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I am delighted to welcome this week on The Joy of Cruising PodcastGavin and Luke, creators of the UK-based cruise blog and YouTube channel, Cruise Monkeys. Let me set the stage by pointing out The Wave Awards is the UK cruise industry’s premier award; included are award categories for cruise lines, ships, travel agencies, and most pertinent to The Joy of Cruising Podcast—Favorite Cruise Blogger. As you are aware I greatly appreciate cruise bloggers and vloggers and have written about them extensively. In the books, I call them “cruise community champions.” Several of the cruise personalities I have featured in The Joy of Cruising Trilogy, as well as The Joy of Cruising Podcast are previous Wave Awards winners and finalists. This year’s award ceremony will be held in London in November. Most of the 2023 Favorite Cruise Blogger finalists have been featured in the books and/or guests on the podcast. Cruise Monkeys has not, and I thought this was a great opportunity to get to know Gavin and Luke, and to share another couple of passionate cruisers' stories with the cruise community.

Gavin and Luke have been at this for quite some time after their first cruise in 2014. The cruise was on P&O Aurora, and as with most first-time cruisers, they fell in love with cruising. Gavin and Luke launched a blog, initially called Holidays At Sea in 201x, and rebranded it to Cruise Monkeys in 2021. Their tagline is ‘Bananas about cruising.’

Cruise Monkeys are well known for their P&O and Cunard cruises—and have sailed the entire fleet. However, they sail a wide variety of lines and I look forward to getting their reflections about a couple of ships I’ve also experienced, as well as one I will be boarding in a few months. They have a casual style of wandering around the ship taking in the atmosphere, and as they point, ‘working our way through the cocktails.’ In fact, they are rather unabashed in noting their appreciation wine and cocktails! ‘We tend to always favour inside cabins, this is so that we can spend money on more cruises and a drinks package—if you’ve seen our vlogs, you will know we like a cocktail or two! We bring you along with u; we love our wines so are often tipsy but don’t hide this as we want to show the real us.’

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