Bliss Cruise Recap Part 1: Rocking the Boat

Bliss Cruise Recap Part 1: Rocking the Boat  | Episode 234

In this episode of The Swing Nation Podcast, the top-rated podcast about non-monogamy and swinging, Dan and Lacy recap Part 1 of their latest adventure aboard the legendary Bliss Cruise.

The trip kicks off in Ft. Lauderdale with a high-energy pre-party hosted by Topless Travel before everyone sets sail for a week at sea with thousands of lifestyle couples. Day 1’s theme? Pirates. But before the real fun could begin, Mother Nature had other plans. Unseasonably rough seas, cold weather, and a rocking ship had plenty of cruisers battling seasickness as the voyage got off to a chaotic start.

Despite the rocky conditions, Dan and Lacy still managed to make their way to the playroom and keep the party going. Along the way, they share the behind-the-scenes moments from the first night onboard — including how the cold weather, rough seas, and even a surprisingly heated disagreement about hair care nearly derailed the trip before it really got started.

Whether you’ve been on a lifestyle cruise before or are curious what the first day at sea is really like, this episode is packed with funny moments, honest reflections, and a behind-the-scenes look at how this wild adventure began. Don’t miss Part 1 of the Bliss Cruise recap.

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SPEAKER_00 0:00

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SPEAKER_02 0:22

Welcome to the Swing Nation Podcast, a podcast by swingers for swingers, where we look to educate others and push back on the negative stigmas and misconceptions associated with our lifestyle. Come with us and share our pineapple journey as we travel the globe, interview the experts, learn and grow together. Join the nation.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

And Southern Girl.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

And we are back with another full episode of the Swing Nation Podcast.

SPEAKER_00 0:59

Oh, you almost said Tuesday Docs, didn't you?

SPEAKER_02 1:01

No, I didn't.

SPEAKER_00 1:02

Oh, in my mind you were going to. We're Danny Winsley. It's 8 a.m., guys. It is 8 14 a.m. This is early for us.

SPEAKER_02 1:12

It is early.

SPEAKER_00 1:13

I have a full face of makeup on.

SPEAKER_02 1:15

Well, we had just had a um an interview with somebody in Paris.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

And so we had to be at the office to start podcasting at 7 a.m. So that's like we had to be here at like 6.5. No, we left our house at 6.15. That I don't get up that early unless I have to catch a flight. Listen, and I know that I'm extremely privileged to say that and do this job. And we have gotten spoiled. It was a rough, it was a rough morning. So anyway, I'm tired. If I don't sound sound like my normal chipper self, that is why.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

Yeah, 100%. Okay. So let's get into it. This episode, we're talking all things Bliss Cruise. Yeah. So if you don't know, we just got back from Bliss Cruise. Uh it was the February 2026, what they called the sexy sampler cruise, which was four days, four nights, five days. Um, and we went to the Bahamas.

SPEAKER_00 2:13

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:15

So let's get into you want to talk about like should we should we talk about the whole thing and then give our perspective at the end? Should we talk about our like overview of our perspective now?

SPEAKER_02 2:27

Uh let's save it for the end. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:29

I have some things to say.

SPEAKER_02 2:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Yeah. I have some thoughts.

SPEAKER_02 2:33

Okay. I'm I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

SPEAKER_00 2:35

I'm sure you think the same thing. Okay, so um we left. So, you know, Dan likes to drive, which I hate. I would rather fly. Um, but he we had four suitcases, and in his mind, I think he thinks that's gonna cost like$500 for baggages, for bags, you know, like bag fees, which we get our first two for free because we're like a whatever member of American. So I don't know where he comes up with his math logic there, but he wants to drive. I hate it, it's a a point of conflict every time we go on these trips because I do not want to fly, and he does. Um, he also has a bad back. So um, oh I mean, I want to fly, he does not. Um, so really driving, it's it's about a 12-hour drive with no stops. So that's almost too much for him in his back. It's idiots too.

SPEAKER_02 3:31

That is my mat. So if it was any further, if it was like another three or four hours, I would not drive.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

But the problem is, is it doesn't take us 12 hours. It takes us like 14, 15, you know, especially like we're not pulling the trailer this time, but like a lot of times we're going to South Florida, we are pulling the trailer. So you add that, and then you add bathroom breaks and whatever happened, yeah, a wreck, traffic. It's it took us 15 hours to get home. Um, so anyway, we all that to say, we left on Saturday. The topless travel meet and greet was on Sunday, and then we got on the ship on Monday. So we left Saturday lunchish, a little, maybe a little 11 or 10. Around there, probably. Yeah. And we drove until like 10 p.m., which is actually kind of early for us. Usually we'll drive closer to midnight. Not sure why we stopped as early as we did, because the next morning we ended up needing to drive. So we like to get there about like one on the day of the um of the meet and greet, because one, we're getting STD tested. So when we got it the next morning, we still had like three and a half hours to drive, which wasn't ideal. So we ended up getting to Fort Lauderdale at like two on Saturday. And the um we do I know my status. Y'all know we're we're big supporters of I Know My Status here on this podcast. And they set up, they have a they work closely with Bliss and they set up kind of like a pop-up SCD STI testing at several of the hotels down there. They also have like an actual brick and mortar location that you could go to as well. Um, but it really, if you're ever going on a Bliss cruise, it's super convenient.

SPEAKER_02 5:14

Yeah, it is, I in my opinion, it's the best way to get tested prior to Bliss cruise because um what you're able to do with I know my status is yeah, you know, you get tested right there at the pop-up location in one of the hotels.

SPEAKER_00 5:26

And they have like a Bliss panel, so and it's like discounted already, and then you get like 15% off of that if you use like there's a code on the Bliss, like if you use the Bliss app, there's a code right there. It's better than I think it's 15% in our ours is I think 10. So it's even more than like our code. So it's a really good deal. It ends up being really affordable. Can if you're gonna pay out of pocket at least for an S T D test.

SPEAKER_02 5:53

Well, and you know, the reason I like it is because the thing they say about uh S T D tests is you know they're only as good as the the day you took them, right? That they're they're only valid for the the minute that you after the minute you walk out of the lab, that test is actually no longer valid, right? Because you don't know who people engaged with. So when you take it literally as you're getting on the ship, it's as best of a test as you could possibly have. So when you, you know, when you when you're able to show partners or potential partners on the cruise that, yeah, I got tested with I Know My Status yesterday before I get on the ship, um, it's about as reassuring as you can be that that person's being safe.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

And I will say, shout out to all of y'all who have listened, or you know, I don't know if it I'm not taking all the credit, but I think I know my status and bliss have done a great job of working together. But shout out to everybody that went this year because last year, like in November we went, there was not very many people in there. It was kind of a last minute decision to sort of do it, do it and get it out. And when we went this time, there was so many people. They were running out of supplies. They had to send someone to get extra supplies so they could fit in.

SPEAKER_02 6:57

They were running out of the swabs and stuff, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:00

Yeah, so that like just warmed our hearts. You know, I like to take a little bit, a little tiny piece of that credit, you know, and hopefully y'all have heard us and you're doing that. So that's awesome. Again, they have locations in Miami, they have locations in Orlando and Vegas. They also have, if you want to do it in your town, you can go to like draw facilities and have it done, which is what we do in our town if we're home. But if we can get it done at one of their locations, it's ideal for us.

SPEAKER_03 7:30

Agreed.

SPEAKER_00 7:30

Yeah. So we got there. Um, Daphne and Mike were on this cruise and they had beat us there because they flew, because you know, they're smart. And they had gotten there like an hour or two before us. So they had actually already gotten their test done, but they went ahead and met us up there and were with us when we did our test. And after that, we went to check in and our room wasn't ready. So um everybody was starving. So we the cool thing about that, it we stay at the embassy at the Fort Lauderdale, and um, it's right in the middle of everything. So there is like literally everything in walking distance. So we just walked next door and had carabas and waited an hour or so till we could check in.

