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And so we can get our answers, you know, answered and then other people can kind of know what's going on. Right. So that's the agenda today. We're going to talk all things Bliss Cruise with Dr. Storr and her husband and get kind of their insights and tips and tricks. And maybe, you know, if it's something they would do again and kind of have an open and frank conversation about that. And if our listeners are either booked on a Bliss Cruise or considering going on a Bliss Cruise, I think it would be super informative for them. Yeah. All right. So let's get into it. All right.
So I think if we're going to talk about this, the place to start is kind of at the beginning of Bliss. So when you guys booked your Bliss Cruise, did you do it through a group or an organization or did you go straight to their website? How did you guys go about that? We actually booked it through a group here in Dallas. It's a pineapple group, and they reached out to everybody in the group to see who was interested in going on a Bliss Cruise. So I mentioned it to Angie here, and she said she was interested in going.
So we talked about it here and there and we decided kind of part of our christmas present to each other is the go on the bliss period for 2023 that was back in uh november of 2022 yeah so basically the um the email or the information they gave us was just a link to like sign up on the bliss website um yeah yeah and and a bunch of us from that group here in the Dallas area went and it won't, as we'll get into later, it was so much fun. Yay. Yeah. So I booked ours, um, for us, which of course we, we have our own link because it's through Swinger Society.
So we use our own link, but it was relatively simple to get signed up. Um, you know, it's just kind of basic cruise information. Like if you're going to go on any type of normal cruise, it's all the same for me anyway. It was. Yeah. Okay. All right. And so you did the April 2023 and you guys went out of Miami, right? Yep. Yeah. We went out of Miami this time. And our cruise had, see, three days at sea, right? Three days at sea. Well, because the first day was kind of like kind of sea day. First it was like out of Miami, and then it was like a half day.
So it was like two and a half days of sea days. And then, yeah, we had stops in Grand Cayman and Jamaica. So did y'all stay? I noticed for ours in November, they had like a host hotel that a lot of people stayed at the night before. They recommend that you fly into your port 24 hours before so that way you're not trying to, you know, dodge layovers and stuff. Did y'all stay at the host hotel or did you just pick a random place to stay? What did y'all do?
We stayed at the hotel they recommended it was a hotel that they gave us a special on for the night and then they also had a pre-cruise party that night in one of the conference rooms so it was like all out dance music they had some of the djs that were on the cruise doing music well into the night like two o'clock in the morning i wasn't up that late a pretty wild, pretty crazy. Um, but it was kind of nice to meet some of the fellow passengers at the cruise, uh, on the cruise ship at the same hotel. So yeah, it's a good deal. That's good to know. Cause we, we booked it too.
Cause we weren't sure where to stay and we're like, well, if everybody else is staying there, we'll stay there. Yeah. I can't remember. I don't think that the cruise was specifically owned or that hotel was specifically only for people going on the cruise. But I will tell you, like when people started showing up, we were all in the pool. And at some point someone was like, are we allowed to take our tops off? And yeah, the hotel people were like, yeah, sure. Go ahead.
So yeah, I mean, we were here like three o'clock in the afternoon having a full on party out in the pool, which was, you know, open air and visible to the, like, the golf course that was behind it and, you know full-on party out in the pool which was you know open air and visible to the like the golf course that was behind it and you know people were topless yeah but that's kind of fun like it's almost like an extension of the cruise you get to you know kind of get the party started a little bit early yeah that was my next question is if it was like a hotel takeover if it was just their recommended hotel so i don't think that it is based like kind of what she was saying it it says that they recommend that you stay here and i think they have like a block of rooms blocked off so i don't know if if maybe because of that the majority of the people there were swingers because they were there and that's why they felt comfortable but like i don't i didn't get the impression that it was a whole hotel takeover yeah no they didn't have like the um the holes marked off and the curtains and that kind of stuff so i i don't believe the entire hotel was taken over um there was also some people like the next morning with like teenagers that i don't think probably were in the swinging community yeah so one thing we did find out that i didn't even think to ask um that when we got to the hotel um i don't if you guys were going to go there next but um they had a sign up for buses that were basically shuttling through the bliss cruise from the hotel directly to the port which was actually kind of nice because they dropped us off like literally right in front of like the doorway to the port unloaded all of our luggage right to the people that needed it um and that that was really convenient and it wound up costing i think less than an uber was going to cost based on what we looked at it was twenty dollars yeah that wasn't too bad it's good to know yeah okay that's that is good to know yeah because i guess we were just planning on ubering or something from the hotel to the to the port so it's good to know that they they provide transportation or have some kind of system for that.
Okay. So you go, you party, you're topples in a pool that's maybe the vanilla. But can we back up a little? Yeah, sure. I'm sorry. This is hard to make sure we keep it all in order because I don't want to. But so I was curious. A lot of people have reached out to me and they're like, when do we start receiving sub vehicles?
For instance, we took our family on a cruise last last year and like we had access to like it was a royal caribbean cruise we had access to their whole portal so i could like log in and see a countdown you have 100 days to your cruise i could see the excursions i could see the drink packages and all that with the bliss cruise so far we haven't been given access to that of course ours is in november and this is basically june when did you start getting more information like leading up to the cruise it was probably about february so it was about two to three months before our cruise um began they came out with all the theme nights they came out with all the um decorations they also uh the cruise line started giving him more information about how to do the drink packages, all the excursions.
So it's between about two to three months before you set sales when you'll actually get more information. And then also there is a Facebook group out there, too, if you're interested in connecting with your passengers, too, to connect with them. Oh, that's super cool. We're part of it. There's an official – I think it's like official Bliss November 2023 group or something like that. I didn't know. Yeah, they've got a group page for each one.
Yeah, and that was actually really nice, too, because some people that we had, like, communicated with online or that had reached out even through, you know, like, the Discord were like, hey, we're going to be in room such and such. Where are you guys going to be? And it was kind of nice to be like, oh, we're in this room. And, you know, so we kind of had people to intentionally bump into when we got there, which was kind of cool. Yeah. Yeah. Now, those, you know, did you, the information on theme nights and drink packages, that was relayed to you via email or?
That was relayed to us email by bliss cruise. And also it was after that, you can just go onto their website on the bliss cruise website. They'll have all the information for your cruise. Okay. And so it came from bliss cruise itself, not from your group in the Dallas area. It wasn't filtered through them. It came directly to you from bliss.
