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Trevor brings the whole Alaska trip home — a hybrid ex-Costa ship, OG burgers beating Guy's, a whale surfacing 20 feet off the bow, and a fearless passport gamble — while Tom fights the good fight against putting a library where a bar should be. Ten out of ten, would (not) do again.
What they covered
Topics on deck
FRGC #3 Alaska recap
Carnival Luminosa review
Ketchikan, Skagway & Juneau
Whale watching
Food hot takes
Passport-rules field test
The library-complaint debate
Don’t miss
Moments worth the wait
- Wrong-ship cold open — Trevor mislabels his own vessel for the laugh before correcting to the Luminosa.
“It's kind of fire here on the carnival Jubilee and you're listening to the carnival cruising podcastaways.”
- The ship review — the Luminosa is a former Costa hybrid, and Trevor's one knock is the layout.
“There's just not like a single bar that isn't in or around another area.”
- Food hot take — the OG burgers win and the dreaded jello dessert is finally gone, with banana cream pie restored at Sea Day Brunch.
“The OG carnival burgers [are] way better than Guy's Burgers.”
- Whale watching off Juneau — the emotional peak, an emergency stop and a calf alongside.
“We were probably 20 feet from a whale.”
- The passport experiment — Trevor tests an expiring passport under the six-month guideline, birth certificate in hand.
“They looked at the dates… and they let me through they didn't care.”
- The library-complaint debate — a Heald-page commenter wants bars swapped for books, and the crew push back.
“Who wants to coop up in the library all the time… if you're gonna read a book you're gonna want to do that out on deck.”
Golden nuggets
Running bits & lore born here
- The FRGC rating gag — Trevor keeps fumbling it: “I will give it a one out of ten absolutely would do again.”
- Whale-naming lore — “no two tails are alike so that's like a fingerprint,” with previously named whales including Voldemort, Ron, Hermione, and SquarePants.
- The rigged claw machines — Trevor once again wins nothing, plus the ducks-in-the-statue riff about the ship's reclining sculpture.
- The Red Onion Saloon — the Skagway stop and its “reindeer fart” shot (Kahlúa, Baileys, and peppermint).
- New lore: FRGC #4 commitment building — Stephen and his wife already booked, and Trevor committing to that one too.