Ep. 11: Bliss Cruise Feels Like Adult Summer Camp On A Ship

We break down why Bliss Cruise remains our favorite couples-only, adult-only lifestyle vacation after seven sailings, including what makes the vibe feel both sexy and genuinely classy. We share what you’ll find onboard, why the shorter February Sampler brought in so many first-timers, and the practical tips that make the whole experience easier. 

• Couples-only adult-only lifestyle ship charter basics 
• What happens onboard including pool parties workshops vendors and meet and greets 
• Play spaces on different parts of the ship including dungeons and outdoor play areas 
• How the Bliss Cruise app helps you plan and connect on ship Wi‑Fi 
• Who shows up across the lifestyle spectrum plus curious guests 
• Where sailings depart and how each cruise now has its own identity and theme 
• Why we keep coming back including the community and the no public sex rules 
• Our favorite party and play memories including glow night and outdoor reconnecting 
• Booking BlissCruise.com and how our affiliate link supports the show 
• First-timer tips including theme nights speed dating playrooms door decor magnets and extension cords 
• Mailbag on why the 4-night Sampler was less intimidating and drew 60% new guests 

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Transcript

Adult Content Advisory

SPEAKER_03 0:00

This podcast is intended for adult audiences over the age of 18. The podcast includes adult language, situations, sexually explicit material. Listeners, please be advised.

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Welcome to Next Door Splane, a podcast about lifestyle travel and events, hosted by Veteran Lifestyle Couple, Cora and Max. In each episode, we hope to entertain, educate, and provide information based on our own personal experiences. The views, thoughts, and ideas expressed are solely our own and not to be taken as professional advice. All right, well, welcome to this episode. Today we are talking all about Bliss Cruise, one of our favorite lifestyle events.

SPEAKER_03 0:42

I don't know if it's one of or the favorite. Because we have done seven of them now.

SPEAKER_01 0:47

We have done seven. We just got back from the February 2026 sailing, which was actually the first February sailing.

SPEAKER_03 0:54

And it was called the Sampler because it was exactly that. It gave you a little great little sample of everything that Bliss has to offer.

SPEAKER_01 1:00

It was just four nights, and that's what we are talking about today. Before we talk about that, let's talk about what is going on in our world right now. Uh, we just got back from Bliss.

SPEAKER_03 1:10

And we are extremely excited because we are really inching close to getting on the road with the shit show that we call our shenanigans, and we're bringing it to a neighborhood near you. And as you can see, we are filming this episode from our little land yacht uh right here in our living room. And uh we can't can't wait to come to a spot near you guys. So, we ready to get into this?

SPEAKER_01 1:32

Very good, and here we go. When we come back, more about bliss.

What Bliss Cruise Really Is

SPEAKER_03 1:38

All right, we're back, and we're ready to talk to you guys about Bliss and why we think it is the most amazing, classy, sexy, hot cruise ever.

SPEAKER_01 1:49

That's right, that's right. All right, the first question is what is Bliss Cruise? The what?

SPEAKER_03 1:54

What is it all about?

SPEAKER_01 1:55

The main thing of Bliss Cruise. Bliss Cruise is a couples-only, adult-only lifestyle cruise.

SPEAKER_03 2:02

Let's emphasize that one second. No kids, no kids, zero kids, zero kids, amazing adult lifestyle cruise.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

It is basically a takeover of a ship. Uh, the whole whole cruise is lifestyle. It is all Bliss. Uh, Bliss has their own security team, their own um employees that work on it and basically take it over and make it a full available.

SPEAKER_03 2:26

It's a complete charter, so the Bliss company takes over the ship.

SPEAKER_01 2:29

Yes. On the first one actually happened in November tw uh 2015. So Bliss is in its 11th year. Because they have done over 20 cruises, they have it down.

SPEAKER_03 2:42

They've got it down.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

They have it down.

SPEAKER_03 2:44

And this one, we actually were invited to come on board and work for Bliss. Yes, so we had the we had a little bit of behind the scenes, and I tell you, it was an amazing, such a great group of professionals. We met the owner uh last year when we were on our April cruise last year with Bliss. We met the owner and he was like, You got to come on board. Yes, and I tell you, I'm extremely excited for Bliss because he has taken it to a whole nother level and it and continues to uh just expound and make it better each time.

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Yeah, taking what was amazing already and just continuing to elevate it.

SPEAKER_03 3:16

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 3:16

Bliss has had uh such a great track record.

