And
that's one thing I talked to him about is what
I call grace smarts, where there are things in life

(58:51):
that you only learn through time and experience. There's no
book learning for this stuff. And I look at the
three of us and the rest of the Morris Travel staff,
but I look at Carlos, who I've said he's not
a walking encyclopedia, because that has a limitation. It's he

(59:13):
is a walking google on all things in Latin America.
And I mean that sincerely, I've tried to stump him
and I can't. And so you know, if you have
any questions, any any thought of traveling anywhere in Latin
America with a friend, with a family as a solo traveler,
or join one of our Morris Columbus travel groups, talk

(59:35):
to Carlos eight oh one four eight three fifty two twelve.
Then John. Now, John is also a walking google on
all things Disney, and I might just say all things
on leisure travel, you know, wherever you know, Mexico, Hawaii, Europe.
But the Disney's your passion, isn't it love? Why is that?

(59:58):
I don't know?

Speaker 2 (59:59):
It was an but I was an adult before I
got my love of Disney, not when I was a kid.
As an adult, had you been drinking maybe? So, I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:00:07):
Well, you know my daughter Jenny that you know, she's
in Disney file her.

Speaker 2 (01:00:11):
Say, we talked Disney whenever she comes in, and she's good.

Speaker 1 (01:00:14):
She really is good. In fact, I had her on
the show some years ago. I think I'll bring her
back talking about She and her husband have two children.
Milo turns nine, No in two weeks. In two weeks
On the twenty ninth, you know, it's just unbelievable. I
said to her the other day, I said, you know,
he'll be nine at the end of the month, and

(01:00:37):
in just four years he'll be a teenager.

Speaker 2 (01:00:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:43):
That s you know what. The dream of every parent
is that our kids don't do the stupid things that
we did when we were kids. But they do. They do,
they do anyway. John eight oh one four eight three
fifty two fourteen, Just fantastic. Hey listen. Carnival Cruise Line

(01:01:05):
put out a public statement warning people about buying prescriptions
in other countries import cities they're talking about. I actually
asked my personal physician that about that, and he agreed
for this reason, he said, you do not know the quality.

(01:01:29):
And you know, I've, for example, a simple one like
a box oficillant that's a prescription here, but in Mexico
you can buy it at the convenience store. Yes, and
other things, sleeping. A lot of medications you simply don't
have to have a prescription for. But there's no telling

(01:01:50):
of the quality. So you're better off dealing with a
pharmacy if you have to get something.

Speaker 3 (01:01:57):
But you know in Mexico they have this is the
airport they have real pharmacies. Yes, everything that we can
all buy here over the counter.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
I asked for happy pills. Yes, I'll just leave it
at that.

Speaker 3 (01:02:11):
No questions.

Speaker 2 (01:02:12):
Are you going to start taking them?

Speaker 1 (01:02:14):
Yeah? I need to. Hey, listen, you know, last month
in September, we had two wonderful Viking Cruise events with
Morris Columbus Travel, one in Ogden and the the one
that was fantastic was a night with the Utah Symphony.
You no, tickets started at seventy nine dollars if you
bought them from Symphony. We gave them out at ten

(01:02:36):
bucks apiece with it and you just attended a short
seminar where there's two more and these are free coming
up this well, this next week. The first is in
Saint George for our listeners down at katie XU Radio
in Southern Utah, at the Saint George office in Saint George,

(01:02:57):
of course, and that will be at three p on Wednesday,
October sixteenth. So that's coming up this week Wednesday, October sixteenth,
at the Morris Columbus office in St. George. Viking Cruises
will be there. There'll be promotions, they'll be discounts, they'll
be information they just can't get anywhere else. And then

(01:03:17):
up here in Salt Lake on Thursday, October seventeenth at
six pm at the Morris Columbus Travel Salt Lake Office
and Corporate Headquarters, which is at first South, second East.
It's an office building, but we have the ground floor
and there'll be free parking there also, So Wednesday, October sixteenth,

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this week in Saint George at three pm, six pm
in Salt Lake on Thursday October seventeenth, John, what do
you like about Viking Cruises?

