10 Reasons to Cruise with JustJoeyTravels

Hello and welcome to the Gay Cruise and travel podcast with me Just Joey T brought to you by Just Joey Travels and Just Joey Travels is the focus for today's podcast. I've been a one person travel agency for a while now. I am a professional travel advisor. I am really enjoying this new endeavour even though I've only started in November is when I actually launched. Obviously I did do a bunch of work behind the scenes administrative stuff to get it going well before that, but it was technically November that I launched and I didn't do it with ton of fanfare. But it's only May now, and I'm so happy with the number of people that I've already been able to help book their next dream vacation.

But I'm learning so much as well. Obviously, new business, new industry and new profession for me. I'm learning so much and I'm also learning a lot more about what people are looking for and what people's mindsets are for those people that are wanting to go on an Atlantis cruise, for example, there's some questions that I get pretty frequently, but probably the biggest one that is my biggest responsibility as a business owner is why should I book with you?. Why should I book with just Joey Travels?. And it's a totally fair question to ask. And the fact that I get that question shows me a few things, one of which is I'm not doing a good enough job proactively convincing people and letting people know why is an advantage to book with just Joey Travels. I have spent all of this past Sunday updating the website, the contact section actually, and I have a few things planned. So that is much more obvious. And you don't need to come up to me and ask, hey, why should I book with you?. It should be a little more obvious than that. You know, like why you should pick one business over another or do something one way instead of another way. Today is the first step in that process. So today I'm going to tell you two things. I'm going to tell you why you should book with just joby travels, but I'm also going to tell you a situation where I'm not going to help you, which is like very weird for a business to tell you or tell a fraction of you certain people out there. I'm not the best option for you, and I'm going to explain to you why.

All right, before we dive into that, a couple of things. So all of the links related to just Joey Travels, I've consolidated them into one single URL and that's just Joey travels dot link dot LINK. So, you know, people have like link trees and stuff like that. So I basically created my own version. I'm not using link tree technically, but it's the same basic idea. So just Joey Travels dot link dot LINK, that's where you can find every single link related to just Joey Travels. And it's just a very easy way to consolidate all the different things going on in and around just Joey Travels. And one of the things that's linked there is the brand new gay cruise and travel community with Just Joey Travels. Months ago, I asked some of you on the podcast and I also posted on my gesture retail Instagram. And I was asking you what platform would you like to interact with me?. And I've decided for now to launch it on Telegram and on Facebook. What is this gay cruise and travel community?. I call it GCTC for short, but I'm going to call it the community here. Couple of things. The main purpose is so that all of you can ask me questions about anything cruise or travel related in a more organized way than the YouTube comments section. Some of you longer time listeners of the podcast know that, you know, every two or three months I'll gather all the questions within the comments section of my YouTube channel. Just Joey T and I will basically just answer those questions. A lot of those questions are great questions. And if you don't want your question being in this key pile of a comment section, comment sections are pretty messy on the Internet anyways. If you want like a better way to ask me a question that's not me sifting through the comments every two or three months now we can go to the gay crews and travel community on Facebook, Telegram and you can just ask me a question there, OK?. And I'll answer a lot faster because if it’s Telegram, it would just probably pop up on my phone.

So for those of you who want to ask any sort of general travel question, by the end of the this podcast, you have a better idea which questions you would be good to go to the community for and which questions you would want to DM just Joey travels for. So by the end of this podcast, as I explained a whole bunch more stuff, it'll be a little more obvious. But for a lot of that more general travel, more general cruise questions that's not booking related, this hopefully will be a great way for all of you to be able to interact with me and then post your questions. Because a lot of the questions you guys ask, they're helpful for other people too. And having this community on Facebook and Telegram, hopefully I'll be able to answer your questions and give you my advice in a much nicer environment than some comment section on the Internet. And other people will probably also find that information too, because a lot of other people probably have that same question as you. It's all LinkedIn, the just Joey Travels Assault link, that one now it's everything. So go check it out. Please go and subscribe and follow and add yourself to those. Yeah. So that is launching now. The next thing I'm launching, launching a couple things are telegram groups for the specific cruises. I thought about this that I'm dipping my toes in. So for those of you thinking about or interested in or maybe already booked onto the Atlantis San Diego to Mexico cruise that's this November, that one. I have a just Joey Travels telegram group that's also linked down below. Also linked on that page is a bunch of the Facebook groups I have for the upcoming cruises, including the San Diego Mexico cruise, including the Thanksgiving cruise. So basically there's the gay cruise and travel community for you guys to interact with me and ask your general travel cruise questions and ask for advice. There are telegram groups, at least this one to start with for those who are interested or are booked on the San Diego Mexico cruise. And we'll, it's a space for you to talk specifically about that cruise with other potential cruisers or people who have booked. And also I'll be active in that group and moderating it and also giving my advice reminders there as well. And then we also have the Facebook groups for a similar purpose.