SPEAKER_02 8:12

Yeah, I like Carabas.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

Yeah, it's a good, we don't go there at home.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

We like the bread and the oil.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Yeah, we don't usually go there at home. So we that's I think we ate there last time too. So after um we got back, we got checked in. We usually share a room with Daphne and Mike because it's literally we're sleeping in the room. It's we're not even there for 24 hours. And um, so they headed up to get in the room, get settled, and we went to the topless travel like staff meeting. Staff, even though we're not really we're not staff, we're like an affiliate for them. But it's it's we actually always go to that meeting. We're happy they include us. We kind of get to know a little the insight, what's going on.

SPEAKER_02 8:55

Yeah, it's kind of a good like planning for the crew. So if there's anything weird going on, they kind of talk about the plan. And so it it helps us stay informed on on you know, and we've gotten to know all these people.

SPEAKER_00 9:07

You know, it's like Party Mark and My Frisky Business and Um just some other familiar faces that if you've been on Bliss, you probably are used to seeing. So it's always nice to check in and and say hello. After we got done with that meeting, we headed up to the room and we just chilled for a little while. Nothing nothing real special. And then we got ready. Uh, the topless party started at like 8 30. I think we went at 9 30. So if you've never been on a bliss cruise, let me kind of give you this rundown real quick. There is a lot of pre-parties before you get on the ship. You can go to all of them. You can go to one, you can go to two, you can go to none. It's everybody kind of does their thing. We don't ever really play after them. We know we're about to get on a ship and it's about to be wild for a week, you know.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

Not to say that it couldn't happen.

SPEAKER_00 10:03

Yeah, it just hasn't, we just never really pursued anything.

SPEAKER_02 10:06

There's no playrooms, and I think we uh you we know we gotta get up early and get on the ship. So we we really don't go hard usually.

SPEAKER_00 10:13

It's more of like a let's just go like scope it out, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

See who see who's see who's here, yeah, see what the vibe's gonna be like.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Yeah, um, and so Trapeze usually hosts one. I know like so.

SPEAKER_02 10:27

This year I think Trapeze was the official Bliss Cruise pre-party.

SPEAKER_00 10:30

Yeah, and there's usually, I think, another one, and then the topless travel has one. So we always just go to the topless one. Somebody was like, I would assume y'all were going to Trapeze, and listen, we love Trapeze, but it's really hard to just not walk downstairs and be there, you know. Like it's I I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 10:47

Especially in this case, because you're getting ready to get on the cruise. Yeah, the fact that you can stay in a hotel, walk downstairs, have a little party, meet and greet, and then just walk up back up to your room as opposed to try to Ubering to Trapeze and You gotta bring them back.

SPEAKER_00 11:04

No, if we went to Trapeze, I could totally see us playing.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Yeah, more likely because they have playrooms.

SPEAKER_00 11:09

Yeah. And I'm also listening I would actually be open to do it. You know, like honestly, this weekend would have probably been like a good weekend because Sunday night was the pre the meet and greet. Like we could have gone down early and stayed like it went Saturday night at trap. That would have been like a good, you know, the way the cruise failed, but they don't always fall like that. So anyway, we got ready and we went to the meet and greet. I'm gonna be honest, the meet and greet was amazing.

SPEAKER_02 11:36

It was like yeah, the funny thing about the meet and greeting is people uh and we even I think had a few people text us and say, What's up with this music early on in the night? Um, but uh um Justin. Isn't it Justin? Yeah, Justin and Just almost said Justin time. That's what I was thinking of. But uh my first key business. Yeah, my first key business, Justin, was DJing, and he does this every year because it's a meet and greet and there's only one DJ, he basically like goes through all the genres. He like starts in the 80s, then he ends up playing some 90s, plays some 2000s, and then he usually ends with like EDM.

SPEAKER_00 12:11

Yeah, he's just trying to like play to everyone in the audience.

SPEAKER_02 12:15

He's trying to make sure everybody in the group gets the music they like.

SPEAKER_00 12:17

There's a huge age gap between the people there because you literally have 20-something year olds and you have like 80-year-olds there. So he kind of has to hit a little bit of everything. But honestly, we got down there about 9 30. I felt like the music was like great.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

But we did have some friends text us like as soon as it opened, and they're like, What's up with this music? Yeah. And we're like, just wait, just wait.

SPEAKER_00 12:38

But it was it was a great time. This cruise, they said there was 1200, I think it was at 2,500 person. People, yeah. Yeah, 1,200 of the people had never been on a bliss cruise before. And they said that, you know, y'all probably heard Russell on the podcast a few weeks ago, the average age was like 10 years younger, yeah, like in their 30s to you know, 40s. So it was definitely a younger crowd for sure.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

Yeah, no, I think as far as the meet and greet, the pre-party goes, it was one of the most high-energy meet and greets. I can remember going to bed that night and being like, this cruise is gonna be like like be ready because this is gonna be nuts. I think it's gonna be party, party, party nonstop.

SPEAKER_00 13:19

Yeah, no, I totally agree. Hold on, I'm having an issue here.

unknown 13:24

Okay, we're back.

SPEAKER_00 13:25

We're back, baby. All right, okay, so me and Greek was great. We danced. I'm gonna be okay, so I'm gonna tell y'all something because I I had a little anxiety on this ship. Now remember November. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 13:41

So, quick recap. If you don't know, the last bliss crews that me and Lacey went on, she forgot her medicine.

SPEAKER_00 13:47

My anxiety medicine. And I was pretty heavily like addiction. Dependent. Yeah, dependent. Yeah. And so it I did pretty, it was at like it ended up being like seven nights, eight days. I did pretty good into the last like maybe 36 hours. Um, and it was rough.

SPEAKER_02 14:04

So towards the end of the cruise, kind of went through this little mental breakdown, and it was a rough, it was a rough kind of end to that bliss.

SPEAKER_00 14:09

Yeah, but since then I have actively been working on it. I've gotten completely off. I never went back on the medicine once I was off. I got went to the doctor, got new medicine. Um, and really I got diagnosed with ADHD. I've been on medicine. I've really been like blossoming. Is that like a good way? I mean, I've really I really feel like a brand new, I'm a brand new bitch, y'all. Um, so I was super excited to go on on this trip. And I'm gonna be honest, I did have some anxiety. And I'm gonna tell you why I think part of it started. So when we walked into the meet and greet, you and Mike went to get Daphne and I a drink. So we just kind of went straight to the dance floor. And and I'm not telling y'all this to like this is not a bragging thing or anything like that. I want you to kind of just understand where like my headspace was. People were actively staring at me. Um, and they were like, I could see people pointing. They were like, there she is, there, there she, you know, which I love, you know, like I so appreciate, you know, that's you don't do a podcast and post as many freaking TikToks as we have, not to want that. You know, obviously that's the goal. We want people to recognize us. We want, but it was quite um jarring. Is that the correct? I mean, we we're used to a lot of attention.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

Right, and this isn't our first blisker. So it's not this isn't the first, you know, it's not our first event, it's not the first time Lazy's gone out in public. So we're used to people wrecking.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

But it was significantly different than it had been. It was almost, I it's hard for me to explain it. Um, it I'm appreciative of it, you know, and like people were a lot of people were coming up to me and talking, and I love that. I think what got me was the people that were like on the other side of the room, you know, that were like, there she is, you know, there that's our that's our that's kind of like I'm like, whoa, what that's a lot, you know, and like I felt like a lot of eyes like on me. And I don't know, maybe we I don't know if I did something to like walk in with a I don't know, but it just was it was a a lot. And I do think that that maybe is kind of that that was what kind of started a little bit of anxiety. Don't worry, guys, I get it together. It it's not a complete, it's not a complete wash. We I was fine compared to like a lot, I was fine, but there was moments of definitely like me being a little overwhelmed, and I definitely think that that is is kind of where it came from.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

Okay, if that means it's news to me. I've we've talked about no no no yeah, we talked about this, but I wish we talked about this like this when we when we talked about it.