Onboard Events And Bliss App

SPEAKER_03 3:19

And another part of the you know, what is that it has you know on board you'll find clothing optional poolside parties all day long. You'll also find my favorite phone parties. Uh, I love a good phone party, and they will also have classes, workshops throughout the day. You'll find that in the conference room areas or throughout the ship. And the greatest thing is they now have an amazing app. And I tell you, this is one of the things that I was excited about with the new ownership. That within 30 days of embodying the company, they um brought on board a new app. It's called Bliss Cruise. You can find on the App Store. But on that app, you'll find the entire compass, everything going on. But um, the best part is though, there's a chat feature where you can actually reach out and talk to uh other sexy cruisers that are on board the ship. But back to what is on board and what is uh Bliss. Uh, there's dungeons on board, there's playrooms on board, and probably the most important part, there's anywhere between 3,000 and 6,000 sexy swingers, just like you guys.

SPEAKER_01 4:15

That's right. The play spaces are quite amazing.

SPEAKER_03 4:18

Oh, they're great.

SPEAKER_01 4:19

Quite amazing. A lot of work and dedication time goes into creating excellent play spaces. The play spaces are in a variety of parts of the cruise ship to include the solarium, conference rooms, also there's a dungeon. There is also uh playrooms under the stars. And so on the top deck of the ship, uh, the play those playrooms are open daytime and nighttime. Um, there are also specific style of playrooms. So there might be times that playrooms are available only for girl-girl play, only for by play, only for couples. So um, they have different styles of playrooms. One of our favorite playrooms that actually we were just introduced to recently was called the dance and play. So they take a conference room and put a dance floor in the middle of it, set up a DJ at the front, and then they have beds all the way around the conference room while people are dancing. If you get hot and heavy on the dance floor, there's a bed right there. You could just take it to the door.

SPEAKER_03 5:14

You get right there. And there's nothing better than to sit there and be playing and seeing people dancing, watching you fucking have the most amazing time of your life.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

Yeah, it's pretty hot inside. It's very sexy, very, very sexy vibe. There are also tons of um, they're pullside games like the wrestling and the different car wash. There are also events like speed dating on board in which you can meet other people and a variety of meet and greets.

SPEAKER_03 5:39

Yep. A ton of meet and greets. They have sexy silver meet and greets, they have over 45 meet and greet, they have uh soft swap meet and greets, they have full swap meet and greets, they have, oh my gosh, we can go on and on and on. And and addition to all those kind of uh events on boards, there are a bunch of different cruise um groups that are on board as well that they'll have their own meet and greets, and you can go by and see them at their own tables and stuff. Right. Of vendors. There's different vendors on board. It's it's it's really a great little community on board the ship and a good representation in the entire sexy lifestyle community that's out there.

Who Attends And Why It Works

SPEAKER_01 6:11

That's exactly right. And that leads us right to the who. Who are the people that go on Bliss cruise? Everyone. And what's what I love about it is that it is a variety of the lifestyle spectrum. It really is. You have people that are nudists and that are curious about the lifestyle all the way to polyamorous couples, uh, polyamorous groups of of individuals as well, um, that are on the cruise. So you have every style of lifestyle. We've seen 20 somethings all the way to 80 somethings. However, I would say that the average age is probably about 45. 45. If I had to put a number on it, I would say the average is about 45.

SPEAKER_03 6:50

And what is really intriguing is we're starting to see, at least in the last couple cruises, um, we've done one last April and then obviously this February one. We're starting to see a little bit of the younger crowd coming on board, which tells me that our lifestyle community is growing and it's uh just continuing on. So then we'll be doing this for a long time.

SPEAKER_01 7:08

Wait, I'm wanted to tell a little story here about a couple that we met several years ago.

SPEAKER_03 7:12

Yeah, I love it.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

We were we were standing in line waiting for something, and we're at a bar getting a drink. We turned around and I just started talking to the couple behind us. It was formal night, so I had my beautiful dress on, but the woman behind me, she um was from India and had a beautiful like sarong on, very traditional clothes. Her husband had his traditional very, very sexy clothes, very, very attractive vibe. And I, you know, we just struck up conversation, and you know, one of the first things you say is how long you've been in the lifestyle. And she said, Oh, we're not in the lifestyle. And I said, Do you know what kind of cruise this is? She says, Yes, we've been on many. We come on on this cruise because people talk to us.

SPEAKER_03 7:50

Yep. As you will find in the lifestyle, and this is covered by the Who, is that everybody in the lifestyle loves to hear your story and talk to you and they're open in communication. Right. So for this couple, it was great for them to be able to, because obviously they're a little bit different. They I mean I hate to say it, but they weren't lifestyles and they look different, but they just wanted to be around adults that were open-minded and communicated. Yeah, and they had a blast. We saw them a few times throughout the queries, and they were having a great time blasting each other, which was amazing to me, and I loved that because our community is so open and we talk to people in line.

