Travel with The Boys

Crochet Cruises, developed in 2013, has been ‘Hook’n The High Seas’ since our inaugural crochet cruise in 2014. Eighteen crochet cruises have happened.

Hosted by Michael Sellick & Daniel Zondervan, aka Mikey & Diva Dan from The Crochet Crowd. Crochet Cruises was retired in March 2022 ready for the new Travel with The Boys concept for 2023.

Up and Coming Travel Adventures Links

Sherry Leybovich, Our Agent

Mystery Adventure in the USA – SOLD OUT. Please email our agent for more details and pricing. It’s a complete all-inclusive mystery, and you won’t know where you are going until you get there. This trip is maxed out at 50 guests, so we will all be on one coach bus departing from the Airport Hotel to the mystery location. This trip is sponsored by Yarnspirations.com.
1. Everyone will be flying in on April 30, 2023, to the pre-hotel to gather.
2. Everyone will be going to the location on May 1, 2023, and will depart to fly home on Sunday, May 7, 2023.
3. There are no structured workshops.
4. This event is sold out, but if you are interested, you can message our agent to put you on the waiting list in case someone cancels.
Outback 2-Week Adventure in Australia Mikey and Daniel are not on this adventure.
Knotical Cruise from Australia to New Zealand and Back Mikey Only. You can still book if there are cabins through our agent, but pricing is expected to change. Book asap to hold your cabin.
Christmas Markets on the Rhine River – Jingle Balls Tour Both Mikey and Daniel
Spain Intensive 10 Night Starting In Barcelona Spain – Begins Oct 27, 2024

See below for more details.

New Beginning

With the Crochet Cruises behind us and the crochet conferences on the ships are now put aside, we have always wanted to enjoy a less stressed vacation to sit and gossip with you instead of being ‘ON’ all the time. Michael and I have, over the years with the crochet cruises, enjoyed ourselves so much by just having casual conversations stitching and b*&^hing with lots of laughter in the background. PLUS, we also learned a heck (hell of) a lot of fun crochet gossip.

Those that got to know us over the years would say we are just everyday people. We have feelings and get exhausted from being ‘ON’ all the time. When we do sit and gossip, we do swear a little. Oops…but we are having fun. It is exhausting trying to be perfect when the world is expecting us to do so, and yet the world itself will never be.

More Personalization than Mass Entertainment

We love cruising, but we also love land adventures as well. Travel with The Boys now could be anywhere and anything. A cruise, villa, ski resort, or train ride through the orient. There is a whole world to explore. Cruise ships only take you to a small piece of that adventure and usually at a less appealing shipping yard. As Anthony Bourdain once mentioned, “it’s all Mass entertainment.” Three to six thousand people will get the same treatment. We are thirsting for more of an adventure. We would love for you to join us so you can meet new friends, CROCHET and shop for yarn in new locations worldwide. If this excites you, then come and be part of Travel With The Boys.

Does this mean no more cruises? Of course not. Sherry, our travel agent, and I are working on some cruises too. We see many more options for cruise ships and companies than ever before. AND… a lot of new ones! We want to try them out. Imagine jumping on a National Geographic cruise and seeing Canada’s Arctic or sailing through some of the smaller ports of the Mediterranean. You see, there are many more options with various costs similar to what the Crochet Cruises cost today.

Bring Your Yarn

What about all the sponsored yarn? Because we no longer teach and host a conference, we no longer have the stress and additional work to provide yarn for our trips. Shipping pallets of yarn is an enormous cost and is limited to where it can go. For Travel with The Boys, you can bring your projects with you. We might even have a theme, and we can all work on something together for charity.

Current Tours

What do you have coming up?

Now that COVID vaccines are out and restrictions are slowly lifted, travel will commence with eager anticipation. Here at home, we are now looking ahead. We don’t want to push our luck. We believe that COVID is here to stay, it’s a dark reality, and no one will be able to predict if countries will open or close. Who thought gas prices were going to skyrocket to the rear? RIGHT!?

Christmas Markets on Ama Waterways River Cruises. Starting on Nov 30th, 2023

Travelling in the first week of December 2023, we are on a river cruise from Switzerland to the Netherlands, visiting Christmas Markets along the River Rhine. Many of our traditions are European based, and to see them at the markets during the season will light up and be so much fun. Our plan on the ship is to make Christmas decorations for our personal Travel with The Boys Tree on the ship itself plus more crochet holiday ideas. We have booked three-quarters of the ship. There is still room, but we are 70% sold out. A Christmas celebration with love, yarn and friends!

Travel with The Boys – Christmas Markets on the Rhine River – Jingle Balls Tour

Australia and New Zealand – UPDATED

May 29, 2022

You might have heard about Australia and New Zealand. Mikey will be attending the cruise portion of Australia to New Zealand. It is better to go with people you may know or even as a group of naughty crocheters. If you want to crochet and have this dream vacation, talk to Sherry and see if you can make it happen. It’s always so much fun.

