Princess Cruise Lines can pitch its Sapphire, and does, by pointing out its routes to Alaska, Canada/New England, the South Pacific and Mexico, its deluxe stateroom amenities, and its size as the largest of the Princess fleet. For us, pitching Darryl Worley is enough.
If you’re asking “Darryl who?” then you need a little country music education. If not, you’re in “our” majority, and all you need to know is that Big Darryl (he’s 6’6”) is appearing nightly on the Princess Sapphire on its May 30-June 6 sailing up the Inside Passage to Skagway. 
Tucson radio station KiiM is offering its listeners a chance to accompany Worley on an Inside Passage “Country Cruise”, with prices that run between $1,078 (inside stateroom) to $1,692 (balcony) to $1,977 (mini-suite). That may seem a little steep until you factor in that it includes a night’s hotel in Seattle, transfers, port charges, government fees and taxes. And you do get Darryl Worley, singing, up to eight times.
Thanks to the Internet, you can qualify as a KiiM listener from anywhere; you don’t have to live in Tucson. You do have to book through a Tucson travel agency — Bon Voyage Travel.
And if you’re asking Darryl Who, here’s what you should know: six albums that sold two million copies, 17 chart hits and signature hits like “Have You Forgotten” – a moving reminder about 9/11 – and “I Miss My Friend”, his first chart-topper. A nugget in his repertoire is “Second Wind” which we listened to him sing in the rain near Victorville, CA, one spring night.
Sold yet? Born into a military family, Worley’s a regular entertaining troops engaged on the other side of the world not, he says, for accolades or publicity but because “I want to do it.” And that’s what people like us think when they hear that he’s singing his way up the Inside Passage on the Sapphire Princess. We want to do it.
We’ve long wondered why cruise lines don’t make sure potential passengers know about celebrity cruises like this — it is, after all, a way to attract people to their ships. Unless you live in Tucson and listen to KiiM, you might never know about this one. Well, until we came along, that is.
That’s it, we’re done.