They sent an email between about every, I think three, two to three months, months but two three months before the cruise happened they had uh updates for us every now and again they would send another thing just kind of like a little hey update you know excursions are starting to book up if you're interested make sure you go and book and some most of that came through bliss cruise i don't know that we really got much at all from the um from the actual cruise line they they charter different cruise lines each time apparently so a lot of it actually just comes directly from from bliss We'll see you next time.
I don't know that we really got much at all from the actual cruise line. They charter different cruise lines each time, apparently. So a lot of it actually just comes directly from Bliss. So as far as like the drink packages and the excursion, is that pretty standard of a regular cruise? I don't know if you've ever been on a regular cruise.
Yeah, it was pretty much the standard drink packages, cost for that um and yeah all the excursions it was the normal stuff that you would have seen and been given access to if you were on that ship without it being charged okay okay so it didn't seem to be marked up for bliss not that i don't think yeah if they did it wasn't noticeable to you at least yeah cool. But you just get to do not like vanilla things with your naughty friends, basically. There was one excursion in Jamaica that was actually Topos Catamaran. It was all day. And then they had a private beach.
So that was one of the Bliss excursions. You actually had to contact Bliss to book that excursion. So that was one of those things that was, you know, separate from the cruise line. Okay, cool. That's good to know. All right. Thank you.
had to contact bliss to um book that excursion so that was one of those things that it was you know separate from the cruise line okay cool that's good to know all right so three months three months out we should expect those kind of emails perfect that was my main question for this whole podcast thank you have a great day i'm just joking okay so now you're on then you go you party at the hotel that sounds like a good time how hungover were you the morning of getting onto the the bliss cruise reagan and i are not big drinkers no so that oh good yeah so that yeah i um i'm a very cheap date i haven't lost almost anything and i'm already starting to feel it a little bit um it's probably because i don't get to drink very often just for you know my job um and reagan's not a big drinker either so he he wasn't hungover no i wasn't hungover i had two drinks and then by that time uh i was just kind of like almost partied out because there was a lot of people a lot of noise a lot of people and it was just kind of it was fun but it wasn't really my scenes yeah after having partied in the pool we were all kind of hot yeah just like we had been literally hurting all day and then to party again at night it was like almost too much it was like we're exhausted yeah starting a little sunburned and whatever all right so the next day you get on the bus they take you to the port you drop your bags and get on um i'm assuming it's pretty typical crew stuff it's then they bring your luggage to your room and you're kind of just waiting to to launch out of the port and they're in miami yeah I don't know.
I assume it's pretty typical cruise stuff. It's then they bring your luggage to your room and you're kind of just waiting to launch out of the port there in Miami. Yeah. One of the insider tips that we've done a lot was we actually get on the cruise ship early. So we can just check out the cruise ship, walk around, see where things are at. Our bags are dropped off later into the rooms. Usually it's a staggered system, how it works. So we went up on the top deck.
We had lunch, and we just kind of waited around, and then we just kind of checked here and there, went down to our room to check to see if our luggage was there, and we just kind of chilled and talked to other people there on the cruise ship. Yeah, we got food, too. They always have, like, the buffet when you get on the boat.
One other thing, though, is when you're in port, like, before you leave you leave you can't um get topless or you know undress on the boat until after it gets to a certain part off shore offshore it was like three miles out shore they didn't make an announcement i just saw people getting undressed that night we're all kind of waiting for the announcement and then people just started taking off their tops. We're like, okay, I guess it's time. Yeah. So is it topless or is it, can you be fully nude? Is it just topless? Stark nude. Absolutely. Yeah.
Anywhere that's not inside, you can be absolutely completely buck naked and nobody's even going to wink. All the playroom areas, you're allowed to be completely naked. In fact, some of them you're required to be naked. Yeah. Some of the playrooms, like you literally were given a completely naked. In fact, some of them, you're required to be naked. Yeah, some of the playrooms, like, you literally were given a bag. You had to undress before you even went in because they didn't want you to wear clothing in there.
If you're inside, so, like, in areas that serve food or in the hallways or something, you have to be covered with very big air quotes. Okay. So, like, you need to throw something on top of what you, like, a robe or something. No. Okay.
So, I said big air quotes okay so like you need to throw something on top of what you like a robe or no okay so i said okay big air quotes there was one man that wore a black thong and a mesh top inside nobody even that's close there was women that were literally wearing completely and utterly see-through dresses that barely covered their hind ends that was considered clothed there was actually a woman at one point in a thong and pasties at dinner clothed that was clothed that's her outfit that's her outfit she worked hard on it yeah it does yeah yeah we've that's pretty typical of like when we joke that anytime there's a body of water in a swinger event the clothing dress code goes way down yeah it goes way downhill like you can get almost especially females can almost get away as long as your vagina is pretty like has a fabric over it you can almost get away with it um so you know we just got back from hito and they're kind of the same way like you can go through the buffet but you have to be closed you know in the food areas but like for a female a thong and pasties is considered closed like that's that's enough you're good to go or like you said a sheer see-through road yeah that's okay as long as there's that that for some reason i don't know you know from a medical perspective if it's true but for some reason a barrier some type of barrier there is going to protect you from any uh any diseases i don't know if that's true yeah i had to peel my ass off several chairs like you know like from wearing like little of nothing at the you know after dinner because you sit there for an hour yeah okay so you say you got on the boat early do you know what time what time they'll let you on it is there a certain time we had the earliest one it was 10 30 in the morning so you actually make reservations to when you're going to get on the boat.
That's, I think, one of the things that they do with that three-month-out email. They did. It was a three-month-out email. You sign up what time you want to get on the boat for two reasons. Probably because of one of the pandemic, they changed on how many people can stand in line next to each other, which is nice.
The other thing is there's not a big crowd at that time, so they stagger how many people are getting on the boat at that time so as well as you're not waiting in line for all these big lines and so our process to getting on the boat was actually very smooth we were about 100 people and then they called us up front you scanned your passport you scanned your boarding pass and you walk right on in the boat it's like five minutes to get on the boat. It was amazing. Yeah. They should have been doing that, like, for years with cruise ships scheduled.