So lots of way for you to get advice from me, even if you're not a client of just Joey Travels. Even if you didn't book with me, keep that in mind because I'm going to circle back to that now. We're going to get into why you should book with just Joey Travels. If you're thinking about booking your first Atlantis cruise or if you're thinking about booking a Virgin Voyages cruise, I do those as well. That's also part of my specialty. Now if you're thinking about booking your first cruise, these are 10 awesome reasons why you should book with me at Just Joy Troubles. Number one, I'm going to answer all your questions. I'm going to read you a quote for someone who DM me a potential client that DM me a couple weeks ago. OK, I'm wanting some help. I've never been on a gay cruise before but looking for my first one. But I have no idea where to look when they are and all that. When I search, I get confused. This is literally what this person DM me. This was their very first message. I've talked about cruises in the greater world of travel being a niche and not just a niche. You know, the way cruise ships work is very different than like going to a hotel or like hopping on a plane. So cruises are already a niche and like a specialty, but they're so different than anything else. And then we have queer cruises, a lot of different queer cruises out there, not just Atlantis. And so that's like a niche within a niche. And then Atlantis is just one of the many companies offering queer cruises. They focus on gay men. So we have a niche within a niche within a niche. So a lot of the times when I interact with potential first time cruisers, this actually mirrors how they feel. So that's why I actually picked this particular initial DM out because like for 80% of people that I talked to that are first time cruisers, this is actually how they feel. The more I work with them and the more I talk to them, the more questions they ask, the more questions I ask them. There's a lot that they don't understand or know about the cruises. And some of them don't even know what questions to ask. They just come to me like this and say I'm confused. I don't even really know where to go. And this is where talking to an expert, someone like me, if you're confused, that's fine. I know all the right questions to ask you, even if you don't know what questions to ask.

So that's reason #1 #2 is I will go one-on-one with you. So whether that's like a private DMI have been on phone calls with potential clients. So however you want to kind of communicate with me one-on-one, I don't know that many other Atlantis Travel advisors that have their Telegram and their Instagram DMS open for clients. The vast majority of my clients come to me via Instagram DMS actually. But I want to have multiple options for people to reach me. So on my website in the contact page, it says you can DM me from the website, you can DM me on Instagram, you can DM me on Telegram, There's a forum. Some people like to just work over e-mail and I can do emails. If you want me to give you a call, I'll give you a call. If you want me to text you back, leave your number and I'll text you back. So there are a lot of different ways for people to go in one, but the key thing here is I reserve going one-on-one, doing one-on-one chats with people for prospective new clients and my existing clients. So that’s something that I always wanted, but I'm starting to enforce a little bit more and we'll come back to why I'm doing that in like a little bit. But basically by being a client of just Joey Travels, you will basically be AVIP and you are the ones where I reserve my focus and time and effort on to have like one-on-one DMS, one-on-one text messages, and one-on-one phone call. So you basically have like a dedicated one-on-one line to me #3 the things you didn't even think about. A lot of first time cruisers because they've never been on a cruise before. They don't have any cruise experience. There are certain things that you're not going to naturally know about if you never tried something before. The prime example I've gone here is motion sickness. So actually helping someone book their first cruise recently and we were talking about if they had a particular type of room they wanted or had an eye on. So on most cruise ships, there are different categories of rooms. The main categories being an interior room that has like, no windows, no view, just walls. And then you can have an ocean view room where you have a window that doesn't open, but it looks out to the outside, usually out into the ocean. And then you have an ocean balcony, which is a balcony with a sliding door. You can open a sliding door, You can walk out to the balcony and it faces the ocean. OK, so those are the three main categories.

