So I was looking at the Smooth Jazz Cruise 2021 because Keiko Matsui lists the 2020 cruise on her tour dates page, and my beautiful wife has been jonesing for a cruise for about a decade now. Unfortunately, the 2020 cruise with Keiko Matsui is sold out, and she does not appear on the 2021 roster.
But, Brian J., aren’t you more of a 70000 Tons of Metal cruise kind of guy? To be honest, they have not announced their 2020 music lineup yet, and I’ve already mentioned this as a possibility to Mrs. Noggle, and she was so hungry for a cruise that she entertained the possibility.
But the Smooth Jazz 2021 Cruise includes a number of artists I wouldn’t mind seeing, including:
- Cindy Bradley, whom I once labeled the second prettiest trumpeter in the world:
- Vanessa Williams:
- Candy Dulfer:
I recognize some of the other names, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to see them.
Given the confluence of the aforementioned circumstances (wife wants a cruise, jazz acts I like to see are on the cruise), I clicked through to the pricing information, and I noted that, in addition to prices that made me go, “Erm,” we have this “guarantee”:
It’s billed as a No Fee Guarantee, but it says it’s really only one fee of $350.
It’s been a while since I took a logic class, but one fee is the direct opposite of no fee.
Ah, well. It’s not as though I was really going to book this cruise. Fortunately for me, my wife does not read this blog and will not be disappointed with this revelation at the end.