Yeah, we had very similar when we went on our family cruise. The only difference is we had to literally show them our COVID test. But it was, again, even with COVID, it was so easy because they were spacing them out, and it was just very little to get on. So that's awesome to hear. Yeah. And so you had no COVID requirement for testing, did you, for years? Okay, yeah. I know there was a lot of people talking about that. I don't know.
them out and it was just very little to get on so yeah that's awesome to hear yeah and so you had no covid requirement for testing did you for years okay yeah i know there was we had to show everybody but they didn't ask at all so yeah yeah smart okay so then you got on the boat you went and you got some food and then i you know you're saying uh that they launched is there some kind of did they do a launch party like uh they had a huge uh sail away party that up on the upper deck um they were people just rubbing and grinding against each other and just getting friendly it was a big loud music dance party up on the top deck on the pools and the hot tubs and it was a pretty cool scene to watch and just everybody's just having a great time it was it was a lot of fun yeah yeah i would imagine kind of like hito or any of these like week-long events like in the beginning like everybody's just having a great time.
It was, it was a lot of fun. Yeah. Yeah. I would imagine kind of like Hedo or any of these like week long events, like in the beginning, like everybody's just gung ho, like go 100. Right. And then you probably hit like day three or four and it's like, everybody has a totally different look on their face. And I'm like, okay, we're still alive, but we're not, not the same energy as necessary on day one. Oh, I will tell you some of these people had energy to spare Thursday night, Friday night. I was like, holy cow, people. We get off the boat tomorrow.
They were still like the glow party, which was – was that Friday? That was Wednesday night. No. Oh, that party, though. The glow party. That was Friday night. That was Friday night. Friday night was probably the biggest party of all of the parties.
It started at 10 o'clock, which is when most of the evening parties started, which is like half an hour past my bedtime so i didn't go to most of them but and that glow party everybody and their dog was dancing until 2 a.m yeah yeah so do you want to talk about the parties now speaking of parties well like give us i guess i'm curious is kind of uh like i know like when we go to secrets and when we go to Hedo, they all kind of have the same basic like, okay, you go to a pool party.
That usually starts around 10, 11 o'clock, 11 o'clock-ish, and then the pool parties go to 3, 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and then people take that dinner break and get changed, and then it's like dinner and then into the night parties. What's the general flow of bliss?
Is it like that or is there just stuff going on all the time like how does bliss work constantly so you get just like a regular cruise the night before you get like your everything that's happening tomorrow um and there was stuff pretty much all day long and it some of it went from like um silent dance parties which those were actually quite fun where everybody's wearing you know like music you know you could pick your own music and then you basically dance to it with a bunch of other people on the boat um and so there was stuff like that but there was like meet and greets there was educational seminars and workshops that you could go to there was play time um there were specific times for play time.
There was multiple play areas on the boat that were open at different times during the day. Um, as I was saying, like nine 30, 10 o'clock, I start turning into a pumpkin. Um, and so I, yeah, so I was, I was all up for the like early afternoon play times, which typically were from like two to four 30 or two five, two 35, what have you. Um, you. But they basically had like multiple things going on kind of all day long. So if you wanted to go hang out by the pool and, you know, listen to the music there, they have a DJ.
Or if you wanted to go do playtime or you want to go to a seminar, you know, there was just stuff kind of going on all the time. Okay.
And then as far as the themes go um did people dress for themes for dinner and then they like like an after club party or yeah people all day long um some of the dining rooms all as a most of the regular hotel uh cruises go they have special restaurants where you have to be in nice formal wear but the regular uh dining room at night you can wear your your theme wear that night and then uh just go into the right straight into the parties because normally it's between about a couple hours afterwards um is the theme party where everybody were in there like monday night was the daisy dukes and cowboy boots and everybody was you know wearing this uh that gear so yeah there was a lot of meet and greets kind of in between dinner and when the playrooms would open most of the time the playrooms opened around 10 o'clock at night Thank you.
Everybody was, you know, wearing this gear. Yeah, there was a lot of meet and greets kind of in between dinner and when the playrooms would open. Most of the time the playrooms opened around 10 o'clock at night. And people could start going to dinner like as early as like 6-ish. 6-ish. And it was open dining time. So basically whenever you're ready to eat, they would sit you down at a table. It kind of like either family style or you have like table 8 or you can do a table of 2 or table of 4. So we met a lot of people that way. Also a lot of couples. Okay.
So you just go sit out of a big table and then whoever sits there is there with you. Yeah. They see you basically the first night they asked, so are you guys okay with sharing a table? By the second night, the cruise ship had figured out there's no point in asking. Everybody's okay with sharing. So they just sat you wherever. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Yeah.
It's probably probably it's probably interesting because they like you said they do jump around they don't use the same ship every time and they're probably not the same staff every time so i'm sure some of those staff that are experiencing a bliss cruise it's their first time experiencing a blister cruise so they're probably getting used to you as well as you're getting used to them right yeah i mean honestly the staff a lot of the staff had experience with Bliss Cruises before because they'd be like, oh, we love it when the Bliss Cruises here.
Number one, they didn't have to wear their formal wear. So they were allowed to wear their just like button up and shorts and like tennis shoes. Oh, that's nice. And even like the higher up staff, the captains and stuff, they just wore a button down and pants.
So they loved it because they didn't have to dress up as much and they apparently swingers are much happier people were nicer to the staff imagine that imagine that so they were all like oh we love it when the bliss cruises come because you guys are all so nice it's awesome yeah by the way there was very very strict rules that were sent out in advance that you were not allowed to hit on the staff oh yeah we were just at hedo and that was like also a topic a conversation because they have dancers and they're like gorgeous you know and we all especially us ladies we're all all about the guys and yeah apparently there is no you're not supposed to hit on them you're not supposed to proposition the help but i feel like it was still happening but that's just me well i mean some of us might have flirted a little bit but yeah oh i did anybody stepping over the boundary oh okay good yeah um so what else uh okay so you said playroom so you said there's multiple playrooms on the ship yes there was uh three playrooms there was a couple's only that's where you had to be fully nude and that was in the front of the ship in the solarium area so basically it's a big hot tub area it's covered in the daytime with and you can see the sun and it's huge and they just have beds like these thick i would say four inch um beds that are waterproof foam patches but they're waterproof and they're all around the the water area and then they have some that are curtained off so they can have privacy and they're probably i would say 20 25 beds in that area um and then there's one in the back of the ship that's uh was about 16 um similar area they They had a big bed for open play area and then the ones that are closed off with curtains.
And then they had another one way up in the back of the ship on the top level where it was an open area, open to the sky, everything. And it was coming along the weather. Sometimes it was nice. Sometimes they didn't see anyone up there at all. I love the idea of daytime play. That's pretty awesome because we talk about this all the time. Like, why do swingers start playing at midnight? Like, we need to go to bed. This is way too late. So I love the idea of daytime play. Yeah. Very much so. My favorite was the daytime play.