And for this person, they said, oh, they wanted an interior room. OK, sure, that's fine. And then I asked them about if they were sensitive to motion sickness. And then they said, oh, that's why I wanted to book an interior room because I don't think I'm sensitive motion sickness, but like just in case. And that's why I wanted to book interior room. And that's where I went in and actually gave them a little extra information. If you might be prone to motion sickness, you do not want to book interior room. Motion sickness is caused by the mismatch between what your inner ear feels and what your eyes perceive. So your inner ear is used by your body to perceive motion. If what you see is just stillness, but your inner ear is perceiving that there's motion, that mismatch, your eyes are telling you you're not moving. Your inner ear is telling your brain you are moving. That's what causes or contributes to the motion sickness. So actually being an interior room is actually what you do not want if you are sensitive to motion sickness. What you want is to be able to actually look out. That would be more helpful for someone who might get motion sickness on a ship. So I explained to them and they're like, oh, I have no idea about that. So sometimes it’s the things that you don't even know that's going to affect your booking on a cruise. So for this person, talk to them a little bit more. It doesn't seem like they are particularly sensitive to motion sickness, but I just let them know that if your reason for wanting an interior room is primarily due to a possible sensitivity to motion sickness, This is why that's not really a valid reason. So they're like, oh, I don't know that. So we can actually look at some other room categories now. So we actually didn't in a booking an interior room for that person. So these are sometimes things you don't know where an expert like me, someone who has that experience, I know the right questions to ask if you were to book directly on the Atlantis website, the Atlantis website. So I can ask you any of these questions. OK, So that's number three things you'd even think about #4 picking the right cruise for you. The for you part is the key.

This is another person that reached up to me recently that reached up to me and said I want to book the alert cruise that's coming up in March of next year. That's the big cruise that happens to the beginning of every year, has a reputation all its own for many years now. And a lot of people will want to basically, oh, that's the cruise my friends have been on. That's the one I've been hearing about. That’s the one I want to book. And some of them, they don't even know about the other cruises Atlantis does. So this potential client came up to me and said, hey, I want to book alert for 2027. Great, right?. A normal, you would think, oh, I just booked them on that cruise and it’s done. No, because if you just wanted to book a room on a cruise, I provide so much more than that. So with every single person that contacts me, no matter what their request is or how they come up to me, if they're confused or they can't sort of know what they want, I'm always talking to them. With this particular client, they ended up not booking the alert. They are now looking at the San Diego, Mexico cruise that's coming up this November. So all the Atlantis cruises have a different vibe and I usually don't like to just blindly book people onto a cruise that they think is the best for them. Sometimes I can tell that, OK, they said they have friends that have went on it, They've talked to their friends of what that experience is like, and then they want to book it. And that's fine. But again, I'm going to ask you to write questions, even the questions you don't even know should be asked. And if in this particular case, it actually worked out that, you know what, they thought they wanted the Allure, but it wasn't going to be the best cruise for them for like a few different reasons. So that person ended up now looking at the San Diego, Mexico cruise. And the more we talked about the differences between the two cruises, the more they were convinced that for what their preferences and what they were looking for, the Allure was not going to be a good cruise for them. You don't want to just blindly put down like 2, three, $4000 on a cruise just booking on a website and not talking to anyone and then getting on a cruise and then be like, oh, this is maybe not what I expected. OK, so all the cruises have a different vibe. That's something that a lot of potential new cruisers don't understand. And this is where I come in and I want to make sure you're going to spend your hard earned cash on the right cruise for you #5 picking the best room, category and location for you.

