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Abboard the Celebrity Solstice in Port Everglades, this is Cruise Radio.

I'm Matt Baskford.

And I'm Doug Parker.

Follow us on Twitter at Cruise Radio, and sign up for our newsletter at CruiseRadio.net. For weeks now, Stuart Shiran, the Cruise Guy, has been talking up the celebrity ships and was aboard the celebrity eclipse, the brand new eclipse. And we just had to check it out for ourselves. So we came down here to see and experience the celebrity solstice. And as always, Stuart Sheron, the cruise guy, joins us.

You can find them at cruise guy.com.

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Stuart Sheron, thanks for getting us on board, man.

Matt, Doug, I'm sure you guys are not disappointed with what you've seen and experienced because this

really is one of the most magnificent ships for most people anywhere in the world, whether you like

small ships, big ships, this is definitely a ship that's not going to disappoint.

It's noticeably more elegant.

I mean, even from the exterior and then, of course, when you first walk in, the design is modern and sleek and tight and clean and really, really a beautiful ship.

And the people were everywhere we went.

Everyone greeted us with a hello and enjoy your crews, whether they knew we were sailing or not.

And that's just the feeling.

They try to make you feel at home. So it may be 122,000 tons. Believe it or not, this ship holds 2,850 double occupancy. They said that's full. There's over 3,000 people on the ship. And did it feel crowded? No, it doesn't feel like it at all, especially in the dining areas where other ships here, there's a little elbows and pushing and shoving kind of thing but there's

fighting for tables right none of that going on here and as you mentioned the crew uh so nice we're

actually going to talk to quite a number of the uh crew here on today's show from the cruise director

hotel director food and beverage director and the executive chef and many others so it's going to be a

really cool show today and Doug parker. Yeah, I appreciate that. The first, from the moment we stepped on board the ship, the first word that I have thought, elegance is all it is. This is my first among celebrity, of course. Yeah, and it's just, like Stuart was saying, everyone greets you with a smile. The champagne and mimosis when we got on the ship, that was nice. It's elegant, but it's unpretent was saying everyone greets you with a smile the champagne and mimosis when we got

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