So usually the first, like, hour of daytime play was a very specific group of people.
um one day it was um bye-bye couples so both partners were supposed to be bi um there was one day it was girls only and that was by far the most fun i had on that ship the entire time only cow got my new nickname from that um yeah if anybody is on sdc or any of the other ones we don't want to talk about that stuff are we sorry uh yeah our our name changed oh i love it yeah it's because of the nickname i picked up there um but yeah then yeah then there was another time where um it was bdsm yeah so there was actually a fourth playroom that was just for bdsm we forgot about that one.
So the BDSM playroom had open times in the afternoon and in the evening. But, yeah, the afternoon would have, like, one hour of very specific play time, and then the other hour, an hour and a half would be whoever wanted to come. So, like, the bye-bye couple, some of them hung around into the, like, regular group time play.
After the girl time play, there was a lot of guys that came in and, know kind of joined their their significant others um yeah it was actually it was it was fun i mean the girl time was so much fun oh my gosh so that's that's really interesting to me i like that out of all the you know you know things we've attended hotel parties and resorts and all this stuff is i don't think i've ever seen like scheduled play i've never seen scheduled play specific to like a like a group like you're talking so i guess i guess my my follow-on question to that is like how does that work because generally like at resorts and you know places we go it's like you know you meet people on the dance floor and stuff like that and then you kind of you know you connect with people and you end up going to a playroom this in my head it sounds like you just show up for a playroom at a certain time and there's people that are there looking to play oh yeah walked into the girls playroom and one of the girls looked at me yelled out my new nickname and off to the races so there's not much i guess how do you there's a communicate or there's a meeting really happens before the the scheduled playtime in the afternoons.
It's like an hour before that playroom opens for that specific category, that specific group of people.
So, yes, you can meet and greet up there and find some people you're interested with and then go down to the – And I guess like if you find like, for instance, the girl and girl, if I like have a connection with another female and be like hey just go on thursday there's going to be a girl girl do you want to go with me how do you feel like so we have like a friend there that you know that could be nice you can kind of pre-plan it well there was several of us that were like hey you're gonna go to the girl time yeah i'm going to the girl time you go to the girl time yeah and then we all kind of showed up within a few minutes of each other but i mean once you're actually in the in the playroom and everybody's naked, it kind of just becomes a free for all, to be honest.
I mean, there were times where I like right after the girl time, the like couples came in. And again, some of them were just like meeting up with their others there. And I started playing with random guys, hadn't met, you know, it was kind of like, hey, that was great. What was your name? Yeah. Yeah. And then you bump into them again the next day.
You like oh sweet i was hoping you'd be here you know yeah and again we didn't necessarily see them ever otherwise on the boat like yeah 3 000 people on a boat you don't necessarily bump into people regularly and then there's something you bump into all the freaking time and never yeah so how what would your I mean, the first thing I think about, you know, we talk a lot about it's like consent and stuff. So in that situation where you don't know people and people are coming in and kind of asking to play, was everybody good about, Hey, is it okay if I do this? Is it all right if I touch you?
Is it okay? You know, was that pretty strictly enforced and followed? I don't know that we would necessarily say it was quote unquote enforced. But there were people at every playroom that were like supervising their bliss crew security um so bliss crews uh has their own security separately so they basically kind of watched and monitored um the playrooms and make sure that everything was going well yeah that back playroom typically like there was probably about 16 as he was saying 16 like surfaces on which you could play.
And there was two to three people in there at any given time that were just supervising. And so they would kind of watch and make sure that everybody looked comfortable. A lot of it was like people would say, hey, is it OK if I join in? And that was kind of like a like a blanket consent.
And then there was maybe once or twice when somebody was like, hey, you'm not super comfortable with that people would just like stop immediately like everybody would stop for a second and be like okay who said it what did they say about and everybody was really really pretty good about consent even though it wasn't specifically addressed or enforced other than there were people watching i think swingers in general tend to be very good at self-policing that. Yeah, I agree. I think a lot of us are very careful about it intentionally.
Yeah, I could just, I guess, if somebody was listening and they're like, wow, you show up at a certain time and everybody fucks each other? Like, how does that work? You can see that sounding very intimidating. Well, it probably is, but there is always a level of consent.
You don't touch someone without asking, or if you're not comfortable with someone in a group then you need to remove yourself you know we always have to protect our own selves so I think that would be my takeaway from this and that's something I've had to learn as a female in the lifestyle is I have a voice and it's okay for me to speak up and it's okay for me to say no which is not something I did pre a lot previously, like in vanilla relationships. I never really got myself in situations that I wasn't comfortable with. And I think in the lifestyle, it tends to happen a little bit more.
So learning that you have a voice and you can say those things is important. Yeah, and people were pretty good about that. There was a couple of times where we were at like the couple's playtime in the afternoon and we would, you know, kind of just wander around a little bit and in that area and be like, hey, do you guys want anybody else to join? And sometimes I'd be like, nope, we're good. Okay. We should move on. You kind of learn not to get your feelings hurt when people say that. 100%. The playrooms, most of them all, all of them had curtains on the playroom.
So I guess the code is, well, curtains are closed. That means they don't want any visitors. Curtains are open. They're slightly open. Then maybe ask. If they're completely open, then they're just, you know, you can still ask. You can still ask, but they're likely to say, hey, yeah, come on in. Yeah. That's pretty standard. So that's good to know. That's the same. Okay. I think now what we need to do is take a little break and hear from the partners and sponsors of the Swing Nation podcast.
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So, some of the things we haven't talked about yet, I think we'll start with excursions. So, we've been on cruises. Well, I've been on one cruise. I'm very experienced on cruises. I've been on one. Thank you. talk about bliss cruise. Uh, okay. So some of the things we haven't talked about yet, I think we'll start with excursions. So we've been on cruises. Well, I've been on one cruise. I'm very experienced on cruises. I've been on one, but, uh, um, you know, the, the excursions is our, is a thing on most cruises and it's, it's a fun thing.
I can't imagine what dynamic gets added to that when you bring a group of lifestyle people and throw them in somewhere like, you know, the, I don't know where you guys stopped, but you know, you mentioned a few places. So how did that work and how did that go? So I would say, um, the, the group dynamic is actually really fun.