SPEAKER_00 16:49

Yeah, well uh I was emotional. Okay, yeah, it's hard to it's hard to communicate your feelings, babe, when you're emotional. Okay, anyway. So, but yeah, the meet and greet was great. We had a good time, we got to you know, chat and dance and all the things, and at some point we I think we shut it down.

SPEAKER_02 17:07

We shut it down, yeah. We we stated and danced and clacked fans and I mean went to 12, yeah. And it we were very much in the very center of the DJ, you know, the dance floor with a DJ. It was you know, I it I thought it was great, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:19

No, it was great, yeah. So after that, we literally just went upstairs and went no, we didn't just go to bed. We weren't gonna have sex. I just remember this. And then somehow you and Mike ended up on Daphne. Do you remember that?

SPEAKER_02 17:36

No, yeah. Oh, no, but she no, yeah. I do remember what you're saying. I tried to get you, I think I tried to have sex with you when you were telling me no, and then so I tried to have sex with Daphne, and then she told me no, meaning you and then it ended up I went back to you and me and you had sex.

SPEAKER_00 17:52

So she was sucking your dick, and Mike, she had a wand.

SPEAKER_02 17:56

No, but that it didn't start that way. Me and you had sex. I actually took you out to the balcony and started fucking you, and then she got horny and her and Mike started having sex, and that's when I came back in and put my dick in her mouth. Yeah, and she was like coming, he was like, Yeah, it was started, nobody wanted to have sex, and then me and you started having sex. I ended up taking you out on the balcony and fucking you, which is and then everybody got horny and we kind of we didn't we didn't swab, but she did suck my dick a little bit, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:24

But that's our thing. We like having sex on the balcony at the embassy, we've done it, it's almost like a tradition now, yeah. So if we've ever stayed at the embassy in Fort Lauderdale, just know we might have fucked on the balcony. So that was it. Yeah, we went to bed and got up the next morning. A lot of people rush to get on the ship. We do not.

SPEAKER_02 18:46

Um, I think this is one of the smartest changes we've made.

SPEAKER_00 18:50

Yeah. I mean, I get though, like we travel a lot, you know, and I get if you don't get to do a whole lot of vacations with your kids, I mean, without your kids and stuff, and you're like, get me on the ship, get me in in a pool, I get that, you know, like a hundred percent. But we're not that way. We travel a lot. We're very fortunate that we we don't have to. So we actually woke up and it was quite cold. Um, if you don't know, that whole um storm that hit, you know, the New York, Boston area, it made what it did is make the south very, very cold, and including Florida. So we woke up that day, Monday to it was in the 60s. And then in the sun, you know, without the sun, um, it was pretty chilly. So yeah, so we uh we got on the ship probably about one, would you say?

SPEAKER_03 19:47

Yeah, ish, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

The rooms were not quite ready, which a lot of times they are when we wait like that. Um, so we went to the wind jammer and had a little lunch, and um then by the time we got done with that, the rooms were ready. And when we got to our rooms, our luggage and everything was already there.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

This yeah, which is the fastest our luggage has ever showed up. Yeah. And I don't know if it's because we were at the back of the ship, and so I don't I don't know how that happened or if it's because we showed up late for some reason they put our bags on first. I don't, I don't know, but I mean our bags beat us to our room, which that's never happened.

SPEAKER_00 20:22

No, it never happens. So uh once we got to our room, we immediately started on our swag bags. So this trip we had 30 couples, so that's 60 something individuals. So that's a lot of swag to bring on a ship. And so every couple gets a bag, every person gets a shirt, a necklace. And luckily for us, Daphne and Mike, we we can usually rope them into helping us. But Mandy and Nick, who Mandy works for us, she actually this was their vacation. They had booked this and paid for it. And I I was like, let me, can I sweet talk you into helping me for one hour? And she was like, sure. And so um she helped me. I had pretty much had the bags 75% done when they got to the room, and they helped me put the t-shirts and the necklaces in, and then we divided and conquered. So I think her and Nick took one floor, and then you and I took a couple floors each, and then we just kind of divided and we go and we drop those bags off to every door. So if you don't know, the way you can book Bliss is you can just Google Bliss Cruise, you know, and you can just book straight from their website, or you can use an affiliate, which we are an affiliate of Bliss Cruise. And so when you book through us, you don't not all affiliates do stuff. You know, some don't do anything, some do a lot, some do a little. We give every um couple a swag bag. Uh, you get to church, you get necklaces, you get a lot of fun things from our sponsors. I try to make them really nice and special for you, especially because. The cruise is a higher price point. So I try to make the bag worthy of that price point.

SPEAKER_03 22:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

So that a lot of people think they're like, oh, we think we book with y'all. If you did not go to swingerside.net and book through that, you did not. And so we we definitely run into this when it's time for the cruises, you know. We're like people think they book through us. People think that they book through us. And so um, because another perk is we you like this time we did group chats where we could tell every and we did dinners all together. Uh we do a Zoom call where we can talk about it. We don't mind you being included in that stuff if you didn't book with us. It's just kind of hard for us to find, you know, like it kind of it it not. Right.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

If you book with us, we get your name, we get your email, we get your phone number. We there's ways we can reach out to you. Yeah, we have all of your information.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

We're gonna get your shirt sizes.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

If you book with somebody else, we have no way of knowing that you're trying to be in our group. Yes, like there's no we have no indication that you're there.

SPEAKER_00 22:58

So usually somebody will say they'll reach out and be like, hey, can we add? And we'll try, we try really hard to add you after the fact and try to include you, but it is different because we don't, you're not like one of our people that is on our like manifest. Yeah. So anyway, right.

SPEAKER_02 23:14

We basically get the manifest of the people that book through us, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 23:16

So long story short, if you want to be included, please use our link. Some cruises we have, you know, this one was a big one, like the April cruise. I think we have less than 10 couples, so it'll definitely be a small, which is a perk to those people because we get to have dinners, you know, like it's it'll be a lot easier, but it'll be it'll be easier, but definitely if you if you want to be included in that, please use our link and and help us.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

Right. Uh the most difficult thing about all of this is figuring out where all these rooms are in the ship. Yeah. So once we finish the swag bags, we then go and we deliver them to people's doors and we hang them on their doorknobs. Uh, if you've ever been on a cruise ship, you might know, but finding where all these rooms are is a um it's like a maze.

SPEAKER_00 24:03

It's a maze. And I'm not super great with like directions or anything like that.

SPEAKER_02 24:08

So that would be a that should have been a blog post, is you wandering the hallways trying to find room numbers.

SPEAKER_00 24:15

I know.

SPEAKER_02 24:15

And some of the decks you can't get to the front and like the front of the ship doesn't have access to the back of the ship without like going up and over things, and and so like, but you don't know that until you're there, so it it's quite comical.

SPEAKER_00 24:27

Yeah, it's so the that's why we divide and conquer. Um so that way not everybody has a whole lot and it helps. Okay. So after we got all of those, which was a little bit had a little anxiety around because it was a lot of bags, a lot of things. I did end up in making sure that I get everything in the bags on the ship. Then I did re I did leave one couple's name necklaces at home. Um I realized that when I got there, there was no necklaces, and when I got home, they were sitting on my kitchen table. So if you did not get your name necklaces, it's because I am a human and I missed one. I made it though. Um, so okay, so after that, we wanted to head up to the sell away party. So pretty simple, the boat leaves the dock. Um, it it was chilly.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

Yeah, the first time. So let's talk a little bit about the weather.