So I talked about the example of someone running interior room because they thought it was going to be better for motion sickness. And I told them, no, no, no, no, no. So I will do work. If you know that you want an ocean balcony because you know you want an ocean balcony, 100% fine, let's go. But for a lot of new cruisers, because they are new to cruises, they don't always understand, oh, they're all these different categories of rooms. Like I said, there's usually an interior room and then there are ocean view rooms and they're ocean balcony rooms. So I always talk to new cruisers just to make sure they understand the options that they have. But it has a big impact on the pricing as well. So usually I'll almost always pick a quiet location. I haven't come across anyone that would want a location that is in a noisier, busier part of the ship. Atlantis Cruises, they use several different parts of the ship for different parties. So those are the party venues and I want to make sure I don't place you near those. Pricing obviously could be very different depending on the type of room that you're on. So an example is I was talking to someone wanted to book a cruise and I asked them, do you have a preference for wear on the ship?. I'm going to find a quiet location regardless, but do you have a certain preference to be closer to some of the amenities on the ship?. Maybe you want to be closer to like the gym or the spa or the pool deck or whatever. But sometimes people, a popular one is the pool deck. Sometimes people know, oh, I will want to go to the pool all the time. In this particular case, this person said, I want to be kind of close or have the most convenient access to the buffet, OK. And I know all the ships that I book and I know that, OK, if I put them near the rear set of the elevators, if they just take that up, that opens right to the entrance of the buffet. So that's how we came up with a room location for that particular client, right?. And that's a particular preference that they have.

If you were to just try to book a cruise or the Atlantis website by yourself, you could theoretically like look up and download the deck plans and flip through this massive PDF. And but like, you can just talk to me and I already know. OK. And also note where all the possible party venues are that Atlantis might host the parties. If you just download the deck plans, it doesn't tell you that. So picking the right room category and location for you, if you didn't know any of this and you picked a room where it happened to be close to one of the venues that Atlantis uses for the after hours parties, those don't start until like 3:00 or 4:00 AM. Do you want your room to be on top of the after hours venue?. And then there’s boom, boom, boom at 3:00 AM, four AM when you might be sleeping. That's not pleasant. That's another reason to go with just Joey Travels. You'll never find that on the website. OK, number six, looking up the latest inventory and availability. OK, So I always regularly check the availability of the various categories of the rooms on all the ships that Alanis currently has on sale. So I already have usually a good idea just at any given moment when someone is talking to me about a particular cruise they're interested in. That's where, again, based on talking with the client, understanding their preferences and their wants and needs, then I'll have a better idea. OK, maybe you want to be at the front of the ship because you want to be closer to the pool deck and the pool deck at the front, you're looking for an ocean balcony room. OK. I'm going to go into the Atlanta system and let's see what kind of inventory there is.

Why is inventory information important at this stage?. Because it’s not always obvious. This way you know how quickly you need to move to book a room. I'll give you one example. Literally a couple of days ago a client I was talking to about AUS based sailing. Later they came back to me and said, oh I also want to go onto the Athens to Venice cruise. That cruise is sailing July 5th, so we are exactly 2 months away now. And already in the back of my head, I already knew. That's over 90% full right now because I did a check on it and I knew that not all the room categories are available because it's pretty full. So I instantly already knew, OK, if that's what you want to book, we have to move very quickly because it will likely probably sell out. Even if it doesn't sell out, there are not that many good rooms left because, yeah, you think, OK, there's 10% of the rooms that might be available, right?. All the good room locations are probably gone. All the less expensive rooms are probably gone. This is what happens when you book at the last minute for a very popular cruise. So I already told them, OK, if you want to book this, these are the room categories that are still available. This is the pricing, but you have to move quickly because the rooms are going to get snapped up. Another example is the San Diego Mexo cruise that I briefly mentioned that just went a public sale like one or two weeks ago. If you go listen to the last podcast that I did and I went through all of the upcoming Atlantis cruises that just went on a public sale because it just went on a public sale. A lot of rooms are still available, right?. And that's where you know what, if someone is like iffy, they're not like ready to commit right away. That's where I can tell them this crew just went on sale. We've determined that an ocean balcony is your ideal room type for this cruise. Ocean Balconies is not going to sell out in like the next 2-3 months. You don't have to rush. If you want to sleep on it for like a day, a week, a couple weeks, that's completely fine. So that's why you kind of want to know what the inventory is like. Because if you need to move quickly to get the type of room on the cruise that you want, because the inventory is low and it's selling quickly, that's useful information for you to know so that you know you can't doddle with it. And if you just look at the Atlantis website, you're not going to get an idea what that is.