Speaker 3 (01:03:49):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (01:03:49):
What isn't there to like? Their food is really good,
their excursions are top notch, their vessels are beautiful. They
do a good job with cruising, and they've got a
very loyal following. And almost everybody's heard of Viking river Cruises,
where some of the others they haven't heard of.

Speaker 1 (01:04:04):
They do a lot of advertise, they do a good
jobs and very good John. What's unique, Carlos about Viking.
It's the only major cruise company that I know of
that offers both river cruises in a traditional sense and
ocean cruises.

Speaker 2 (01:04:19):
I think they are the only one.

Speaker 3 (01:04:21):
Yeah, I did that last Octoria, but before that one,
we did Alma Waterways with you Larry on the Danube.

Speaker 1 (01:04:28):
Yeah, and Alma Waterways is a great one. I mentioned
earlier that we had sold out Christmas markets on the
Danube December fourth, the eleventh. We had two cancelations for
health reasons, and so we have two cabins at enormous discounts.
You're going to save in most cases over one thousand

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dollars per person of what you would pay directly to
Alma Waterways, which is a deluxe, over the top river
cruise company. And we'll start Nuremberg, will be at Germany,
Austria and Budapest. I consider you know, I've been everywhere.
I have been everywhere. I'm a travel junkie, and I
think of all my adventures, certainly in the top three

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or four are the Christmas markets of Europe, a six
hundred year tradition. But you not only visit do we
visit the Christmas markets, We see all the sight seeing
we'd see on the Danube at any time of the year.
It's a lot love to have you join me, Kathy,
and I'll be hosting that particular one. Now, why is
it Why do you suppose that I love Thailand and

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Southeast Asia so much.

Speaker 3 (01:05:39):
I think it's that food, Larry or something like that.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:43):
I do love the food, yes I do. It's fresh,
it's often organic and saving. John, why do I You've
known me for twenty plus years.

Speaker 2 (01:05:55):
I think it's the people that You've got a lot
of friends over there, Yes, I do.

Speaker 3 (01:06:00):
And the other family.

Speaker 1 (01:06:01):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (01:06:02):
According to Kathy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:04):
Oh that's a funny story. That's fun. Should I tell it?

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (01:06:09):
Typically I go to Thailand about three times May a year,
maybe four. In twenty sixteen, I made seven separate trips
to Thailand. I had groups. I was a guest of
the government. They paid all my expenses if I would
participate one of the participants in this big world travel conference,

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and so they in a sense hired me to come there,
and I jumped to the chance to go. But we
go over you know, one of the big parts of
our business is called incentive travel, where companies will use
travel as an incentive to their best employees and blessed
clients all of this, and so we often go over

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there on a site visit site, siite. They want to
make sure that everything's going well. So we had this
one particular client who'd be taking two hundred and fifty people.
Previous to that, I took it in a national insurance
company of four hundred and fifty people. We manage them.
That had a wonderful time. Anyway, this company had two

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hundred and fifty people going later actually the next year,
So early December, I'm meeting the president and CEO at
the airport along with his wife and the vice president,
you know, and we're going to visit all the hotels,
all the activities, all the restaurants. He just wants to
make sure it lives up to the billing that I

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gave it, which it did. So Kathy's driving me to
the airport, and as I said in the Gelwick's Family,
we never miss an opportunity for cheap and shameless humor.
Kathy says to me, now, this is your seventh trip
to Thailand this year, and I go yeah. Then, with

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a kind of a smile and a smirk on her face,
she is the one driving. She says to me, Okay,
what's her name? And I just said fong Ling. Now,
Fungling happens to be one of my favorite restaurants in
Hong Kong, and it became the joke, and so the
kids even to this day, and that was about, oh gosh,