SPEAKER_00 25:19

Yeah, so it's February, and it honestly I never really even thought twice. I just assumed it would be really good weather because we've cruised in November, we've created, you know, like in April. I just I guess I didn't think a whole lot of it. So I packed like a normal cruise. At the last minute, you threw in a hoodie, and then I threw in like a little white sweater, like a cropped sweater, which was actually brilliant because it matched everything. Um, and I had one pair of leggings to wear home. But other than that, that's really the only warm clothes, you know. Um, and it was quite chilly.

SPEAKER_02 25:57

Everything else was bathing suits and shorts.

SPEAKER_00 26:00

Yeah, and shorts and tube tops and my theme outfits. Yeah, it was it was quite chilly. Um, no fault of Bliss or Royal Caribbean or anybody. It was that storm that hit up north.

SPEAKER_02 26:12

Yeah, and I don't think this is even normal before February.

SPEAKER_00 26:16

It was 90 when we were driving down the day before.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

The day before it was in the in the low 90s, you know, mid to high eighties. I I think that's you know, southern Florida is nice year-round. Um, so I, you know, I'm not afraid of booking like another February cruise because I don't think this this weather that we experienced, I think it was just there happened to be a storm go through where this cold front dipped down and it was weird.

SPEAKER_00 26:42

Yeah. Um, but it definitely was cold. I mean, the sail away party, like we had sweaters on and nobody was in the pool. Well, one weirdo was in the like, what the fuck, dude?

SPEAKER_02 26:51

You know, like the water actually wasn't that bad.

SPEAKER_00 26:54

But like the lifeguards and stuff had like hoodies on, like zipped all the way up. Um, but it and we were like moving to get in the sun, it was quite chilly, and I honestly I felt bad for a lot of the people that had not been on Bliss before. And I'm like, I really hope that they don't take this as like the norm, the norm, because it's not like this. Um but yeah, so the party was okay. I mean, was it awesome? No, people weren't really dancing. We were freezing. We probably should have danced, but uh we've been to almost every sell away party on Bliss, and it's always a lot of fun. So I don't, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 27:34

It just the weather kind of Yeah, I think when it's you know 60 degrees and you're in the 50s or whatever, whatever temperature it was. Um, and like you said, everybody was kind of in the sun and staying. So nobody was even like near the DJ because the DJ was in the shade. Um, you know, normally at those like parties like you're saying, people are drinking and dancing, and people end up getting naked, and like there was none of that. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

So I mean, we were out there for a little while, and then at some point we went in. Um, we I think we stopped and got some pizza and then went back to the room. Uh so in true Dan fashion, he had signed me up for quite us up for quite a bit of work. It it looked like it on the calendar. Like in hindsight, it really wasn't as much as it seemed like going into it. But I guess going in, I was a little anxious because we had so many people, the most we had ever had on a cruise. And I felt like every day I had something that I had to be camera ready for. So that that was a little, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 28:39

Intimidating?

SPEAKER_00 28:40

Yeah, okay. Yeah, fair enough. And it was only a four-day cruise. I was like, and like going into the cruise, Dan was like, I was very much in the um YOLO, let's just have fun. And Dan's like, okay, we have to treat this like a hotel takeover, like kind of like secrets. Like, it's really only two nights because like the first night people are gonna be tired, and then the second and third, that's gonna be like our go nights, and then the last night they close the playrooms at midnight. So we really we have to get in our partying, like out the gate.

SPEAKER_02 29:12

Yeah, I was trying to plan. Yeah, this is that's what I plan things.

SPEAKER_00 29:15

This is what he's saying out loud to me, and I can this is what I'm hearing, and like it's feeling like a little bit like pressure. I'm not gonna lie. You know, I'm like, whoa, this is a lie, you know.

SPEAKER_02 29:25

Um well, I think it is different though, you know, and this is you know, maybe maybe I overembellished this and shouldn't have made as big a deal of it. But in my head, I'm like, man, these cruises are usually six nights or seven nights. And usually the way the cruise goes is like the first day or two, everybody's just kind of feeling each other out, and then it's kind of like everybody starts fucking and playing, and then it's like it leads up to the end where like people are trying to stay up till midnight the night before you go home because they're because they're trying to chuck off, you know, fuck all the people they wanted to fuck or do their orgy or do their gangbang or whatever the case is.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

I don't do well under this situation. Like to you, you you're making sense, you know, in your brain. But for me, it's like you gotta go, go, go, go, go. And then I'm like looking at this schedule that you've like signed me up for, and I'm like, oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_02 30:21

And it wasn't even that bad. It wasn't that bad. It wasn't, it was one or two things a day, but it looking at it on paper, it seemed like a lot of compare that to like a naughty New Orleans, it was easy.

SPEAKER_00 30:30

Correct. Yeah, I was more worried that we had so many people and that we were entertaining people and all of that. So, anyway, long story short, so on this night, Dan had us going to the uh playroom, the all couples, is it all yeah, all couple, yeah, couples or the all passenger. All passengers, yeah. It was an all-passenger playroom to do a tour. So um, so y'all get to see behind the scenes and stuff. So that meant so the tour was at seven, so which is like right in the middle of dinner. So that meant I had to be ready by seven to go do that. And then what we did was we planned a dinner at eight for everyone or whoever wanted to go. So this night's theme was pirate, and years ago we did a pirate theme at Naughty or at Naughty at Secrets, and after me and Daphne had our costumes and stuff, I was looking for TikTok sounds and I saw like some these girls do an all-pink pirate theme. And we were like, damn it, why don't we do a pink pirate? That would have been so cute. Like one day there's gonna be another theme that's pirate, and we're gonna do that. And so we um when as soon as we saw that there was a pirate night on this, we were like, we're doing pink pirates. So anyway, so I got completely ready bef before that. So now let's talk. Okay, so we chose the back of the ship. And this is why this is my lot. I actually did this. Um we were one of the first people to book when they released this one, and we knew it was gonna be a really good price point. We knew like this kind of what was really speaking to our group. So um, when I went, there was basically every cabin was open, and then the whole back row of the ship on the ninth floor was open, and the balconies looked huge, it looked very beautiful back there. And I'm like, hey, this would be different. Let's all get right here in this row, and we can all be in this, like almost have like a hotel takeover on a cruise ship, you know, sort of. And so that was what we did. And honestly, I loved our room, our balcony was beautiful, but it was very rocky back there. And people on the internet were like, You say midship, do y'all all that money and y'all are at the back of the boat? No, that that room was more expensive. It was actually a beautiful room, but it definitely was very rocky. So with the weather came the waves, and this was the rockiest cruise ship I've ever been on, ever.

SPEAKER_02 32:57

Yeah, and this was not again, it's the weather was not normal, it being cold, and then two, it being this wavy and this rocky is not normal. We were talking to Dawn, which is uh, you know, Dawn on deck. She works for Bliss Cruise, she's been doing this for like 10 years. She said this is the only the second time that she can remember that they had a Bliss Cruise where the boat was rocking this much.

SPEAKER_00 33:22

Yeah, I've never had any kind of motion sickness, anything on a cruise ship. I'm usually pretty good, and I was genuinely struggling. Literally, our doors were sliding open, like our closet door, our bathroom door, the drawers that you know, in the vanity that I had my makeup and stuff were opening and slamming. It was something. Most everybody on that ship was very sick. And at some point, I'm jumping ahead, but at some point the ship did a huge like dip, and they ended up closing the solarium playroom because the water splashed out of the pool and drenched the brood the beds. All the desserts in the buffet went flying off. Lots of liquor bottles went flying.