So when you're with a big crowd of swingers going and doing something like technically vanilla and you have to stay clothed and everything, it's, it's really entertaining to watch the people that are with you that are like the guides because they're really confused because like people are like hanging on to each other and grabbing each other's butts and you know it's quite entertaining um but yeah they just like any other cruise the excursions really were kind of big group events and you would go do any number of things you know we did a um swinging swinging swimming with stingrays and that was a lot of fun um so yeah there's lots of different ways to do it but yeah it was i will tell you that just in general on the ship people were like super friendly like on regular cruise ships people don't like make eye contact um and on the bliss cruise there was actually several times where we overloaded the elevator like like wicked fits couple marine come on in oh she's not wearing a top come on in no i mean like yeah and someone was like joking around and she's like i'm gonna do the elf thing with my butt and just like hit all of it and then and the elevator would overloaded please remove some it was just hilarious because you never have that on a regular cruise that is a common problem several hotel takeovers we go to when they do the hotel takeover they put giant signs on the elevators and in the elevators that say no more than 18 people 18 whatever whatever the that's a big ass elevator the limit is uh because uh yeah people the swingers like to cram onto those yeah we do it's crazy yeah um that's funny okay so the excursions but even shore days i mean i i don't know i can think about like our you know family cruise we went on i don't know if i'd even want to get off the boat though yeah that's what i was wondering like is it like is it almost more fun just to stay on the boat and be naked and be yeah you can stay out stay on the boat and hang out and there's entertainment going on it's maybe just time to be to just have less people with you we did our excursion early in the day when we did the stingrays in grand cayman so when we got back we still had half the day left we was like we got back at noon and we still had another two three hours before we left the port so it was kind of nice just to have a little bit of chill day so a lot of people that have been on these cruises and have been to the ports don't get off just because they're like i've been to grand cayman six times i don't want to bother you know we hadn't been to grand cayman or jamaica before so we wanted to get off but not everybody did and a lot of people just stayed on the boat.
Yeah, and then when you're pulling into, like, the Grand Cayman in Jamaica, is there another two-mile rule that you have to put all your clothes back on before you pull into those ports as well? Yeah, they pull into the port in the morning. So most of the time, you actually are going to be getting up and putting clothes on. So, yeah, that's a two-mile thing, too. So once you're in port, and then once they leave port, you can take your clothes off after two miles out of port. Is that like a party each time? It's like, okay, get naked again. Yeah, pretty much.
Okay, so another question that we had was about the entertainment. So I guess there's pool parties during the day and there's like DJs at the pool they, they doing all the typical swinger games and like, you know, I know party Mark and Chelsea are always there. Did y'all get a chance to see them? I don't, we did not meet them, but one of them, I don't know if we ever played the swinger game, but they did the, uh, car wash, uh, swinger game. I don't know if you've heard about this is where the girls stand on all this.
Um, there's like 30 girls, 15 on each side and a guy runs in between the girl that's naked naked and they try to take off the soap off of their bodies oh that's funny yeah that's a good one yeah yeah so yeah there was pool parties that had like all of the normal the normal things and you know people would pretty much they it would be like the the pool would say like max load 14 people and there would be like 30 of us in there you know, all buck ass naked. And it was, max load, 14 people, and there would be, like, 30 of us in there, you know, all buck-ass naked, and it was fun.
But there was also a lot of other stuff. The cruise line itself had some, like, people that were playing instrumental music, piano stuff. There was a comedian one night. He's in the lifestyle.
He came and did a performance everybody loved him most of the nights they had um people who were contracted by bliss and so like the lifestyle comedian he was hilarious um there was several nights that they had a band that um was called the flux capacitors and they played like 80s and 90s music oh my gosh you could tell how all the swingers were like rushing the stage and basically all just dancing on the stage it was so much fun and like i'm sure the the flex capacitors were like this is the best crowd ever so it sounds like they kind of catered the entertainment towards swingers and kind of what they're into oh 100 yeah i think when we did the cruise it was like ice skating and like uh family one there was a plays and stuff like that yeah so yeah i wouldn't know how that would translate to to lifestyle people but i guess i mean lifestyle people they just be naked sitting in the audience watching a play i guess no you got to be you got to be dressed inside oh inside that's right that's right yeah dressed air quotes yeah so um what would you say that like the ages were like is it an older crowd a younger crowd a good mix what would you say i think we've met the youngest one was like 22 in their 20s all the way to their 80s that we yeah yeah it was actually every single age shape race color background background.
I met a couple from New Zealand, two couples from Australia. There's a bunch of people from France. They barely spoke English, but we managed to get consent anyways. I love that. My friend isn't so good, but we managed. We managed. Yeah. If we've heard a critique about Bliss Cruise, it is that people usually say, oh, it's an older crowd. But we've heard that about other things as well. But we've found that if we just go with our friends and go with an open mind, we have a blast, regardless of the age difference. I think a lot of these places are kind of, are catering to all ages.
So I think it's all in what you make it.
I say i think the majority probably about 65 70 of people were probably in their 40s and 50s so around okay right okay that's cool yeah that seems pretty typical what what you know most most events you know in general but then something for something like bliss uh but yeah like what lacy was saying we've always found like if you go you're just going to find people you connect with and you know you can do that in just about anywhere um and it's all about the environment and having that open-minded uh yeah you know going into it being open-minded and like you said all shapes all sizes all nationalities which is another good thing you know a lot especially like well i don't want to speak for men but for women i think a lot of us get like a little intimidated when you go to these things that are so big like this am I going to look like everybody else or am I going to be heavy compared are they all going to be these stick figure women or men you know so I think it's nice to hear that there's a little bit of everything a little every size everything that's how it was at Hedo there's literally across the board and everybody's welcome and everybody's kind to each other.
Yeah. And I will say there was every size and shape and everybody was naked. Couldn't care less. I mean, you know, I've got roles. Reagan does not. Nobody cared. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it was a really good, it was a really good crowd.
And I mean, there were some people were some people who you know like if they were in a typical crowd other people may not have been very kind like certainly were i don't know what's the word i would be looking for um definitely on the margins of society yeah um yeah some people that were really unusually short um i don't know if they were actually little people was some really, really short people on, on the cruise. And there was one guy who had to have been close to seven foot tall. And normally like people would kind of gawk and I said, nobody seemed to care.
And they were all walking around naked too. Yeah. Yeah. No, and that's, that's what we've always said about the lifestyle communities.
