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On the Sunday, January 30th, 2022 edition of The Travel Guys… In the Travel News, we update you on Crystal Cruise Lines' bankruptcy and what's happening as their ships try to finish their final voyages. Are Crystal's cruise passengers getting home or getting stranded? Our Smarter Traveler segment features comments on buying airline miles, and the importance of being aware of COVID cultural differences if you are traveling right here in the USA. Listeners are invited to call and offer their opinion on the latest surcharges, this time coming from restaurants who are sticking it to diners. What do Travel Guys listeners think? Gwen Duncan, our cruise expert, weighs in on the latest on the water. Is it time to book a cruise, or should you stay on the sidelines?

On the Sunday, January 23rd, 2022 edition of The Travel Guys… In the Travel News, Crystal Cruises cancels sailings as bankruptcy appears near. Cruising right now is a gamble. A gamble that you won’t end up in a “COVID Jail.” In our Smarter Traveler segment, we share a horror story or two. Getting COVID on board a ship might be a travel experience you’d want to skip. Surprise fees are appearing on restaurant checks. Mark ran into an “employee benefits fee” in Napa last week and he tells you how to fight back. Santa Barbara is suddenly on everyone’s “must go” list. We’ll find out what is attracting all the attention in this historic city.

On the Sunday, January 9th, 2022 edition of The Travel Guys… In the Travel News, the CDC announced EVERY ship sailing in US waters as of last Wednesday had COVID cases on board. With Sex and The City's reboot on TV, the tour of its hotspots in the Big Apple has also returned. A group of partying Canadians, who whooped it up on the plane on the way to Mexico, find themselves without a way home. Airlines play a lot of games with seat selection. In recent years, they have figured out a way to monetize almost every desirable seat on the plane, and even some undesirable ones. In our Smarter Traveler segment, we talk about different strategies for avoiding the up charges. If you are a traveler, you have a friend at Travelers United. The consumer group works to try and make airlines, cruise lines and the like behave themselves. Director Charlie Leocha joins us to discuss his disappointment in the lack of consumer friendly directives coming from the White House. Everything from family seating on planes to timely refunds are on Charlie's plate. Carol Pucci is one of the writers for Joe Sent Me, a great pay-to-read web site Mark subscribes to. Carol is one of our "Travel Gals," and recently she wrote about the idea of having all domestic airline travelers COVID-vaccinated.

On the Sunday, November 28th, 2021 edition of The Travel Guys… In the Travel News, Hawaii and New Zealand are among destinations peeling back layers of COVID restrictions this week. The only questions is, will the discovery of the new variant stop everything in its "travel tracks?" Our Smarter Traveler segment reminds you to take a look at the contract. Did you know that if you are going on a cruise, the captain doesn't really have to follow the printed itinerary and the cruise doesn't owe you a thing if he or she doesn't stop in the designated ports of call? We'll make you a smarter cruiser in only ten minutes! Gwen Duncan of Cordially Yours Travel joins us to talk about her specialty, cruises, and to give us a peek inside what customers of her travel agency are asking about these days. What does Gwen see as the hot products for next year?