SPEAKER_01 8:24

That's normal. Like we talk to the people sitting beside us, sometimes a little overwhelming. I know exactly for people who are not open like that. Um, so the who is all spectrums of the lifestyle, or the curious, or who wants just an adult vacation.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

You'll find a ton of nudists, and several nudists. Yeah, once you bump into them, you'll know.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

Yeah, yeah. That they they're um like I said, all all areas of lifestyle. All right, so that covers the what, that covers the who. Now let's talk about the where.

Ports Themes And Cruise Options

SPEAKER_03 8:52

The where.

SPEAKER_01 8:52

The where.

SPEAKER_03 8:53

So Bliss is uh based out of basically out of Florida. And uh the cruises all go out of to this point, out of Miami or Fort Lauderdale, general two areas. However, next year, and we're really excited about this. Next year, they're actually doing the first cruise out of Tampa. Tampa, Florida. Tampa, yeah. So uh if you people are in around Tampa, uh you'll be experiencing something a little bit different here in Bliss Cruise coming to Tampa, Florida.

SPEAKER_01 9:16

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 9:17

And it's the uh, what is it called? The Fiesta Cruise.

SPEAKER_01 9:19

Fiesta Cruise. Yeah, I've I've I've got all of the cruises out here. I wanted to tell you about all of them.

SPEAKER_03 9:24

What but I want to talk about one of the improvements though that I've seen and what Bliss has done, and I think this is great. Rather than just calling it the November Cruise or the you know April Cruise on Bliss, they've actually given every cruise an identity. Every cruise now has its own identity. Oh name so this one was called the Sampler Cruise. The one coming up in uh let's talk about them.

SPEAKER_01 9:44

So traditionally, uh Bliss has only had two cruises a year, April and November. Now they have added a February cruise that is shorter. Um, it's only four nights, and that's what we just came back from. That was that was called the Sampler Cruise. Because it was only four nights. It was a smaller ship, it was a shorter time frame. The one coming in April 2026 is the beach party, is the theme of that cruise.

SPEAKER_03 10:09

So all the theme nights, everything about the ship is going to be about beach party.

SPEAKER_01 10:14

But also on the two stops that it's making at Jamaica and Cozumel, they're doing big beach parties on the beach during the during the stops, during the port days. Um, that one will be about 3,000 people on board. It is a six night, and it goes out of Fort Lauderdale. So that one's a February 2026.

SPEAKER_03 10:33

Yep, and then they have November 2026, which is the Wonderland cruise. It's out of Miami and it's going to Aruba and Curacao, one of your favorites. Aruba's one of my favorites. The happy island, and there's a reason why they're all happy down there. Uh and then there's gonna be approximately 6,000 people on board that ship. It's one of the bigger ships, and then uh there's gonna that's gonna be a seven-night cruise, so it's a little bit longer. The November cruises always tend to be on bigger ships and they tend to be a little bit longer. Right now, I I say all that because think about the 6,000 people on a ship, and but on those bigger ships, there's almost like seven communities on board. And what I say by that is if you meet a couple on day one, you might not see them again because they're in a community on the other part of the ship that you might not ever see again. So I I say this if you're interested and you want to hook up, you better do it quick. Right. But or you can use the new Bliss app, which you can stay in contact with anybody.

SPEAKER_01 11:22

That's right. All right, and then next February, so a year from now, February 2027, uh, that is a four-night cruise out of Tampa, and it is called a Fiesta Cruise. So that's another one that's a short one. Um, it is going to Cozumel. It'll have about 3,000 uh people on board.

SPEAKER_03 11:43

And what's great about that one is it's actually going over a weekend.

SPEAKER_01 11:46

So if you're worried about it to a Sunday.

SPEAKER_03 11:49

If you're worried about what you're gonna do with the kids and you want to go on one of these sexy adult cruises, well, now you can just get the grandparents or somebody look after the kiddos for just over a weekend, essentially. It's a weekend cruise.

SPEAKER_01 11:59

Well, it's a Wednesday to a Sunday, so it goes over go over the weekend, which is fantastic. And also, whenever you were to do that, you could check all of all of the fun places in Tampa that you know we have talked about in the past. And then um, so the theme on that one is Fiesta, then the following April 2027, the theme on that one is Celestial. It is Fort Lauderdale, Dominican Republic, and um Lobidee, Haiti.

SPEAKER_02 12:24

Lobidee.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

And then the November 2027 uh theme is Saints and Sinners. It's going out of Miami.

SPEAKER_02 12:31

I think we're one of the six.

SPEAKER_01 12:33

Yeah, maybe. Maybe uh it's going out of Miami and then going to St. Martin and St. Kitts. And again, that is a seven night, six thousand, um, six thousand people on that one, so it is one of the bigger ships. Yeah, I love the bigger ships.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

I kind of like we've done we've done seven cruises. We've done April once, we've done February once, we've done five November.