So that is reason #6 reason #7 exploring the different payment options. And a lot of people I talked to, they don't know about the payment options that Atlantis offers because Atlantis doesn't really advertise them, is buried in the terms and conditions. Good luck reading that. And I know it because I booked myself and other people onto Atlantis cruises. So there are typically four different ways you can pay for a cruise and that's just what Atlantis offers. A lot of people do not know that you do not need the full money or even most of the money of the cruise upfront. You just need like 2 to $400.00 usually at the time of making the booking to secure the reservation. And the rest you can pay overtime until two or three months before departure. So that's something that people don't know. And what I also do for some clients that want to know, like the detailed numbers is I can do a detailed estimate of, OK, for this particular cruise, if you're going to book on this day with this specific room category, this is the exact cost and this is the estimated payment plans of what Atlantis offers. So like this is how much you will put in as the initial deposit at the time of booking. And then this is how much your monthly payments are going to be. I could do detailed payment plan estimates for those of you that are interested. And you're not going to get that booking yourself on the Atlantis website. Reason #8 is I'm going to walk you through the entire booking process. Part of this is I'm going to read the fine print out loud. For example, on some of the Atlantis cruises, they have promotional rates and it's not super obvious what the promotion rates are because they don't have this big giant banner that says this is a promotional slash discount rate. But if I'm working with a client, they're looking at a cruise where one of the promotional rates are available. The pricing is obviously cheaper, but I tell them, hey, there's this promotional rate, but here's what you get or here are the things that are different. Usually you do not get to pick your room location, Atlanta to pick it for you. Like a few weeks before the cruise. It’s probably going to be in a noisier part of the ship. You might not even be able to pick the room type that you won't be able to pick between an interior room or an ocean view or an ocean balcony. The balcony might be smaller on some of those rooms, the view might be obscured. You might be looking at a lifeboat instead of looking at the ocean. So things like that. You're not going to get a company reading out the fine print like that. But anytime where it's a possibility with a client that they're looking at one of these promotion rates with the fine print, I basically say to fine print out loud upfront. And that's just part of the booking process when you're going through the different rates.

All right #9 this kind of one-on-one white glove VIP service that I've talked about so far, how I said, OK, I only go one-on-one with potential clients and my existing clients. That's not just during the booking. This guidance that I have and all this advice I have to give, it continues after the booking. It’s not just I'm here to book your cruise and I'm done. This is not how just Joey Travels works. It’s not really a great model. There’s going to be a lot of like follow up advice and tips between when you actually make the booking and before you set sail. One example is the Just Joey Travels guide to the cruises. So I made that for the Symphony cruise this past February. That was my first crack at it. So it's basically for that one, it was this PDF that was like a comprehensive, like lots of information, like there’s a packing checklist and packing advice, things that you cannot bring on the ship. What the policy was to bring on alcohol and like drinks and things like that. There’s a section about embarkation day. The thing is you need to know how to get to the port. What if you're flying into Miami, like things like that. What are some of the eateries that are on board?. What are some of the bars?. Lots and lots of information, right?. That just Joey Travel's guide. I did it for a Symphony in February. I did it for the LA Mexico cruise. That was last month in April. I just finished the initial version for the Athens to Venice cruise. That’s July 5th and I'm going to have those for pretty much most, if not all the future Atlantis cruises. And currently I will make them available to the public two to four weeks before the cruise. But for this Med cruise, I'm about to send an e-mail to a client that have booked on that Med cruise. They're going to get that guy a full 60 days before they set sail. So that's one of the advantages of booking with just Jewelry Travels. I'm not just helping you pick the right cruise, pick the right room with the booking process. You're going to get my tips and advice that you're not going to get from some website between when you do the booking and all the way until you board the cruise. I also do these things. I'm starting to formalize having what I call the 321 emails, which is at 3 months before departure. These are the things you need to know right now. And at two months, I'll send you another e-mail that's like, OK, we're two months away to your cruise. These are the things you start looking at and then we're one month away from the cruise now and you start looking at that. I'm already kind of doing that for my clients, but I'm having a new system that I'm working with that has a much more organized e-mail capabilities, if you will. But that’s just some of the things you would expect from me. After you've made the booking, After the initial booking, you're still going to get that high level white glove VIP guidance from just Joey Troubles. You're not going to get that when you book directly with Atlantis.