It's such an open-minded and accepting group of people that are just, you know, you're just there to make people for them as people like nobody cares about what you do for work nobody cares who you voted for in the last election what how much money you make a year it's just i want i want to have fun with you i want to party and i and you know maybe hook up and and i want to get to know you as a human and uh you know and see if we make that connection and everything else really doesn't matter correct okay. Okay. Let's talk, let's talk a little bit about tips and tricks.
So me and Lacey, uh, are getting ready to go on our first bliss cruise in November. Uh, we have a group from swinger society that's coming. And I think, I think the majority of us are first timers and have never been on a bliss cruise. So are there any things that you learned on this trip that you're like, man, I wish I had done this or didn't do this. Or if I, you know, next time I'm going to do this, what would be some of your tips and tricks for us going into November?
Well, one thing that was right out the gate, um, is that a lot of people wear necklaces with their names on them and they actually give those for free.
So one of the, one of the groups or companies, travel companies makes them and so like the first i think it was probably all the way through the first like three days they had a little setup in one of the areas close to the food and it was like blocked off and you just write your name down and come back three or four hours later and it was on a necklace for you and almost everybody was wearing those because you're again gonna meet a million people on the cruise and you're going to bump into the same person three or four times. And if you're like me, I am awful with names.
I'll remember that I've seen you. I'll remember where I saw you. I might remember what your genitalia looked like, but I will not remember your name. So I, yeah, it was nice that a lot of people were wearing necklaces because then you didn't have to worry about remembering names. So, knowing to go and get one of the necklaces kind of right out the gate was super helpful. You want to talk about the Slut Cards? Yeah. Another thing is Slut Cards. They're basically the business cards, but it has your contact information. So, either you can get a hold of them on the… I love it Slut Cards. Yeah.
That's what they call them. I've never heard of them. That's what they call them Slut Cards. So, it basically has your contact information, a picture of you and the couple together so you can get to contact them on the ship or even afterwards so you can make connections afterwards. So we got several of those. We need to actually do ours next time we go on. Yeah, and people would put there. So that's funny that you bring it up because we actually got made fun of because we had them. But we never called them slut cards.
Now that they're called that, I love that love that but it's actually very very common when you go to these big events where you have like thousands of people you might see them across the room but never make it to the playroom with them but you are very interested and it's just kind of a way to give your information quickly and we've ordered ours from Vistaprint and never had any issues.
Like, why are you buying cards, you know, like that say this, but pretty typically they'll have like, you know, you said a picture, maybe your SLS, SDC name, whatever, whatever websites you use, it's pretty common to have that information on there. Yeah. And did you put like an email or like your kick username or what else was on these cards?
we didn't know to do that so the slut part is definitely i wish we'd known that kind of trick um but the ones that we got most of them were sls sdc and a couple kicks and then yeah a couple of them had their kicks a couple people actually put their cell phone numbers on them i was like really giving out your cell phone that's brave a bunch of swingers yeah that's kind of brave you know whether but i a boob pic at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on a Tuesday. Yeah, and your kid's going to pick up your phone. Yeah. Yeah, that's why we would probably just put our SDC, SLS, and maybe kick.
Or an email or something, yeah. Yeah, but I think that's a great tip, and I'm glad you mentioned that because I wouldn't have even thought about that. Yeah. The other thing is a lot of people, and this was one thing we did know to do, would put something of that same type of information up on their doors. So not all of the doors were decorated like a hotel party, but quite a few of them were. And, you know, like ours just had one picture of us. It had our names. It had like our SDC and our SLS. Some people had whiteboards, which was actually kind of cool.
Um, so they'd be like, Hey, leave us a message if we missed you. And sometimes we'll be like, you know, Hey, sexy people dropped by at two o'clock this afternoon. We'll be at dinner at this time.
And so like, you could just say, Hey, we wanted to meet up, but we missed you at the, you know, at this time, um, there were people that left their select cards in a little like container outside of their room as well which was kind of cool so because sometimes like i swear there was people that like i saw out of our balcony like and waved at them and said hello and stuff and it never did actually like meet them anywhere else in the ship and it would have been nice to have their select cards be like hey you were two doors down yeah so were the things on the doors magnets or did you hang it with tape like how was that those were metal doors the I don't know.
You were two doors down. Yeah. So were the things on the doors magnets or did you hang it with tape? Like how was that? Those were metal doors. They were magnets or you can probably bring that like the sticky tape, the poster tape too. Yeah. Yeah. We did the double set of sticky tape because that's what we had. But the doors were metal. And I think most people that had been on cruises like this before had metal things to stick stick up. Yeah. They had, like, the whole setup. They had, like, five different pictures and decorations, like, a little file thing for different things. File folder.
File folders. Oh, my gosh. Like, they were – some of them were tricked out. Yeah. That's funny. God, I need – Stop giving Lacey ideas. My mind is blown. And I know that, like, people are like, where the heck do you buy a lot? Etsy has a lot of good stuff like that. And I'm sure they have specific crews. Yeah, they do. I mean, you might get a raised eyebrow when you say, can you put naughty girl 1, 2, 3 on it? Squirder 3, 4, 5. But I'm sure you're not the first one. So it just happens. It's part of it.
I don't think that people on Etsy are really worried about what they're putting on it as long as you pay for it correct correct okay so bring our name necklaces bring our slut cards contact cards and then decor our door yeah what else you got i would say drink lots of water i mean you're really on the hot sun and drinking alcohol i mean i think I chuggedugged two to three, 32 ounces of water most every day. It's just. Reagan also wore all of the hair off of his knees on this trip. I am not shitting you. So. Doggy style. Lots of doggy style. I was like, what?
Because usually on a cruise, you're not exercising as much as you will on this one. Yes. Gotcha. Gotcha is good that's solid advice what was reagan doing take water to the playrooms too because it was not uncommon they always had water outside of the playrooms like a couple of things of water like little cups they would run out like 15 minutes into a two-hour playtime they're like spa containers of water but they would run out um the nice thing is the the player games did offer lube and condoms, too. And towels. Yeah. That's nice.
So did a lot of people bring – I know it's pretty common in lifestyle. A lot of people will bring their, like, cups, their tumblers that have, like, their upside-down pineapple, or a lot of them will have their name. Was that pretty common? That was pretty common, too, yes. Oh, yeah.