SPEAKER_03 12:54

Yeah, and and I'm kind of I'm torn in between because uh I kind of like the small intimacy and meaning that you can actually find the people you're looking to find because I mean we're going on the bliss cruise for a reason, right? Right to bump into sexy people and uh meet them all. At the same time, though, it's really intriguing though to be able to see, you know, a big ship with 6,000 people on board and you know, a little bit longer. Now I will say my liver when it comes to the seven-day cruises is tapping out usually on night five or six. So um that kind of also makes me to like the uh shorter cruises as well. But I like that. It's a blast.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

On the larger cruises, I like that there is larger gathering places for more people to be. So on the larger cruise, um, they have a uh an ice skating rink and they cover the ice skating rink and make it make it a dance floor. And then everyone can be on the dance floor, but then people can be in the stands as well.

SPEAKER_03 13:49

So it's an inside inside part of the ship where they have uh almost like um arena seating around it. Yes, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:56

And so everyone can be in that space at the same time. The smaller ships, it's harder to get everyone in the same space at the same time. And then also the larger ships have like a promenade that's an area that everybody walks through. The smaller ships don't have that. It the smaller ships are a little more disconjointed, I think, because some floors don't walk all the way across.

SPEAKER_03 14:18

And that's probably important to take a minute too and talk about what you can expect on board the ship, too. So uh at that because you bring up a good point about the promenade. So typically every night there's a theme night for every night. Yes, and you will find that on what the theme is on your Bliss, you know, app, and you'll be failed to know exactly what's going on every time of the day by your Bliss app. However, what usually happens on board the ship is every night on the bigger ships, they'll have in the promenade where the party all starts. And that's what come what you're talking about, is that on the smaller ships there's no real place there's a place to do it, but it's a smaller place, and they usually try and start the party for the night, usually around eight o'clock, where they'll have one event in the middle to kind of kick off the night, and then there's different uh music going on, different parties going on throughout the ship. So they usually tend to start in one general area on the promenade of the bigger ships, though, you're talking all 6,000 people in one general area, and it is so much fun. And that promenade, yeah. Yeah, the energy perfect example. Yeah, the energy is fantastic, and then people go off and do their own little thing in the different parties.

SPEAKER_01 15:23

That's a great thing to bring up, too, is I love that there's multiple parties happening at the same time. So there might be uh karaoke going on in the piano bar, there might be country music being played in one area, there might be EDM music played in another area, and there and then a variety of different things happening, and there could be meet and greets going on at that same time too.

SPEAKER_03 15:47

And I'll tell you, no, we didn't get to experience it, but I was intrigued the entire time on this last cruise. So, right outside, uh, you remember where they had the the biking lounge where they had the big party area, the big dance club area. Well, outside of that, or and of course the whole thing is surrounded by windows, right outside of that is where they had the nighttime play area. Remember that? Oh, yeah. We never got a chance to experience it or be uh you know, uh look up there and see what's going on. One because it was a little bit chilly at night, it was a little windy, windy and chilly. Uh so it wasn't a whole lot of play going on outside. Um, but the uh that would have been really sexy fun to you know enjoy on the next one coming up.

Why Bliss Keeps Calling Them Back

SPEAKER_01 16:24

Yeah, that's a good point. Yeah, so many fun things um going on to to be a part of. So now let's get into the why. Why have we done seven bliss cruises and we'll continue to do them? Uh why is I'm gonna like for me the number one thing is the people. The people on the boat, the people that we met, the people that we continue to see over and over, and the new people that we meet, that's to me the core reason of going back.

SPEAKER_03 16:51

There is uh there's something to be said, it's almost like a summer camp for adults. Yes, is that and what's really cool is on every November cruise, we tend to see a group of the same people, and they only come on November cruise. We only talk to them during the cruise, we don't chit-chat or anything outside of and we only play with them on that cruise. And every time is simply fireworks and amazing every damn time we ever done. And but that's just that summer camp experience, so for adults is that you're busy during the week, during your job, throughout the year, and you're looking forward to this one vacation. And I will say, for my biggest reason of why is really goes back to the very first experience we had. And when we stepped on the ship the very first time, 10, 12 years ago, whenever it was, uh, we both kind of thought, oh my god, it's gonna be sex, sex, sex right in our face. But as we went out throughout the trip and went out throughout throughout the boat, we realized that this was the sexiest, classiest, hot group of people and or party ever associated with that. We are a part of, and that's why we keep coming back. Right. And what you'll find is they do not allow sex in public. Now, yes, you can be topless and you can be nude up in the pool deck area during the pool party, right? But once you leave that area, you gotta be covered up and they have their own security on board to make sure you're doing that. Uh, if you're going to eat, you better have you know covered up. Your private parts better be covered up, no butt cheeks on seats.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Well, they'll give you a tile.