SPEAKER_02 34:10

Yeah, the main deck pool. So they have that the EDM party was going on on the top deck at the by the pool side, and they said the wave from the pool almost took out the DJ equipment.

SPEAKER_00 34:20

Like it was that big. I don't know where we were, but we for some reason did not quite get that wave. I saw somebody had commented in like our group chat, like, dang, that was a big wave. I don't know where we were. I think we were down in the ship, so we didn't feel it as much, but it was it was definitely a very rocky night. So that's important to know when we talk about this.

SPEAKER_02 34:42

So, okay, so I get ready, I go do the tour of the Yeah, and there's a there's a TikTok of you getting ready that I think it got like a hundred thousand views of where Lacey's getting dressed in her pirate costume, and you can see the cabinet doors opening and closing behind her.

SPEAKER_00 34:57

What's funny is you posted another TikTok of the pirate. It's like the pirate's life for me, and you can see like because it transitions, and you can see when I'm my pirate outfit, I'm struggling to stand up. If you notice, like like Dan had to put his foot on my ring light to hold it. So it wouldn't fall over. Yeah, to hold it down because it was swaying. It was very rough. Like, I don't ever want to do that again.

SPEAKER_03 35:19

Yeah, me either.

SPEAKER_00 35:20

Um, so we went to this, uh, we did the the tour. That'll be out. I don't know if it's out yet. I don't think it is.

SPEAKER_03 35:26

I don't think it is, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Um, and then after that, we went and we had a whole dinner with I think there was 20 something of us, so 12, 13 couples. It was a lot of fun. And I will say, props to Royal Caribbean, because we've done big dinners like that, and it's taken hours. Yeah. We did this twice, and every time we were in and out, like in an hour, hour and a half.

SPEAKER_02 35:50

And also props to them because the fact you're not supposed to go, I don't think, with 20-something people and be like, oh, we need a table for 20-something people. And we did that like two or three times, and every time they were super nice and accommodated us, even though you could tell like they were a little annoyed maybe with us.

SPEAKER_00 36:08

Well, we didn't get all at one table, we were at a couple of tables near each other. We were fine with it.

SPEAKER_02 36:12

But even that I don't think they normally do, you know.

SPEAKER_00 36:14

So yeah. Well, they were wonderful. They were it was nice because we tried to sit by different people each time and get to know different people, and so it was really even one night, me and you separated.

SPEAKER_02 36:26

Yeah, the the numbers a couple times were where one couple had to split up. So me and you split one night.

SPEAKER_00 36:31

Yeah, but yeah, so dinner was good. It's I I love eating in the dining room. That's the only time we usually eat there is at dinner. I thought the food was excellent. Um the whole trip on in the dining room. I'm not a big buffet girl, but the dining room I really, really like it.

SPEAKER_02 36:47

Agreed. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

Do you want to take a break?

SPEAKER_02 36:49

Yeah, I think now's the perfect time to take a little break and hear from the partners and sponsors of the Swing Nation podcast. And then when we get back, you'll hear what happened the first night of the Bliss Cruise. We've only made it through one. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 37:04

We'll be right back, guys.

SPEAKER_00 37:11

Dan, so when we're doing the podcast, a lot of times we'll tell the listeners we are filming our content for OnlyFans, right? So how do they find that content if they want to see like the videos that go along with the stories?

SPEAKER_02 37:29

Yeah, so that's a that's a great question. So you are correct. We do film for OnlyFans. We, you know, when we're uh going to clubs and events, we talk about sometimes, oh, we we did OnlyFans with so and so. Uh so if they're interested in that, they can go to theswing nation.info uh and they'll they'll see right there on the front page uh a link to your OnlyFans. We are running promos. We are uh and it could be anywhere from 50 to 80 percent off uh right now.

SPEAKER_03 37:56

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SPEAKER_02 37:56

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SPEAKER_00 38:18

No, I was about to say that because I think like if you go to some of these major porn sites and you type in like swinging, you're going to find some things, and it it's usually not very good, let's be real. We actually will get and we try to get as many orgies on camera as we can because a lot of people that are joining the lifestyle, they want to see us do a full swap with a couple or they want to see us engage in an orgy. And these are the same people that we will have orgies with at the swinger club. With obviously without the cameras, we just kind of recreate it, you know, at opportunities that we can film. So if you're thinking about joining the lifestyle and you're like, man, I need to know, I need to see like how they're navigating this. Our OnlyFans can be kind of educational, if you ask me.

SPEAKER_02 39:05

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SPEAKER_00 39:15

Dan, if someone is just recently joining the lifestyle and they don't really know where to begin, what do you recommend?

SPEAKER_02 39:22

Well, the lifestyle, you know, it's 2025. And people are on the internet. They are and there just so happens to be lifestyle websites that are dedicated to people connecting in the lifestyle. Yes. SDC happens to be one of our favorites. Over three million users. You can find people in your area, you can find clubs, you can find parties. All of it is right on SDC. Um, and you can get a huge discount by signing up with us.

SPEAKER_00 39:49

You can.

SPEAKER_02 39:50

So all you got to do is if you're looking for lifestyle people in your area, if you're looking for the clubs, if you're looking for the parties, go to theswing nation.info, recommended apps and products, scroll down to the SDC icon. We'll give you a free trial. Yeah. You can check them out. You can see who's in your area, you can see if it's uh if it's the app for you, uh, all completely risk-free. Yes. So just head on over to theswing nation.info and get signed up for SDC today. Lacey, people are always asking, how do we get to a party or an event that you guys are hosting? Like how do we find these things? Where did they exist?

SPEAKER_00 40:23

Yeah, because we're pretty open about where we're gonna be. So if you want to find these places, you need to check out swingers.net.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

Right. So you can go to swingersight.net, sign up for a profile. Most of our friends, most of the people that are attend our events, all are on there and have profiles. So you can message them, link up with them before party, get to know some people. Uh, please become a diamond member. Okay. So this is the way that we keep are able to throw events. There, it's a way we're able to have staff. Uh, really, it's the the community that keeps those memberships on swingersciety.net that really keep this whole thing running.

SPEAKER_03 40:58

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 40:58

Um, if you're a diamond member, it gets you early access to tickets. Uh so you can get those VIP tickets in the clubs and you know, those preferred rooms at a place like Secrets. Um, our diamond members usually grab all that up. So if that's something that you're interested in, you definitely want to become a diamond member, or if you just want to support us, support what we're doing, uh, and help us pay our staff, please go sign up and be a diamond member. Yes. It's super helpful for us. Uh, and you can do that by going to swingersociety.net. Correct. Uh, and sign up today. Hopefully, you come become part of our community, and we hope to see you at a future event. Yeah. Thanks, guys.

SPEAKER_00 41:40

Okay, so after dinner, it was like, okay, let's go find the party. And this is kind of where we realized that, like uh. Yeah, like in this, we we struggled this cruise.

SPEAKER_02 41:54

We're finding the party or even getting a party going.

SPEAKER_00 41:56

Yeah, and and we've talked to other friends, and they I think people that have been on the list agreed, but I've also somebody did like a review on Reddit that and they freaking loved it, you know, like and not that we didn't love it, we just personally struggled a little bit this whole whole trip, and you'll kind of hear I think it was a series of misfortunate events.

SPEAKER_02 42:17

Yes, yeah. So the the problem on this first night, and uh, in I think we were going into this ready to go, right? So we're you know, we had a great uh Bliss Cruise pre-party where the vibes were awesome.

SPEAKER_00 42:27

We got young people, young people, hot people.

