RelaxAway Half Moon Cay Opens — and Carnival Gets Breached

<p>The Golden Crew is back from a short hiatus — read: Tom turned 50 and somehow scored a birthday video from Mick Foley himself (all thanks to Jenn, naturally). We kick things off with a brand-new game Madison cooked up: <em>A Free Cruise, But…</em> Trevor, Tom, and Jenn each get their fate dealt, and before it&#39;s over Jenn has adopted an emotional-support seagull named Patricia and Tom is doing the nine-deck bathroom climb forty times. Play it yourself at <a href="games.section29.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">games.section29.com</a> and tell us what outcome you got.</p><p>On the actual news front: Half Moon Cay is now <strong>RelaxAway Half Moon Cay</strong>, complete with a brand-new pier (open as of June 1), a tram around the island, and bars one through six waiting on you — assuming the pier&#39;s short enough to stagger back from. We also dig into the <strong>Carnival data breach</strong> that hit six million people (800,000 of them Texans, and somehow <em>not</em> Trevor, who is furious he can&#39;t join the class action), plus word that Christine Duffy will be aboard the next FSS sailing in February 2027.</p><p>We take a more serious turn to talk about a young woman who lost her legs on a Carnival-approved excursion — a heartbreaking story, and a real reminder to vet your excursions, read the reviews, and never assume &quot;booked through the cruise line&quot; means risk-free. (Credit to cruiseradio.net for the reporting.)</p><p>Then it&#39;s straight back to the chaos: a Reddit legend who swallowed a diamond to smuggle it off the island, an &quot;Entitlement of the Seas&quot; cruise hack that absolutely does not work, and a Weekend at Bernie&#39;s tangent we accept no legal responsibility for. Plus a Speak Pipe from Brando, who&#39;s sailing out of New York to Canada on the Venezia — on purpose, this time.</p><p>Leave us a Speak Pipe at <a href="speakpipe.com/carnivalcruisingpodcastaways " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">speakpipe.com/carnivalcruisingpodcastaways </a>and join the crew in our Facebook group (search <strong>The Podcastaways</strong>). If you made it to the end of this one — congratulations, you survived the show. Print your badge.</p>