The final reason is I'm going to continue to be your cruise concierge beyond the booking, like I said, but basically for life for as long as you are a client of Just Joey Travels. You can DM me, you can message me, you can call me and I will be there for you for whatever travel cruise related question that you have. For example, there was someone that I booked onto the LA my school cruise last month. And even during embarkation, I was messaging with him just to make sure because he has some questions about like the parking and about the priority check in access that he purchased beforehand. So I was able to answer his questions so well after the booking. I'm still helping you as long as you're a client of Just Joy Travels. And if you make your first alliance booking with me, you become a Just Joy Travels client for life for the rest of your Atlantis bookings. And I will continue to offer all of these advantages for you for every subsequent booking that you have. Doesn't matter if it’s a booking related thing. Doesn't matter if it’s like getting ready for your next cruise after you've booked it or even on embarkation day. You have some last minute questions even when you're on the cruise. If you want to DM me, I was to answer you. Basically, when you're a client of just three travels, you just DM me whenever you want. Text me whenever you're in, DM me when you want and I help you. So that type of like VIP level concierge service, you're not going to get that from Atlantis. I'm not throwing Atlantis under the bus, but Atlantis is a small company. They have like 8 or 10 full time employees. They do have a phone number and an e-mail address you can reach out to, but they are there primarily for sales and support of the bookings. They're not there to be like, oh, what's the parking situation like?. You know, some of these like nitpicky travel advice type questions. That’s not why Atlantis has their phone lines staffed and you can't DM them so they don't have like Adm facility.

So those are the 10 reasons why you should book with Just Joy Travels. I'm just looking down at my podcast recorder. I've talked about this for about I think 2025 minutes now. So quickly I am going to talk about situations and times where I'm going to recommend you not book with me. And this doesn't apply to everyone. The times when I will very nicely encourage someone to book their next Atlantis vacation not through me through some other method is if they are not booking their very first Atlantis vacation. So in the case of you travelled with Atlantis before, you've been on an Atlantis cruise, that means you book that cruise in some way, shape or form. You booked it directly on the Atlantis website or maybe you went with a different travel agent. When you book directly on the Atlantis website and that's how you made your first Atlantis booking, no one gets paid a Commission. Let's say you did your first Atlantis cruise last year and you booked on the Atlantis website. That's great. If you come to me now and you say, hey Joey, I want to give you my business, I want to put my next, my second Atlantis cruise with you. I won't get the Commission from you to be really frank, because I'm a one person shop. I only have a limited amount of resources. I don't have limited time and effort. And as you can probably tell, I'm very focused on giving my clients like a really high touch this like concierge level, VIP level experience because that has always been what I wanted to provide. Just a really excellent service, really something really tailored to make people feel like, wow, this person is going above and beyond because I'm kind of just Joey travels to be able to provide that really high level service takes a little bit more time and effort, which I'm perfectly willing to devote to my clients. But that means I need to make sure I'm wise where I spend my time and effort. And to be really honest, I'm not going to spend time and effort booking someone where I make no Commission and no money off of that booking.

A lot of the times when people come up to me, if it's not obvious initially, I'll ask them, oh, is this your first time travelling with Volantis?. And if your answer is yes, I'm going to be more than happy to help you for all the reasons I listed before you get all those advantages. And I get paid because if I book someone on the 1st Atlantification, I get their Commission and they become my client. So if you booked your previous Atlantification from the Atlantis website, continue doing that if that's where you feel comfortable. And this is where this podcast, OK, the Gay Cruise and Travel podcast, the Gay cruise and travel community that I told you that I'm now launching on Telegram and Facebook. This is where I have my YouTube videos that has tons of advice. This is where even if you're not a client of just Joey Travels, and this being one example of a reason why I'm not going to take you on as a client and I'm not going to do the booking for you because I'm not getting paid, you can still get my tips and advice. If you have a question you want to ask, you can do it on the community. You can post on the Telegram or Facebook and I will answer because I'm monitoring those. You can listen to this podcast and get regular updates on all the Atlantis cruises. But I do like updates when there’s like a new cruise that’s about to go on sale, there’s like some sort of promotional sale that they're running. I do episodes for those here. And those are the ways that people who are not my clients, they can still benefit from just Joey Travel's. They can still benefit from me.