SPEAKER_02 42:31

We got 30 something couples on this cruise. It's gonna be wild and crazy, orgies every night. Like this is the mentality we're going into this, all right? So now we get on the ship. The first part is it's cold. Yeah, so now we're freezing our ass off. So it's hard to like party and vibe and drink when you're just cold, right? And miserable. Yeah. So we spend all day like that. All right. So now we get into the night portion. Well, now the wind has picked up and the whole ship is rocking, and we all basically feel seasick, right? So it's hard to get in the party mode when you're trying like not to puke. Yeah. It's kind of how we felt this day, right?

SPEAKER_00 43:04

And honestly, most of the ship was pretty seasick.

SPEAKER_02 43:07

I mean, like, even like the most seasoned cruisers like ourselves, we're like, uh, everybody's taking dramamine, which if you don't, you know, dramamine makes you really tired. People are putting patches on and bracelets on. So anyway, but we we get dressed, we go do our tour video, and we're like, all right, we're gonna go find the, we're gonna make the best of the situation.

SPEAKER_00 43:25

Well, the EDM party was outside.

SPEAKER_02 43:27

Right. So the EDM party on this night was on the top deck of Bliss Cruise. It is at best 50 degrees outside.

SPEAKER_00 43:35

Which honestly, that would have been and it was later in the week, it gets warm. That that's ideal.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

That would have been where the party was was awesome. I also shout out to Bliss Cruise. You know, last if you listen to last Bliss Cruise we talked about, we kind of we tore them a little part a bit apart because there were some production issues where speakers were cutting in and out and LED walls weren't working. Well, they went out and hired a new production crew, and my understanding is it's the same. People that work on the groove cruise, which is the big EDM cruise. The production on this cruise was amazing. Amazing. You know, because we do production, we have a little insight into how much things cost. The setup on the pool deck just itself, yeah. Was amazing. I mean, I don't how much it costs, I don't know, but you know, over a half a million dollars in equipment easy was on that pool deck uh in sound and lights and probably more than that. Um so very, very professional setup. And the lights were awesome, they had fog, everything looked amazing. It was just 50 degrees outside, and the ship was rocking and the pool was splashing, and so nobody there was like 20 people out there, which good on them.

SPEAKER_00 44:40

Like well, so originally we went to like the Viking Lounge, and honestly, the music wasn't our it ended up being better because it was like more sing-along songs, but originally, and we love the DJ, uh, he's a great DJ, and even some people they're like, Why don't they play to the crowd? And I'm like, But that's the thing about Bliss Cruz is they want to have music for everyone, so they specifically have like a piano bar, they have an EDM, they have a country, they have top hits, they have all of these different things and they set it on the schedule, like it says this this venue at this time is this music. So you go find the music right that works for you, and so they can't just like up and change it because the weather is bad, you know what I mean? Like they have to kind of and I get that, and I thought that again we ended up dancing a decent amount, but I'm be honest, I was very the it was too hot inside and too cold outside, and I had that pirate outfit on. And if you look at the videos, I have fishnets and things on my head and a hat that has stuff sticking in the air, and then I have a corset and a shirt and a skirt and a boot. It was I was overstimulated, it was hot, I was a little nauseous, and at some point I was just like, I gotta get out of this room, you know. So we we ended up leaving and I needed some air, and then we had we kind of had a little bit of a fall apart moment. We we won't go into too much detail, but just know we had like a marriage, you know, like that was when my anxiety was probably at like, you know, I'm thinking we've done we've been talking about this cruise for like months and like lead up, and we've got all these people here, and it's cold and the boat's rocking, and my outfit's touching me in weird places, and I'm nauseous, you know, it's just a lot, a lot going on.

SPEAKER_02 46:28

Um, but we we pulled it back together and we went, we do we so mean you just kind of abruptly left because you had like a little a little panic attack.

SPEAKER_00 46:37

Yeah, I mean, I don't know if I'd call it more of like I was very overstimulated. I just needed to breathe some fresh air and like and adjust my outfit and you know, but we we pretty quickly recovered and then we went to we were like, let's try the EDM let's upstairs. So we that's when we went outside, and honestly, at first it felt really nice because it was so hot inside, but after like 10 minutes or so, it was cool, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 47:03

And so we and it seemed like at that point, because we you started like texting for people, and this is maybe another shout out. Um, Bliss Cruise, the Bliss Cruise app. Yeah, so it had just got launched on the last cruise ship, and there was no in April of last year. Oh, really? Okay, so I don't know. For some reason, it didn't seem like we used it nearly as much on the last cruise.

SPEAKER_00 47:23

It's definitely it's improved every time. Yeah, I personally felt like the app did a very good job compared to what it had been. I have seen some negative reviews on the apps. A lot of people said they couldn't get it to open, they couldn't get it to send, it was supposed to work, like they didn't buy the internet package and they had trouble with it. We had the internet package, we didn't have whole, we had some trouble, but it was nice for us because we made, we were able to make group chats. So we were able to send a group, you know, like, hey, we're going here, hey, we're going, you know, or people could be like, hey, where's everybody out? And I definitely think that was helpful.

SPEAKER_02 47:59

Yeah. I th I I was gonna say, I think this cruise, the the Bliss Cruise app by far made it the easiest we've ever had on a cruise ship to coordinate with our group. A hundred percent. Because of those group chats, we were able to send out, yeah, we're doing dinner at this time. And so at this time, anyway, I bring that up because at this time you had said, Hey, we're gonna check out the EDM party. Yeah, and then you're like, Oh, hey, it's cold out here. I think we're gonna get we're gonna go to the playroom.

SPEAKER_03 48:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:23

And it was cricket. So I I think what happened is everybody else had gone to bed.

SPEAKER_00 48:27

Yeah, a lot of people went to bed. I mean, like, even most throughout the week we talked to people and a lot of people snuggled, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 48:34

Of the seasickness, because of the boat rocking. I think most people had pieced out.

SPEAKER_00 48:39

Yeah. So we decided to go to the playroom. Um, the solarium was closed because it had been drenched with water. Um, but the all-passenger playroom that we had toured, yeah, it was open. So we thought we would go and it would be like no one in there. We got there and it was actually really packed. We had to wait a couple, it didn't take long, but we had to wait a few minutes uh for a bed. Well, we got one, and uh me and you had some freaking amazing sex. We were actually just talking about that yesterday.

SPEAKER_02 49:06

I was like, man, when you fucked me in that playroom that Lacey's brought up this me and her fucking at this time like three or four times since then.

SPEAKER_00 49:14

I just sort of let you take control, and you just did you put me in all the positions. I brought my wand.

SPEAKER_02 49:20

Well, and we left it open so everybody was watching, and you'd be a dirty slut and get fucked.

SPEAKER_00 49:25

And but you like fucked the shit out of me. I brought my wand. I mean, the wand rolled off the bed underneath it. That's how bad those ship was rocking.

SPEAKER_02 49:33

Well, the funny thing about that, so me and you fucked it, you know, pretty good. I actually think you ended up making me come um before we went to bed. Uh yeah, we I came, yeah. Anyway, but later on in the cruise, somebody said they were watching us at this play session and they saw. So if you know, Lacey's pretty flexible. Um, and so I do this thing where I like fold up her legs against her chest basically.

SPEAKER_00 49:55

Kind of like a basketball sort of thing.

SPEAKER_02 49:56

All right, so she's almost sitting like cross-legged, but then I push her legs up against her chest while I fuck her. And somebody later in the cruise was like, Oh, yeah, we saw you guys fucking in that. Well, you did that to Lacey, and we tried it. We really liked that.

SPEAKER_00 50:09

I'm so glad we could inspire.

SPEAKER_02 50:11

Which is funny that somebody was watching us and then went and tried to do one of the positions we did later on.