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five years ago. Even to this day, they said, oh, Dad,
how's the other family. I got that, just the other
I mean like two days ago from my son, how's
the other family? And I say, oh, the kids are
growing up so fast. They're back in school. And Kathy says,
I never should have said that to you. So a
lot of fun. Anyway, I do love it. It's the people,

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it's the culture, it's the Land of Smiles, and I
have put together and I've done it myself. I'm so
proud of this one, something we have never done before.
We've done parts of it. It'll be Thailand, Vietnam and
Loi Kratong. And you remember last week we had Candy
from the Tourist Authority of Thailand, their tourist bureau on

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the show last week talking about Loikratong the most colorful,
most outrageously beautiful festival. So we'll see Bangkok fits A
Nuluksuko Tai, the ancient capital of the kingdom, and then
up to Cheng Mai, the cheng Dao Valley and elephant safari, shopping, shopping,
and then we fly to Vietnam. Now, John When is

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the last time we did a Vietnam tour.

Speaker 2 (01:09:36):
It's been a while.

Speaker 1 (01:09:37):
It has been yeah, back in the sixties with Gis.
I don't know. Anyway, We're gonna fly up to Hanoi,
spend a couple of days there, and then we have
charted an entire live aboard boat. It has twenty cabins
we can take, and we can take thirty nine people
because that's what the bus holds. We're gonna people have
already been signing up for this. It's a UNESCO World

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Ha Heritage Site. Three days, two nights out on the
on the Hellong Bay. If I showed you a picture, folks,
you would instantly recognize it. And then we'll fly down
to Ho Chi Min City or Saigon, spend a couple
of days there and come back. We have never done
one like this. The dates are October thirtieth to November fifteenth,

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twenty twenty five. Hey, more on the Travel Show when
we come back. Welcome back to the Travel Show. I'm

(01:10:45):
Larry Gelwiz, the Getaway Guru, joined by John Potter and
Carlos Feda with Morris Columbus Travel. Check out the website
Morriscolumbus dot com and on the homepage just scroll down
to Morris Murdoch Escorted Tours, then click on cruises or
a geographic destination. I do hope that you will join

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me on Thailand, Vietnam and Loy Kretong will leave on
the Red Eye flight October thirtieth. The reason for that,
the reason we haven't done it. I did this about
twenty years ago, Lloyd Kretong, but it's on the lunar calendar,
and it's always been pushed up too close to Thanksgiving,
and so it's been twenty years since I've been to

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Lloyd Kotong. But this year it's November the fifth. Oh
excuse me. Next year it's November the fifth, and so
we have to go there and get ourselves. It's a
one day celebration, the big celebrations one day, but then
a week afterwards you're seeing things. It's just over the top.
And he goes all over the cities, it goes all

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over the country, but the epicenter is Sukotai, the ancient capital.
Mister Potter, Mister Potter, Disneyland. What's going on? I just
read they're just like record attendance going on. Yeah, and
the prices don't seem to discribe.

Speaker 2 (01:12:08):
It don't go down because people are still going right now.
They're in the middle of the Halloween and Halloween starts
early and earlier every year. Last year, well because of
the numbers. Because of the numbers. It's funny. They have
a special Halloween party and the Disneyland party sells out
within hours of it going up for sale. Disney World

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does not do that. They have the party, but they
still have availability for this year for their parties.

Speaker 1 (01:12:33):
You know, some years ago we took the family, we
were down in Ocean Side and went to Disneyland for
a couple of days and it was it was over
in California, adventure and with the Halloween parades what do
they call that Halloween parade?

Speaker 2 (01:12:53):
Parade?

Speaker 1 (01:12:54):
Yeah, yeah, but it was absolutely marvelous, you know.

Speaker 2 (01:12:57):
Yeah, And there's a lot to do, and then they
go right from there. They can take a couple of
weeks to get everything down and then usually around the
nineteenth of November when the Christmas season starts, and that
is my most favorite time of year.

Speaker 1 (01:13:09):
There will you be going this year for Christmas?