SPEAKER_03 18:17

They'll give you a towel to sit on. Uh but they are it's classy, sexy hot. And Bliss has their own crew on board to make sure everything's being taken care of, and they do a phenomenal job. And shout out to the entire Blue's crews team. You guys are phenomenal. You guys got it on point, and you keep bringing back the uh sexiest crowd and some of the most amazing parties ever.

SPEAKER_01 18:37

I think I heard the the um phrase coined it's adult escapism.

SPEAKER_02 18:43

Aha, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

From our everyday life, right? Adult escapism at its finest.

SPEAKER_02 18:51

Biggest business.

SPEAKER_01 18:52

One of the things that on our first bliss, so we did this uh less than a year in the lifestyle. We did our first bliss. And for me, it was the first time that I felt morally okay with lifestyle and normal. And normal. It was the normal. It was that feeling of morally okay. I found my tribe, everything, all of the reasons that I got into the lifestyle, everything was acceptable. And that was one of the biggest things I remember on that first cruise. A first cruise, I was like, wow, I I'm okay. You know, this is lifestyle is okay. It was almost permission to do lifestyle.

SPEAKER_03 19:31

And for me as well, and again, going back, it was that same thing of as a teacher and as a military member. Uh, you always have those discretions, the you know, things involved and you're going on in your head, but is this morally right? Right. But then when you get on board and you realize 86% of the people on board the ship are teachers, military, and you're like, oh my gosh, we're just alike and we have the same body parts. That's right. Let's go, let's have a good time and let's get down and dirty.

Favorite Stories From The Ship

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 19:55

All right, I wanted to share uh our my favorite experiences on Bliss. So I have two. I have two favorite experiences. My first, still hands down to this day. My favorite party I have ever been to was on Bliss. It was on one of the larger boats. Yep. It was on a November cruise, and it was the glow party. At the back of the ship is an open deck, it's almost like a um Aqua theater.

SPEAKER_03 20:24

It's an amphitheater basically with the pool down in the very bottom.

SPEAKER_01 20:27

But it's open to the stars, and at the bottom, bottom deck, it's there's a pool. So they have the pool covered over, so that was a dance floor. And then all of the decks up were they cleared out all of the chairs so people could dance on them. And it was a glow party. And so it was at night, it was under the stars, everyone was glowing, there was black lights everywhere, the music with the acoustics was just so much fun. My cheeks hurt at the end of the night from smiling. And I was there with my friends and we were just dancing and looking at the city.

SPEAKER_03 20:57

I don't think we stopped dancing. I don't think we stopped smiling.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Yeah, my feet hurt and my from dancing so much, my cheeks hurt from smiling so much. It was still to this day my favorite lifestyle party or any party that we've ever done. 100%. Yeah. All right, that was my one uh favorite. My other favorite also occurred, uh, my favorite play experience with you ever occurred on Bliss Cruise. So I we mentioned earlier that they have an outdoor play area. We went to the outdoor play area, just him and I alone. When we got up to the top, there were several beds outside, and we chose one. There wasn't anyone else up there. We couldn't see it, so it was just him and I alone. We found a bed and we lay down and we started playing and kissing and just, you know, having reconnection night. You guys, the stars above us were just bright because, of course, we're out in the ocean, so there wasn't a lot of you know, light pollution. So the stars were bright and we were just reconnecting, and then it started drizzling right. Raining. So talk about sexy. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_03 22:04

It was the hottest sex ever.

SPEAKER_01 22:06

It was, it was so fantastic just to reconnect and to have that moment together. I just wanted to, you know, think about that and just capture it in my mind. And I did. So those are two of the my favorite experiences. Yeah. What about you? What's your favorite bliss experience?

SPEAKER_03 22:21

Oh, I think all of them. Uh, because uh literally bliss is like the best experience ever. However, I want to say the first one, meaning when when we already talked about it, going on the ship and being able to uh find your tribe and actually introduce yourself to the whole community of lifestyle and just be like, we're gonna be okay in this. Uh the other part was uh, and it really kind of goes back to, and it's just happened on this last one. And actually, no, I I I'm gonna I'm gonna make three.

SPEAKER_02 22:50

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:50

So I just thought of another one. But on this last cruise, we did somewhat similar to the last one, but we were walking around, just taking a walk and doing um, you know, some pictures, taking some pictures, and then all of a sudden, uh, I realized that we were pretty close to the outdoor play area. And it was middle of day, beautiful sun was out, so we went up and we laid down. All intentions, and I crossed my heart, all intentions, we were just gonna lay in the sun because later that night we had a hot date with a couple, so we were going to with all intentions to play with them as well, but we we decided we were just gonna lay in the sun, and uh, next thing you know, Miss Cora is over there stroking my stroking the penis, and I was like, Well, this is not gonna end well, and well, it did. It was not in well, it was so amazing to be laying in this laying in the sun all hot and then get hot and bothered, and then uh playing with your your your vagina, your clip area, and in the full sunshine.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

I didn't know that uh my box liked the sunshine until that day.