SPEAKER_00 50:15

No, but it was good. It was honestly some of the best sex the whole week. Um, I'm even thinking about it a week later. So you did very good. Um, and you know, after that, snacks in bed. That's kind of you know, what's another thing is I realized um if you don't know, uh on the cruise, Party Mark does cookies and milk every night. We made it before him every single like usually we're in there the same time, yeah. About the same time, which is 2 a.m. Yeah, and we we were we had snacks and left before Mark got in there any night.

SPEAKER_02 50:49

We're getting old, baby.

SPEAKER_00 50:50

I know, but yeah, something's happening. That's a definitely a change for us. That's it's kind of like our our our night. We end it with Mark and the in the wind jammer having snacks. So yeah, so I mean that's that's pretty much our first full day. I cannot believe it.

SPEAKER_02 51:06

Like a whole episode?

SPEAKER_00 51:08

I mean, we're 45 minutes in. Do you want to keep going? What do you want to do?

SPEAKER_02 51:11

Maybe we can get through to like at least to right before the party or something this night. So let's talk about what happened during it.

SPEAKER_00 51:16

Okay, so um Tuesday morning, Dan had scheduled us. First of all, the ship we woke up in the Bahamas, which is awesome.

SPEAKER_02 51:25

Ship wasn't rocking as much.

SPEAKER_00 51:26

No, it was parked, babe. Um, it couldn't rock.

SPEAKER_02 51:29

Yeah, right. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:31

Um, but we got up and we were um we were gonna do a tour of Russell and Vicky. Russell was on the podcast a few weeks ago, their state room.

SPEAKER_02 51:41

They had a like a fancy uh So prior to the Bliss cruise, we had reached out to the Bliss Cruise staff, uh, Dawn specifically, and said, Hey, you know, we'd like to do some stuff on this cruise ship. And she was like, Oh yeah, like tell us what you guys want to do. So we're I had just given her a bunch of ideas of different things we can do. And one of the ideas was I'd like to get on film because when we do this cruise, me and Lacey always do like a little tour video of our room, right? Where we just walk you around our room.

SPEAKER_00 52:06

We all pretty much always have the same class.

SPEAKER_02 52:08

Basically, always the same. It was a little different this time because of it, it's a back deck balcony, but it's usually the same class of room. And so I told them, I'm like, well, if we could get some of the different rooms, you know, people always like those tour videos of the rooms. If we could get a couple different, you know, room types, that would be cool. And so they had invited us to come show their room, which was, I think, an executive suite on board, so one of the nicer suites uh on board. So that's what we went and did this morning.

SPEAKER_00 52:36

Yeah, so we had to be there at 10, which is still pretty early for us, especially after being out, you know. All night, yeah. Well, not all night, but it was after midnight. So um we got up, we went and did that. Um, it was still really cold. We realized that, and we had kind of known that going in because people, you know, we had all been watching the weather, and several people were like, especially in the 60s in the Bahamas, and that's pretty darn cold for the Bahamas. Um, but we were hoping that like the sun would perk up and that, you know, like maybe in the sun it'd be in the 70s. Um, but we did. We got up and did the tour, and um, you know, we weren't really outside, but we were on their patio in ours, and it was definitely you could definitely tell it was chilly.

SPEAKER_03 53:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:18

Um, we came back to the room and uh we had quite a disagreement. I wanted to go ahead and get off the ship uh because we had booked an excursion. It was the Royal Beach Club, which is brand new.

SPEAKER_02 53:34

They just opened it last month, and it's it's this is now so the ship we stopped in the Bahamas, but uh it's the NASA.

SPEAKER_00 53:40

Yeah, so it's an it's a Royal Caribbean um excursion and you pay for it and you can get it with or without alcohol. And I mean it was still like a hundred, I think it was$180. We got it with alcohol, and you basically get to spend the whole day there. And we knew we weren't gonna spend the whole day. Uh we actually I had to be completely ready by like five. So um we knew that we would have to get back on the ship and I had to be like ready for the evening by five. So I was thinking in my mind, we could get off the ship, you know, around 11. Get back on the ship around two, you know. And and then that gives me like, you know, and 30 minutes, an hour to relax, and then, you know, be ready by five. Then we were not communicating clearly. You thought we should go between like one and three because that's the warmest part of the day, which the difference was only two degrees, you know, but it was really worth that argument. And it was really worth, you know, waiting. Um, so so we definitely bumped heads and we had a um a little baby meltdown in the room over that.

SPEAKER_02 54:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 54:51

Um, but we we remied it.

SPEAKER_02 54:53

You forgot where you scheduled your I wasn't gonna mention it. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_00 54:56

Oh, but I guess I'll tell you.

SPEAKER_02 54:57

That's what started it though.

SPEAKER_00 54:58

So I it's har it's hard for me to wash my hair on a cruise ship. And I it I guess when I the last few trips, I'm like, you know what I should do? I should go and get a blowout in the middle of the week, let them do it. It it takes them probably an hour for them to wash and completely dry my hair. And then my hair is pretty, and I don't have because in those rooms you're sweating. I'm like dying of a heat stroke. It's just I have a lot of hair to and then I'm usually rushed. And it's normally when I dry my hair, I let it air dry for like two hours before, and I just don't have time in these situations. So after the last cruise, I was like, okay, I'm gonna do it this time. So I looked at the schedule and I was like, after the beach day, that would be perfect, you know, because then I have the next day we have glow and we're outside and it's I'm usually sweat. I don't want to have freshly clean hair when I'm outside and fresh, so I'll do it after. So in my mind, it made sense to do it on day two.

SPEAKER_02 55:51

Okay. So I went after so that's what what started the disagreement was Lacey went and I hadn't done, and maybe this is part of the miscommunication. I hadn't done the math on like when we had to get off the ship and back on the ship and all that to be at the whatever. I don't even remember what we had at five o'clock, but it was something we had to be travel party. Right. It was something we had to be to at five o'clock. So I hadn't done much of the math on when we had to be off and on. I was just thinking, okay, it's cold outside if we're gonna go to this beach party going during the you were thinking very logical.

SPEAKER_00 56:22

Yeah, you were thinking very logical.

SPEAKER_02 56:24

So then Lacey goes and schedules this thing and she comes back and she's like, Well, okay, hold on.

SPEAKER_00 56:27

I tried to schedule it for three because they said it'd take an hour, so from three to four, and then that means I'd come back and between four and five, I would put my makeup on, put my outfit on, and then I'd be ready to go at five. So when I got there, they said we can do 245. That's all we have. And I was like, okay, that's only 15 minutes. That's fine. And keep in mind it's 10 15 a.m. and I am completely ready to get off the ship at this point. So I go back to the room, and Dan's like, 2 45? There goes our whole beach day. And I was like, but we're ready. We could just go and get off the ship now. And like, in my mind, we were coming back to the ship around 2, 2:30 anyway. So like 2 45 wasn't far off.

SPEAKER_02 57:07

In my mind, we're coming back at like four. So that's what why it screwed me up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 57:10

Yeah. But there was no way I could get come back at four and be completely ready for the evening by five. That's just that's not how girl stuff works. Okay. So anyway, so we had a slight disagreement. I sat on the balcony freezing cold for like 30 minutes to prove that I was mad at him.

SPEAKER_02 57:28

But after a little bit in my head, I'm like, we just spent all this money on this beach thing, and now you went and scheduled a hair thing, and now we have to like half our day is cut short. That's what was in my mind. Now, whether all that math, you can explain all the math on what time you would have had to be back to be at the thing, and but I wasn't thinking all that.