And I will tell you a lot of people had fun clothing on too um like some of the what are some of the fun fun ones we saw offshore drilling was one of my favorites yeah offshore drilling like shirts that say that like inappropriate legs two seater all those t-shirts yeah dan has one that we have one that says i'm here to fuck someone's wife yeah um so yeah we've we've seen those that's pretty cool yeah so you i guess is it the club nights and stuff like that it's collared shirts and stuff is that what they want you to wear or or you could wear she's shaking her head so i'm guessing when we go to whatever you can wear the party stuff or the theme nights or you can just wear what do you want to wear feel comfortable with it's not you know okay the standard yeah because we've heard mixed things too and that's the same like with hito and even like a secrets is some people are like oh you got to wear a collared you know at least a collared shirt you know and it can be in theme but you have to wear a called short shirt and shorts then you see other people that are like in short underwear and have like neon you know suspenders on and that's it you know i mean like so it sounds like what you're saying is as long as it's loosely in theme and you have your balls covered you're good to go yeah that's right you don't really have your balls covered just your penis yeah i told you earlier just a sock with a mesh shirt yeah his thong covered just the dong it had nothing and they'd wear that and they would wear that to dinner oh yeah okay good to know good to know because you know typically cruises for dinner you kind of get dressed up a little bit yeah a lot of people didn't get dressed up a little bit they were there were people that dressed up every night and like people that weren't in theme a lot of them dressed up nicely but i'll tell you like 80 of people on the boat were in theme every night yeah that's good to know that's good yeah uh and then you know we've always i imagine is it hot everywhere like because that's when we talk about themes a lot of it's like especially like a hito or something like that it's like you know dress in theme but remember it's going to be hot and humid hot your feet are gonna are going to hurt.
You need to dress like slutty, but also... Durable. Durable. Like endurance-y. Yeah. So thin, lightweight clothes and stuff like that. But this is a ship that's air-conditioned, so maybe it's not as bad as if you're out on the top deck or something like that. Yeah, it's not as bad. I mean, they had one night that was, it wasn't a medieval theme, but it was a theme of it. By the pool?
No theme the theme night the theme nights were medieval renaissance renaissance there was renaissance and a lot of the renaissance dress like my dress was a long sleeve renaissance dress and i just stayed inside while i was wearing it but that one i definitely changed out a lot faster than i probably did any of the other nights when i was wearing stuff that wasn't quite so warm. So when you change, did you go like back to the pools or did you do like lingerie?
Cause I know that that kind of differs, like at a hotel takeover where there's maybe not a pool, a lot of times you'll wear your theme outfit and then you'll change into a lot of lingerie and then like kind of party the rest of the night in lingerie.
But I know sometimes when there's a pool, usually you'll just get naked and go to the pool so i just didn't know how that was during that night it really got cold during the after after the sun went down so a lot of people just kind of stayed in their lingerie or their party wear um so i mean you could actually just take off your clothes and just jump in the pool but most of the time the water is pretty cold and it was actually kind of cool outside. So they did have covered hot tub areas that you could just jump into if you wanted.
Yeah, I will say that's the one thing about being on the cruise ship is that because it's moving and it's actually going at a pretty good clip, there's a good breeze outside. So even if the weather is 90 degrees, it doesn't feel that warm out on the boat deck at night. Gotcha. Okay, that makes very much sense.
Yeah, and I guess being in April and november it's always going to kind of be a little bit chilly you know they're never there you know it's not you're not there in july like august or july yeah okay any other tips and tricks that you have for us before we go anything else you can think of no uh i would say also also the meet and greets they have meet and greets that are scheduled honestly you, you can make your own meet and greets. I met a lot of couples, a lot of gals that were actually just at the bars or anywhere just kind of just doing their thing and going up and talk to them.
That's actually kind of one of the nice thing is that everybody's really friendly. You don't have to actually go to a scheduled something to meet somebody. You can just go up and talk to somebody. It's really cool that way.
so our meet and greet is just more of like an opportunity to meet other couples like is that kind of what they're doing a social hour or something like that they had different hours they were very specific specific one is for like 30s or under and the ones like 40s or over the one is for hall passes is one of them there's one that that allows BDSM, one that's into just soft swap or something that's in the only full swap, those kind of themes. There was actually one for non-swingers, and I was like, what are non-swingers doing on a swingers cruise?
But apparently there were people at that meet and greet. I was like, how the heck did you accidentally end up on a swingers cruise if you're not a swinger?
But maybe they just interested I don't know I bet you get some new nudists I know there's quite a bit of nudists that show up to some some you know swinger stuff we met a couple yeah that makes their brand new lifestyle that like there's their very first cruise they're doing it was our first cruise it was their first like experience in the lifestyle and it was kind of one of these like the the wife told us she's like I I'm pretty much you know loose pretty much, you know, loose with my husband. If he says, you know, Hey, I want to do something. I'll tell him, yeah, sure.
You book it and I'll come. I wasn't exactly prepared for this. Yeah. So you guys don't want to come back to our room then, huh? That's funny. Uh, okay.
Well, that's actually leads to a good, so, um, if people are new and have never experienced a lifestyle thing is is a bliss cruise something that they should would do or could do or um because we can ask that question all the time like oh should i go to secrets i've never gone to an event or oh should i go to hito and our answer has always been kind of the same is like yeah i don't i don't see a reason why not because it seems like a lot of these things are kind of like choose your own adventure right like i Like I know you can go to Hedo and, yeah, you can be on the nude side and watch people having orgies and go to the playroom and experience all kinds of craziness.
Or you could just hang out on the prude side and by the beach and be topless and have it be a much milder experience. Is that similar to Bliss or if you're new, maybe stay away? No, I think you could probably do it as a newbie. It may be a little overwhelming. Reagan's a little on the shyer side. I'm a social introvert, so I can be social. But I have to have someplace I can go hide for a little while when I get overwhelmed and I've had too much people thing. So we were able to, both of us, kind of make that work. And I think, yes, as a new person, it would maybe be a little overwhelming.
But I don't see why not. i don't see why you couldn't do it you can set your own pace it depends oh go ahead sorry yeah you can set your own pace on what you want to do and how active you want to be which is nice because we met several couples that's uh they were that that's how it worked they would uh you know hang out at the parties and then they would just kind of disappear and see you the next day and they're like yeah, we were done partying. Went to bed early. Yeah, and I've always said it depends on your personality.
