Jonny Talks with Barbara Qua from Celebrity Cruises

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Episode Transcript

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And welcome in. This is theGo Go Travel Show. I'm your host,
Johnny heart Well, podcasting live fromthe Pittsburgh Travel Showcase and we are
talking to Barbara Quay from Celebrity Cruises. Yes we are, Hio. Are
we doing I just got back fromCosmel, Yes, And the resort I
was at right across from us waswhere a lot of cruises were docked and
I kept on seeing celebrity cruises.Yes, yes, yes, every hour,

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every yes. Absolutely. That isone of our big destinations that we
go to. Obviously right now,it's in the winter months and so all
of us people in the Midwest wantto get down to those Caribbean islands.
So, yes, lots of activityin the Caribbean, lots of different ports
that we go to, not justCosameo. All right, so what other
islands do you go to? Doyou have a variety of the lego four
day five, Absolutely we do.We have anything from three to four nights

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all the way up to eleven twelvenight Caribbean itineraries. The longer itineraries,
you're going to really travel more downto the southern Caribbean islands, so some
more exotic islands down there. Wehave Eastern and Western, so that particular
one in Cosammel was one of ourpopular Western Caribbean itineraries where you get Grand
Cayman, Belize, of course Cozumeland some other islands in there as well.

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And then Eastern Caribbean is also verypopular where you can get some Saint
Thomas, Saint Kitts, Saint John's, and the ports of cal are really
close. I mean they're in Florida, out of Fort Lauderdale, out of
Miami, Tampa. So yeah,lots of cheese from with the name Celebrity
Cruises, which made me wonder,are there a lot of celebrities on board
or do you treat the people whoon board as well? We treat our

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guest as celebrities, So no,you do not have to be a celebrity,
but you will certainly be treated likeone. So Celebrity Cruise has been
ranked for the best service, thebest itineraries, the best accommodations, and
it's just a premium upscale line,so you are going to feel like a
celebrity, all right. So otherthan the Caribbean, what other destinations?

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So we are a global cruise line. We have fifteen lovely ships in service.
So we will go to Alaska.We will go six ships in Europe.
We will go to South America.We have West Coast itineraries. We
have Panama, Canal. We evengo to Hawaii and the Galapago Islands.
What about Alaska? Alaska? Wehave three ships in Alaska. You can

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also Alaska is amazing. It's anactive itinerary. You're getting off the ship.
It's not more about being on theship. It's about seeing the destination.
It's so gorgeous in Alaska. Ifyou want to be active and see
beautiful wildlife. All right, SoI'm sure you've been on a lot of
these different cruises. What are theones that you recommize? Yeah, so
again, obviously right now, Iwould love to be in the Caribbean.

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I want to get out of thissnow. So actually I've been looking for
something in March or April. ButI like to be active when I go
on a cruise, so I liketo see and experience the destination. I
want to know, experience the culinaryfrom that destination. Alaska I love.
I love the wildlife, all thedifferent activities, the hiking you can do,
the kayaking you can do. Youcan also tie in a lovely land

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tour. So you can have yourcruise for seven nights and then you can
add up to an additional six nightson a land tour. What about the
on board you know experience? Yeah, the onboard experience. Again, you
can do as much as you wantor nothing at all. It's totally up
to you. But we offer lotsof activities, always something by the pool
going on. We will do winetastings, will have food demonstrations, a

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lot of different things to do,and they announce it to you and you
can choose and pick whatever you wantto do on board. Barbara Quay,
you did a great job powering throughall those announcements, right. I hope
they heard me out that. Onelast question. If somebody wants more information,
what's the website they go to?Just Celebritycruises dot com or your local
travel agent can also take care ofyou.