SPEAKER_00 57:43

I was just thinking we were still back on the ship like before three. So I mean, like, it was all for nothing. And honestly, y'all. So then I got mad at him. I canceled the appointment. I canceled the appointment. Um, and then uh we had a disagreement, probably like an hour, you know, it was probably an hour of derailment. And then we got, you know, we finally just looked at each other and I'm like, okay, we're getting, let's just get off the fucking ship. So we did. So you and I um got off the ship. And actually, once we got outside, I was like, it's not that bad. You know, like because the way you get to the um, it's like an island, so they take you by by vote. And it was actually, we sat in the sun, it was really nice. And then we got over there, we had lunch. The lunch was okay, you know, it wasn't my favorite, but it was it was something different than on the ship. We had free drinks, so we didn't get the alcohol package, so we we made sure we got our money's worth in our drinks. Yeah, we found our friends, and honestly, we I love that excursion. It was if it was 10 degrees warmer, it would have been so beautiful. I wore my swimsuit. I did there is some bikini pictures that I don't think have been posted yet. We did we we took some pictures, we danced, um was it ideal? No, we got to see a famous TikToker there.

SPEAKER_02 58:59

Yeah, there is some, so I wanted to kind of mention that. So one, I think I like you said, I love that excursion. Actually, probably one of my, even though it was cold, like the potential of it is probably like that. Was one of my favorite stops that we've ever done on a cruise ship. And if we ever are in Nassau on Royal Caribbean again, I would a hundred percent do that beach party again. I actually hope Bliss Cruz does that stop again and does a beach party there because I think it's so cool. Um, but yeah, it definitely was it being we couldn't get in the pool, nobody did it, we couldn't really swim. Uh even outside of the pool, it was okay when the sun was out, but it was kind of cloudy, so like a cloud would come and then it would be cold, and then the sun would come back out and it'd be kind of almost warm and then it would be cold again. So I mean it threw off the whole day, but there definitely is was a lot of potential in that stop. But yeah, there was some famous TikTok girl, a couple million followers who was there at the same time we were.

SPEAKER_03 59:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:56

And you actually made and I also wanted to point out there's a couple videos where you guys are dancing and you can see people in the background. I did want to point out that those people in the background are not swingers. There were six cruise ships in port that day, and it was this this this beach party was a public beach party. Yeah, it was a public party. So but in the in the where not only are the people behind you not swingers, but they were not any of the people in our group. So they were 100% not swingers.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:19

And I I vlogged it and I said, you know, I can film here because this is a public place. And to be honest, there was swingers like hanging around us, and I did not film them. I only filmed the people that I knew. You film the vanillas, yeah, and and the public people. Um, but uh yeah, it it was I loved that. I want to go back there so we can do that again. It was like secrets, but brand new. Yeah. Kind of like the DJs, they had dancers, such a cool spot, yeah. It was, and honestly, the vanilla people were wilder than we were. Those TikTokers. They were twerking, they had thongs on, they were water. They were in the water. They had, you know, what's funny is I fought, I gotta follow that, I gotta find that girl. Um uh, I followed that girl that she had like two million followers. Her, they came back to the US and her husband or boyfriend, I don't know who she who it was, broke his ankle and she was like, That's why you don't get drunk and dance in the water.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:13

Oh on royal and like he broke his ankle that day, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:15

I guess, or or fractured or twisted. I don't know exactly the extent of his injuries, but he was in a hospital. Um, so we were definitely the calm ones of of the thing, and like and we were the swingers, so you know, it's not always the swingers, the vanilla people are wild and crazy too. But it was fun, it was a good stuff.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:33

I'll actually the boat ride from the ship to the island was my favorite part.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:36

Yeah, it was nice.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:37

Oh but yeah, good experience.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:39

So, yeah, that I mean that was it. We hung out there, like I said, told you you know, two something, but I think we left it like two something, and it took us a little bit because we would take the sh the boat back, and then they kind of have you walk through like the downtown area of the Bahamas, you know, trying to sell you stuff before you back in the boat. Um and then um and then we got back on the boat and and then we went and I got ready. And then so the reason we had to get completely ready is the Topless Travel Um party. It's like a if you book with Topless, which we are sub-affiliate of Topless, you get to go to their party. And uh usually on night one, but because of the way it was a shorter cruise and the way everything fell, it was on night two. And with all you know, my crazy schedule that Dan had laid out for me, there was no other time in the evening to get ready. So basically I had to come back, get completely ready, and and then I just put like something casual on until the night portion. But yeah, that's what we did. So I I ended up um not washing my hair for the record.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:43

Okay. Well, I think that's the perfect place to take a break. So when we pick it back up next week, we'll pick it up at the topless travel meet and greet on board. Um but stay tuned.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:55

Yeah, it gets the weather gets better, um, things get hotter. It it turns out to be a really fun trip. Uh spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Um, I will say though, if you're listening to this and you're like, I want to go on a blister cruise, I know we just told you how cold it was, but it's never this way. Um, but if you're like, I want to do that, there actually is still rooms available in April, which is very unusual.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:18

And we only have five couples going with us. Yeah. So if you So we can give you extra attention. Yes. Not that we're not that was not they came off the wrong way.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:26

That was not a proposition.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:27

We mean we'll have now if we vibe, I mean, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:30

But I mean we'll have dinner with you. You know, we'll have dinner, we'll we'll we'll dance, stuff like that. Yeah, that's what he means by means by that. Um, but uh so yeah, if that if that's something that you're it's gonna sell out, it's just a matter of like time, man. Time. So if you're like if you're a last minute type of person and you are hearing this and you're like, I want to go, you definitely check out swingyorcity.net. There's not many rooms, but there are some.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:54

For April 2026.

SPEAKER_00 1:03:55

Yeah. And if you're like, that's too close, there is November still has rooms, and then obviously all of next year is still available.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:02

Yeah, so I will say for April and November, um the inventory for those rooms are getting short and they're expected to sell out probably in the next 30 days or less. So if you're hearing this and you're thinking, I want to go on a Bliss cruise in 2026, basically, if you don't book that Bliss cruise here in the next couple weeks, there's a chance that you won't be able to go on a Bliss cruise until 2027. Yeah. Right. So this is probably your last opportunity in the next couple weeks to go ahead and put a down payment and reserve a room for a Bliss cruise in 2026. Otherwise, you will be waiting until 2027 to go on a cruise.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:41

Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:43

All right, and but we would love to do, I mean, April's gonna be great. It's they're calling it the beach party because both stops have beach parties with the playrooms.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:51

Which honestly, I love that because that's one thing I don't like about cruises. I'm a beach girl. Like if I'm gonna be in the warm, I don't want to be at a pool. I want to be at the beach, so I'm actually very excited.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:01

Yeah, and one thing about the bliskers that I in in the past that I didn't love is like the beach days kind of felt like they were not ruined, but they weren't they weren't spicy. They were vanilla, they were a vanilla day, right? Yeah, and so I kinda didn't really love that. So the fact that now that on this April cruise they're doing two beach parties and they're both non-vanilla, like clothing optional, playroom type with beach parties. To me, that's like the perfect that fits. I'm very excited. Perfectly, yeah. And it like gives you something to do. Like, because before it was like, what do I really do I go ziplining? Do I go, yeah, you know, do I go just go out to eat? Like, what what touristy thing do I do on a be on a on a port day? Well, now it's like no, you do the you're going to the blister. We're just taking it off, we're taking it to land. Taking this energy to land, yeah. Which I'm excited to see how that goes. But uh, and then the November cruise is going to be the largest swinger party on earth. We're trying to organize the largest orgy on earth. Um, so the Dan is not. So you don't want to miss that. I don't know why you would want to miss it. That so, um, definitely put that one on your and again go book it now, or you'll be waiting to 2027.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:06

Yeah, all right.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:07

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