Like, if you're a person, that would be okay going on a cruise and, like, meeting a bunch of new people. And take the swinging out of that. Like, if you would be comfortable doing all of that, then you'll probably be okay. But if you get freaked out by crowds or you don't want to see people having sex or you don't want to see nude people, like maybe this is not your scene. So I think you have to do some like a little bit of internal reflection before you book something like Bliss or Hedo or Secrets to see if you could kind of handle it.
Is sex limited to just the play areas or can you have sex anywhere on the boat? Only in the play areas. Only in the play areas and in your personal rooms. That's it. Yeah. So actually in that aspect, it's probably a little.
in that aspect probably come upon people having sex okay okay so that's different like at a hito or at like a secrets or something you know some of these places the sex is allowed just about anywhere except for where it's almost hard to avoid it but with this it sounds like yeah there's so specific places where you can play and so you could avoid it if it was something you didn't want to stumble across. Perfect. Okay. What else? I don't know. Is it no more tips and checks? I think we covered all that. We kind of covered most of the big stuff. You know, this was our first one.
And so I'm sure every time we go, we'll wind up finding something else new about it that's different. I cannot wait to hear you guys' experience on the back end. I know. So what was your overall experience? Like, would you go you love it did you hate it you know like i'm just curious like if somebody just came up to you and said what do you think of bliss i'm curious to know what your answer would be we already booked for next year within a week getting back off the boat i was like babe we gotta do that doing April again next year, though? We're doing April next year. For now, yeah.
Actually, the company that we booked through this time was one of the ones, one of the travel companies that was on the boat. And basically, we were able to put a small amount down, and it's basically good for any of the upcoming cruises in the next year or so. We just have to let them know within a certain amount of time. So if we wanted to... So we heard next... What's that?
i said we heard next november's cruise they have like the mega ship or something it's like uh real caribbean's like one of their biggest gigantic yeah yeah dan's already been like we heard that's like bliss's crew like that ship that's like you know like a bliss cruise on steroids like it's not the same as other bliss cruises like that times 10 so dan was like we already told me he's like we need to start looking at booking next november like in 2024 i'm like okay babe chill out like let's get through to november this year but yeah yeah but i've heard we've heard that like the because like the one that we're going on this year is a smaller ship i mean it's so big don't get me wrong but it's not the mega ship but we've heard from people that that definitely makes a difference.
The bigger the ship, the more, you know, probably more amenities, more things to do, that it's amazing. Yeah, we've talked to some people who said that that's the only ones they do is the big ones. That's their, like, you know, they wait for those ones to go. So we'll see. Yeah, I don't know. I think grass probably going on a smaller one to begin with was probably good. I was already nervous enough as it was because, like, I peeped a lot in about two hours. And I was like, what am I going to do if the party's every night? I actually went to bed at, like, 930 or 10 o'clock every night.
Reagan went out and, like, party. Party. And I was like, my bad. Well, and I personally get overwhelmed on regular cruise ships. And this last time we got a balcony, and it, like me and his daughter who's also introverted we just were completely content to just sit on the balcony and like watch other people and just kind of take it all in so I think like if you know that about yourself doing stuff like that is important kind of get you a little bit away from it yeah I think that that was a big thing for me too. Cause I, again, social introvert, I was able to go hide in my room.
Like sometimes we go to lunch and we'd be chatting with people all through lunch and I'm like, okay, playtime, the afternoon playtime, which was the only time I was awake for playtime is coming up in a couple hours. I was like, I'm gonna go hide in the room for a little bit. And sometimes I would just go into my room and crochet sitting on my balcony. Yeah. I love it. Swinger by day, crochet by night. I'm so old. I crochet for funsies on a swinger. You're not that old. Oh, come on. All right. Well, anything else in the world of Dr. Soar that we need to update the Swing Nation listeners on?
You guys are coming to Vegas? Is that going to be at the ASN? I need to figure out the deets. Yeah. We haven't booked yet either, but we are. Yeah. I don't know if I can come for the entire time, but I've got to come for part of it because I've got to meet you guys in person. I feel like we're old friends and I've never actually met you. It's actually the first week of school here. It's the worst week ever for us, but we don't have a choice.
We're like, okay, we have go so we're we're making it work so we will be there we're excited that's that's the plan does everybody on the podcast know why we're going to vegas i don't know dan why don't you tell them yeah so um we um collectively i think uh if we count you know dr store into the swinger society there's something like 14 nominees um between uh us and the swing to swing nation swinger society, Dr. Storr into the Swinger Society, there's something like 14 nominees between us and the Swing Nation, Swinger Society, then Dr. Storr is with her swingsafe.com.
And then, you know, several other people in our Discord server has been nominated for an ASN Lifestyle Award.
So that's people within the lifestyle that, you know, are either event coordinators or, you know, podcasts and, you know, Lacey's, you know, and uh stuff um are just being recognized for the kind of the services they provide and the education benefits they provide to the lifestyle community um so dr sora and ourselves and as well as several other people within our swinger society discord have been nominated for an asn award um and so we're all going to vegas to see to see who wins yeah and you can still vote for that um by going what is it asn magazine awards.com or something like that but it's in our show notes you can you can definitely sign find the link um to go vote um and it's voting all the way up till june june 15th i think yeah i think so and you can vote twice a day yeah so definitely go there and get get those votes in and or you can come to the awards and hang out with us too um we have a link on swingersociety.net if you want to book and come and hang out with us that would be awesome yeah for sure it would be it would be nice to bump into some people that listen to the podcast we actually bumped into some people on the cruise that listen to the podcast they're like oh, oh, my gosh, it's on your store.
I love it. Did it throw you off? It throws us off still every time we get that. You know what I mean? It's like Reagan met them first. And when they realized who he was married to, he's like, oh, I guess I have to introduce you to my wife. That's funny. That's great. Well, people people recognize you now. You've you've been out there.
been out there not only on the podcast but your YouTube channel and your website you're definitely providing a service to the community and we appreciate you for that I know I've learned so much from it so thank you for everything that you do for us you are very welcome alright we definitely appreciate everything that you guys do and being part of the team here. All right. Anything else you want to put out to the Swing Nation listeners out there? No, I'm good. Go to swingingsafe.com. Yes. Thank you for giving us all the tips. We really appreciate it.
I feel like I've learned a lot personally, so I'm excited to go to Bliss now. Yeah. You guys are going to have so much fun. Kind of a blast. Yeah. Yeah. All right. I think with that, in a world full of apples. Be the pineapple. Be the pineapple, guys. Bye. Bye.
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