Speaker 3 (01:13:11):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
Course, Well, what a silly question. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:13:13):
Last year I did my favorite trip, went to Disney
World for five days, flew straight to California and went
there for three days, and flew home.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
Why did you get a job as goofy or something
I should?

Speaker 2 (01:13:23):
Well, it wouldn't be the same word BNKI. Yeah. So now, Larry,
let's play stump the dummy with you, all right in reverse?
How many cruise ships does Disney Cruise Lines have sailing
at this time?

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
Five?

Speaker 2 (01:13:37):
You got it?

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (01:13:39):
Whoa with some rank amateur?

Speaker 2 (01:13:42):
So when does number six come out?

Speaker 1 (01:13:46):
Uh, you're talking about the pregnancy. No, it will come
out in the future, the.

Speaker 2 (01:13:53):
Future December twenty first, just a few months.

Speaker 1 (01:13:57):
Will you be there on the inaugural.

Speaker 2 (01:13:59):
I will not. It was a little out of my
price range. Plus I want to be home with my
family for Christmas. It goes December twenty first. My good
friends are on this cruise, and so the Disney Treasure
comes out December twenty first, and then in twenty twenty
five they've actually had two ships coming out. They've got
the Disney Destiny coming out in November of twenty twenty five.

Speaker 1 (01:14:24):
Where are these new ships sailing the Caribbean?

Speaker 2 (01:14:26):
They're going to be in the Caribbean and the Bahamas.
But a very unique Disney cruise ship is coming out
sometime in twenty twenty five. They have not announced the
date yet. The Disney Adventure, Now we talked about this.

Speaker 1 (01:14:40):
Is just the way that's going to Sydney.

Speaker 2 (01:14:42):
No, it is going to Asia. It's going to sail
out of Singapore. It was the original going to be
the Global Dream and the company went bankrupt.

Speaker 1 (01:14:51):
Is that the ten huge cruise ship?

Speaker 3 (01:14:54):
You know what?

Speaker 1 (01:14:55):
I remember you and I talking about that a couple
of years ago on the radio when they were just
redesigning it. Yeah, and we said they haven't announced where
it's going, but we will bet it's Asia.

Speaker 2 (01:15:07):
Yeah, it's going to say a out of Singapore, and
it's mostly going to be the cruise ship is the destination.
They aren't going to have that many ports of call,
but they've got all kinds of fun activities and things
that the cruise ship is the destination.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
I trust you'll sample it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
I will sample that, I guarantee you, and I'm put
in a Disney Asia parks to go with it.

Speaker 1 (01:15:27):
Jo, we talked about that. I talked about that when
like five months ago, and I said, wouldn't it be
fun to have it. I was just talking out loud,
talking big, and I said, an Asia disney Land of
Hong Kong, Shanghai and Tokyo. And I've been to Hong Kong,

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Disneyland and Tokyo, haven't been to Shanghai. I got to
add that, and we started getting calls are you really
going to do this? And so I mentioned that to
Pluto here, we really are.

Speaker 2 (01:16:00):
We ought to do that. I think both of us
ought to go.

Speaker 1 (01:16:02):
I think so too, and Jenny absolutely, Oh can you
imagine we better do it? She teaches school in the
Granite School district. We'd better do it over that. I
don't want to go and be outdoor in the parks
in this July. No. No, I remember once as being
the good dad. Kathy stayed at home with our newborn

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who was keating. He was just like eight months old.
So I took all the kids in June after school
two and they were like eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, and
I took him there and it was Orlando. I thought
I was gonna melt. Yeah, So what else you got?

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We got about thirty seconds?

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
Okay. So by the year twenty thirty one, Disney plans
to have thirteen ships sailing the oceans worldwide.

Speaker 1 (01:16:56):
You know what, Let's have you back sometime here on
the show, and I want you to talk to our
listeners of why the Disney cruise price which is higher
than another cruiser, why it's so worth it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:11):
Glad to do it.

Speaker 1 (01:17:11):
I'm sure you will. Hey, we'll catch you next week.
I'm going to tell you about living with the Aborigines
next week on the Travel show