SPEAKER_03 23:52

And that was hot and sunshine. It was very warmed up, and then as we got progressed and contained to shit, we were fucking and it was amazing. So hot, so hot, yeah, and so hot in so many different ways, because it was like 100 degrees out there as well. But it was amazing, it was good, had a great time. So that was the outdoor sex, man. It's outdoor sex is great. And um the third that I like to bring up is um actually I want to bring this up almost as a don't try this at home type thing. Uh so we it was uh that might have been our first one, and we've decided to do body paint for glow night. And uh what we didn't realize was that that glow the glow body paint that we had bought was a little bit on the crappy side and didn't want to dry.

SPEAKER_01 24:31

It didn't dry. Well, because it was so humid.

SPEAKER_03 24:33

So humid on board the ship.

SPEAKER_01 24:34

So he put hand prints like on my ass.

SPEAKER_03 24:37

You had body paint all over you. I did. Body paint all over you.

SPEAKER_01 24:39

We just did it ourselves. We didn't, you know.

SPEAKER_03 24:41

We just did it ourselves in the room. We went out, we had a great time, and you know, lo and behold, every time she sat down at the toilet, uh, she left hand marks around, which were like, oh shit. But then what we didn't realize is when we brought a couple back to our room to play, that the next morning it looked like there was uh an exorcist going on in the room because there was body paint everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 25:00

Those white sheets probably had to be thrown away because there was body paint everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 25:04

On the sofa, you name it. There was body paint everywhere.

SPEAKER_01 25:07

We're like disaster. So uh needless to say, we have never done our own body paint since the scratch the body paint.

SPEAKER_03 25:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:14

I'll get I'll get body painted in like Key West when there is a professional doing the body paint, but I'm not doing it myself anymore.

SPEAKER_03 25:21

And that's another great thing is they do have body painters on board Bliss Cruise.

Booking Details And Affiliate Link

SPEAKER_01 25:23

Yeah, they do have professionals. Good ones. Those are good favorite experiences. All right, and now a little bit about the how. If you want to book a Bliss Cruise, you can go to the Bliss website. Or if you want to learn more about the Bliss Cruise, go to their website. It is blisscruise.com. Breaking news, we are super excited because we, Nextdoor Swing, just became affiliates with Bliss Cruise. Bliss Cruise, that's our favorite cruise. That is the lifestyle cruise that is also clothing optional, adult and no children on board. We are very excited to be affiliated with them. This means on your next Bliss Cruise, you can use our affiliation link and it doesn't cost you anything extra. And it helps out our podcast and our YouTube channel, helps support us. We would greatly appreciate it. And the way to find that link is to click in the show notes or click in the description where you're seeing this and come join us on the next Bliss Cruise. Thanks.

SPEAKER_03 26:23

Pretty simple. And again, the app and the app is operational 24-7 throughout. Oh, is it?

SPEAKER_02 26:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:28

Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna jump right ahead.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

And it's into the tips, into the tips.

SPEAKER_03 26:32

It is so on the app, the app I can't talk so highly of it, but the app just go to the um Google Play or the App Store, Bliss Cruise. It comes up the little blue logo with the Bliss Cruise right on it. Download it, you can set up a profile, you can connect uh your wife's or your significant other's profile to it as well. But it's a great way to contact people on board the ship. And and why I say that is because when you're out on the uh open water, you know, there's usually not Wi-Fi or the ship's Wi-Fi is pretty crappy, and there's no way to use your phone to connect to people. What used to happen was people would make little um business cards and hand them out. Well, that's not needed anymore because this Bliss Cruise apps operates off of the Wi-Fi of the ship and it works fantastic throughout the ship during the cruise.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

And you can use it before too. So you can use that app before to connect with couples before you get on the boat.

SPEAKER_03 27:20

You can make groups in the chat uh function if you're a bunch of you coming on board. It was really great. I cannot speak highly enough of that Bliss app. And it has all the information up, everything you need to know about the cruise right in your hands because it has the compass. Right, all the events.

SPEAKER_01 27:34

All the computer compass is the events, so that'll tell you when and where the meet and greets are, all the seminars.

Practical Tips For First Timers

SPEAKER_03 27:40

All the information you need right there in the palm of your hand. So the Bliss app, you gotta get it. And check out Bliss.com, Bliss Cruise. Blisscruise.com.com to uh book your next cruise. That's right. All right, so transition to what I already jumped into.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

Yeah. All right, just the tips.