So that's why I said I was going to come back to that. And this is how it kind of comes full circle. The other situation where I'm not going to help someone with their booking and they're not going to become a client are people who have booked with a different travel agent. So I just told you if I booked someone on their first Atlantis vacation, they become my client of my travel agency of just Joey Travels. If someone booked their first Atlantification with a different travel advisor, it works the same way. You booked it like John Smith, whoever. OK, you made your first Atlantis booking with John Smith who's another travel advisor and they also sell Atlantis vacations. You are now their client. So John Smith should be able to help you with all your Atlantis travel needs, just like how I help my clients with all their Atlantis travel needs. In that situation. Sometimes I do have this route. Oh, I booked it so and so, but now I want to give you my business. I am not here to poach clients from other travel agents. If you happen to still be a client of theirs, you should go to them and they would be able to help you, just like how I help my clients. That’s not a super common situation. I found myself having to explain to people. I do occasion every so often have someone come to me that says, Hey, I booked with this other person, but like I love your YouTube videos or like I want all the advantages of just Joey travels. I want to make my next booking with you and also like, hey, you can make my Commission and I'll get your advice and I get to work with you. But I have to nicely explain to them your link to them and not me. Therefore I don't get the commissions. So I'm gonna, I don't say no like that. But basically I say go to your travel agent, please. You're their client. And I'm not here to push other people's clients. So that’s the other reason why I might not help you.

OK, Ultimately, this is all about getting paid. I do a lot to help people who are not my clients. Like I said, all the YouTube videos I've been making for like a decade now, the Gay Cruise and Travel podcast, what you're listening to now, there have been dozens of episodes, and I put out a new episode, a new podcast just about every week, and it's got tons of advice, OK, Everybody on the Internet can access those things. Everybody can go on YouTube. Anyone can listen to a podcast. Now I'm also launching the Gay Cruise and Travel community where you get to ask me questions is nearly as good as being able to DM me as someone who's not a client of mine. But when you post on there, I do monitor them and I won't answer. Okay, you can say, hey, Joey, I'm thinking about this cruise and I'm blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Or like, hey Joey, can you give me some tips for like solo cruisers?. Like you can post whatever questions you want onto the communities and I will answer. Anyone can access those. You don't have to be my client, you don't have to be some other person's client. You could be anyone on the Internet and you can take advantage of those three things. So that’s how I'm helping everyone, no matter if they are new cruiser, not a new cruiser. That’s not if they are booked or not booked, that’s not they booked with someone else, they booked with me or whoever. There’s a lot of resources I'm providing, OK. I just have to save my high touch one-on-one VIP level effort of service or the people that are paying the bills.

But I think you guys can understand. But another common question I get is how are you making money?. That question comes up more than I initially expected, but that comes up like probably with 50% of the people that are I talk to that are potential new clients and I explain to them if I book a brand new cruiser, if I book your first Atlantification, I get a Commission from Atlantis. You know me running this business. Yes, I want to help people and that’s why I have to YouTube, I have to podcast. I have this community. I want to help everyone The way I help my clients though, it’s just that next level of concierge VIP, one-on-one service. That was always the intent with just Joey Travels. I will only do that if I get paid for them. It’s only with my clients that I get the Commission that I get paid. And there you go. I think you guys can actually understand because a lot of you asked me how do you get paid?. Like what, what fees do you charge?. Like you guys understand just joy travel is the business and you are cognizant that you know, I need to make money in some way, shape or form. So it’s commissions, that’s how I make it.

All right. So I hope I've convinced all of you, especially those that are thinking about going on your first Alanis cruise. These are just the top 10 reasons. If you give me enough time, I could probably think of another like 5 or 10 reasons you should book with just Joey Travels. But those are like the top 10 reasons. I'm going to take a little bit more time and formalize it into written words and I'll put it onto my website. But at least as like the first step, I want to do this podcast so that the information is out there and you can hear directly from me with real world examples from some clients of mine why you should go with just till we travel. Don't just book on the website. Come to me for your very first Atlantis vacation. All right, we will end it there again, check out all the links. It's now this one URL will have links for everything. Just Joey Travis related. Just Joey travels dot link, dot LINK. It is down below in the description. Check out the new gay crews and travel community on Facebook and Telegram. You already listened to the podcast, so you're obviously subscribed to the podcast. Yeah. And I've got Telegram groups for the San Diego Mexico cruise coming up. Please go join that Telegram group if you're thinking about going on that cruise or you're already booked. And I've got the Facebook groups for several of the upcoming Atlantis cruises as well. All right, that's all the plugs I've got. And until next time, bye y'all.