Embarkation Day Secrets: Insider Tips for Smooth Sailing

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Grab your backpack and check it for contraband — the golden boys and girl walk you through embarkation day step by step, from countdown-queen packing to Uber-vs-parking hacks and the sweet salvation of e-muster. It's the friend-with-a-plan you wish you had at the port, minus the imaginary foot massages.

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Moments worth the wait

• The platinum-lounge fantasy — Trevor spins the perks into pure fiction.

  “People come over and rub your shoulders and tell you how nice you are… And then you get foot massages. And it's really nice. I love it.”

• Countdown queen — Jenn owns her cruise-planning personality.

  “When I'm three months out… I'm just annoying people with my countdown… I as I drive everyone around me nuts with that and the countdown queen.”

• Jenn's confessed cruise sin — the fly-in-that-morning admission she knows she'll catch heat for.

  “When we sail out of Long Beach, listeners don't get mad at me. I fly in that morning and I know everybody says don't do that.”

• Faster to the Fun master plan — Trevor's grand scheme to corner the market.

  “If you ever cruise with Trevor, Trevor has a plan to buy out all of the faster the fun. Except one… I just need all the platinum's on board.”

• The parking math — Gary shows why two Ubers beat the parking lot.

  “The most I've had to pay for my two ubers was like right at 71 dollars where minimum parking for cruising is 110 120.”

• E-muster appreciation — the crew salutes the end of standing by the lifeboats.

  “Having to stand out there on that whatever walkway thing is by those lifeboats… E-muster is probably the best thing that came from all that.”

• The guy's-burger tragedy — the recurring lament of a burger that got away.

  “There was a tragedy one day that a young man who was getting a guy's burger was not able to get his guy's burger.”