SPEAKER_03 27:54

Here we are for just the tips.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

All right, the so app is was the first tip. The tip I wanted to talk about were theme nights. Every Bliss Cruise has a glow party, it has a fetish night or a glow night, a fetish night, and a formal night. Every Bliss has those three core, and then they add in some other ones as well. Go all out on the theme nights.

SPEAKER_02 28:17

Why not?

SPEAKER_01 28:18

They're fun. Um, get involved, bring things to dress up in. This is your time for that adult escapism. This is the time to get the costumes out, get in theme.

SPEAKER_03 28:31

And you'll see some of the craziest, craziest outfits for some of these themes, which I absolutely uh love. Absolutely love. And trust me, from my point of view, I was a dude that would show up with a pair of shorts and maybe uh and I'm not I'm talking just like plain black shorts and then a t-shirt, and that would be my outfit for the night. Now it's like game on. We're we're all in. Let's do it. He's all in and it's a blast.

SPEAKER_01 28:54

He's all in. Uh, another one is use the playrooms. The playrooms are super sexy. Um, use them, take a couple there, just go there yourself. That's actually what we do most is on Bliss. Even this last February one, we played with just each other in a playroom all of the times, except the last night, whenever we were with another couple. That was it. Um, and so use the playrooms. Um, go to the outdoor ones, go to the fetish one, the dungeon one, go to the solarium. It's so sexy.

SPEAKER_03 29:25

One last shout out to the Bliss Cruise guys out there in the management team. Amazing job. What they do is every night they actually change up the theme to match the theme. So the the playroom themes match what's going on as a theme night party. So, for instance, the first night on this last cruise was pirate night, the first night. So they had red lights in there and they had different different stuff set up inside to make it look like a little pirate theme. Yeah, they decorated. And then you know, each night it changed. So it wasn't like you're going back to the same, same, same. It was really kind of cool. They changed the lights up, they changed, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 29:59

Glow, they made it black lights.

unknown 30:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 30:02

Uh, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 30:03

That was so they changed up the theme for every every night inside the playrooms.

SPEAKER_01 30:06

Yeah, that's great. Love that. Also, uh, oh, you wanted to you wanted to mention the room, like how you like to take things for the room.

SPEAKER_03 30:15

So, what I would suggest to everybody that wants to go on Bliss Cruise, because this is again, you're trying to put your best foot forward, not only inside your room, but outside your room, is take some stuff to dress up your your door. Now, all the room all the doors on board the ships are all uh are magnetic. Well, not they're magnetic, but they're all metal, so they you can use magnets on them. Yeah. Uh so bring stuff to actually, you know, posters. Uh we usually carry a little whiteboard so people can leave us messages if they come by the room and missed us. Uh bring something to hold, you know, cards if you have card business cards still. But dress up your door a little bit, make it sexy, make it fun. People I what we saw in this last one was as and that's another fun thing to do is actually, and a lot of people do this. We'll walk up and down the hallways and just check out the different rooms and the decorations. There was one that was just down the hall from us. Great idea. They had a big blackboard kind of thing off the side of their door, but they had a uh one of those old Polaroid cameras for you to take pictures and then post your picture on the board. Uh so Miss Corps boobs might have been taking a picture of and might have been posted on the board. I mean, they're amazing boobs, why not? Uh so but anyway, dress up your little room inside, but then inside, great. So a couple different things. Bring a extension cords because there's only one or two plugins, and we tend to bring a lot of stuff to plug in. But bring uh almost like surge protectors, a couple surge protectors that you can plug in. Uh, another thing to bring are magnet, magnet hooks that you can put on the walls because inside, again, it's a big aluminum can you're inside, so you can stick those magnets anywhere and everywhere to kind of organize or hang stuff up, put stuff away. So those are a couple of great ideas. But decorate your doors and magnets from inside your room. And I always bring my little speaker because you want to set the mood inside as well. Your light. And I I didn't bring the light this time. Oh, okay. But then bring a little mood lighting if you want, you know, whether it's an LED light or whatever, but usually it brings some lighting.

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Okay. All right. Uh, another tip and trick I would say is to go to the actual events.

SPEAKER_03 32:11

Yep.

SPEAKER_01 32:11

We did last April, we did speed dating. We had never done that before. It was a blast.

SPEAKER_03 32:16

On board a ship. We never done it on both.

SPEAKER_01 32:18

On board on board bliss. Like they've had it, like the event, and we've always just skipped it. But we were intentional last April to try some of the things that we hadn't always done.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

What we typically would do is we would do the day party up by the pool, and we were at the pool all day long. And but on that last April cruise, we were like, no, no, no, listen, there's a lot of stuff going on inside. Let's let's experience what's going on inside. So we went to a lot of meet and greets and we did speed dating, and it was hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 32:43

It was so fun. I I hadn't laughed so much, you know, all month for doing that speed dating. So do the speed dating, do the meet and greets, and then go all out for the theme nights.