Boys Not Included – The Outback 2-Week Adventure in Australia
Mikey Only – Knotical Cruise from Australia to New Zealand and Back

Spain Intensive 10-Night Cruise Barcelona to Lisbon

Announced September 9, 2022

Join The Boys in Europe on a 10-Night Getaway aboard Azamara Onward luxury cruise ship. Beginning in Barcelona, Valencia, Cartegena, Malaga, Gibraltar, Seville, and Lisbon. This cruise ship is new as of 2022. A small cruise ship designed with comfort and exquisite relaxing travel. If you would like to arrive earlier, there is also a pre-cruise tour option for Barcelona and a post-cruise tour option in Lisbon, Portugal.

This is your travelling hotel with early arrivals at the locations and late departures. An overnight experience in Seville, Spain. Daniel is looking forward to this location the most. Azamara backs itself up through the canal and docks directly in the old city, so your hotel is directly in the middle of the action so you can walk off the ship and begin your journey.

Unless the sale is pulled, an additional 20% off will be taken off the listed cruise price from now until the end of the year. The prices shown in our sign-up are the full price. Sherry, our agent, will deduct the 20% at the time of your booking. If you decide to do a balcony or higher cabin, you will get 20% off and additional $300 shipboard credit to spend, plus free WIFI for one device per cabin.

Bring your yarn and come tour with us.

REVIEW TOUR or BOOK TOUR

If you have any questions, please contact our agent via Email. When you sign up on the form, your credit card will not be charged until our agent speaks to you to ensure you have booked properly. Necessary information is collected, such as meal preferences, accessibility issues and more.

Agent Contact

Sherry Leybovich ECCS, LCS, CTA. Sherry is in Florida & works on Eastern Standard Time Hours.

Toll Free 888-464-1827 ext 101

Local (Florida), 813-657-0844, fax 813-657-0854

Sherry Leybovich

Email: [email protected]

How do we sign up for Travel With The Boys?

Right now, check in with The Crochet Crowd Website. We have a section called Travel with the Boys.It will have the latest information and it will always be updated when new information is announced. You can also contact Sherry, her information is at the bottom of this blog. If you wish, she can add you to her emailing list so you can get the fastest updates.

We also have a Mystery Crochet Adventure. What is that? We give you clues, you decide. More Information in the future will be provided on the Travel with the Boys Facebook Page.

To help us more, we created a casual survey to get an idea of what you are looking for in a vacation. If you love surveys help us out. ALL information is kept confidential and that information is only for us to hear what sparks your interest in a vacation

Help us out: Do the Survey

Will there be limitations?

When we think of travel, many automatically gravitate towards large vacation resorts. Still, there are so many more little vacations that can be experienced all over the globe where they are less known and almost little hidden gems. With many of the little gems, some limitations and expectations must be altered.

For some of the locations we have planned and will be shared publicly, there might be limits on the number of guests. Though we wish we could have a large group as we had before, we are looking at personalization more than overwhelming our senses with a huge crowd of crocheters. We want it more intimate for the group sizing.

If there are any, having mobility issues is a strong factor in not booking the adventure. Usage of walkers, canes or scooters will restrict a guest. We cannot stress this enough. Think about it, can you use a scooter to go up a Himalayan cliffside or push a walker over stones and boulders as you visit someone’s home? It’s not to be exclusive but to be realistic to experience unique adventures where the adventure isn’t a massive tourist location. Things such as the following should be considered:

Ability to walk over cobblestones and uneven surfaces.
Usage of ancient stairs that may not include a railing to hang onto.
Ability to carry your luggage up and down stairs without an elevator assist.
Ability to use ladders going up and down.
Ability to walk extended paths or up and down steep slopes.
Ability to step overboard a ship and onto a dingy, smaller boat for transporting to land.

We are used to extended washroom facilities and space. Some locations may be limited in spacing and may not be something you are used to. It’s focused on the experience, and some washrooms may just be a water closet. We could end up staying in a castle or village on the seaside. We could be on a yacht or catamaran moving from location to location.

This is considered a vacation, and we invite you to come with us. Seeing this is a vacation, we will not be doing conference-style activities. Meet socially to hang out, maybe hook or just stargaze. We are not looking for guests who are chronic complainers but are open-minded to new adventures. Expect the unexpected and roll with it. Expect sudden changes on the fly and be flexible.

You may be expected to change the locations of the hotels during the vacation to shift our group from one location to another.

In collaboration with Sherry Leybovich, franchise owner of Cruise Planners™ based in Florida as our partner in the event planning. The Crochet Cruises has become a staple event travel dedicated to the art of crochet and, more importantly, the crochet community for an extended travel vacation.