SPEAKER_03 32:54

And that and I would have to say too, just to kind of emphasize and put this uh the just the tips to bed, explore. And not just explore with the speed dating stuff like that. Yeah, but but what you guys are wanting to do as a couple and just go out and explore. This is a safe environment, do it. Saying no is okay, saying yes is okay, get out there, explore. Yes, experience some of those boundaries or some of those things near your boundaries that you might want to try.

SPEAKER_00 33:19

And along with that, leave expectations behind.

SPEAKER_03 33:21

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 33:22

So explore and leave expectations behind.

SPEAKER_03 33:25

Leave expectations at the door. Yeah. And communicate. Make sure you communicate.

SPEAKER_00 33:28

Yeah, communicating is important.

SPEAKER_01 33:29

All right, when we come back, a question from our mailbag.

SPEAKER_03 33:33

All right.

SPEAKER_01 33:37

And we are back. Our mailbag question today comes to us from the Bliss cruise. Yeah. We were asked on the cruise, we to we were telling someone about the cruise and how 60% of the February cruise that we were on was brand new lifestyle people.

SPEAKER_03 33:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

Brand new to the boat, brand new topics.

SPEAKER_03 33:58

And mind you, we were in a little bit different of a position on this cruise because we were working it. So we were volunteer working, and so we had hours we had to work, but then we had hours we could enjoy and go out and be ourselves and have a great time. So this question was actually posed to us by someone else in the cruise while we were on the cruise at on our work shift hours type thing.

SPEAKER_01 34:18

So I think it was there's a few fold here. I think there's a few answers to this question as to why was this ship 60% new? One was it was only a four-night commitment. Seven nights is a long time. That's a long commitment for people to make, especially when they don't know if they're going to like it. And they don't want to be stuck on a boat for seven days. They can like they can do four days, but a lot of people are stuck on a boat. Like, I don't look at the seven days that way. I love it. Um, but it's a great way to introduce people to Bliss without such a long commitment.

SPEAKER_03 34:49

And I think that's exactly why it was called the sampler, right? This cruise was called the sampler for that reason. And I think Bliss has found out there's a lot of people who like sampling.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

Yes, yeah, exactly. So it was because of that. Another reason was financially, it is obviously cheaper because it's shorter. Um, and all and people could take less time off of work uh to go as well. And it wasn't as intimidating, I think.

SPEAKER_03 35:13

And I also think too that uh, and I think this has to do more with the dynamic and the diversity of the people we found on board because there was I I kind of like to think there was a younger crowd on board. And I think that comes on board of the cruise ship than this mentality because it's becoming more and more socially uh acceptable within our our community is becoming more acceptable acceptable among people.

SPEAKER_01 35:35

Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 35:36

And and they just want to have a good time as well. They don't really put uh uh as I like to call it like a label or anything on it, they just like to have a good time in a party environment, and that's exactly what you know bliss ends up being.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Absolutely. That's a great, great answer. We met we met and talked to people from all over all over the country, and um many of them don't or couldn't do things, do lifestyle activities in their own little town or something.

SPEAKER_03 36:02

Like that might come from a town of 300, 200, and they're like, oh my gosh, everybody knows everybody.

SPEAKER_01 36:06

And this is their way to get away and do something. Yep, to get away.

SPEAKER_03 36:09

And I encourage anybody else out there if you're looking to, uh if you're from a small town, you're looking to get away and try to get the lifestyle experience. This is the place to do it. On Bliss Cruise is the place to do it. Because again, you can escape to your room, you can escape to a little place and read a book. Right, you don't have to worry about fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fucking right in your face, uh, because they're gonna tell you to stop anyway if you try it.

SPEAKER_01 36:29

Definitely, definitely. I also want to push it as a classy, sexy vibe.

SPEAKER_03 36:33

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 36:34

Um, that is what they they vow to keep.

SPEAKER_03 36:36

And we uh we will be on many more bliss cruises to come, uh working and and enjoying. That's right. Uh so make sure you come out and uh and see us while you're on board. That's right.

SPEAKER_01 36:45

All right, that is our episode on Bliss February 2026. Hope you enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_03 36:50

Now, one last big uh shout out. If you want to send us a message to be included in our mailbag, how can they get a hold of us?

SPEAKER_01 36:58

Send us an email at nextdoorswing at gmail.com at com.

SPEAKER_03 37:02

And or you can reach out on all of our socials and just say hi and give us that feedback of whether you like uh about the show or not.

SPEAKER_02 37:08

Excellent.

SPEAKER_03 37:09

All right. Have a great night.

SPEAKER_02 37:10

Thanks so much.

SPEAKER_01 37:11

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