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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2010

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Andy, CEO of Special Needs at Sea, talks about how cruise lines have to be in compliance with the American Disabilities Act.

Rene Klusek and her husband Rich, recently celebrated their 1 years anniversary aboard the Emerald Princess back on July 5. She chats with us about her trip.

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0:06.8

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0:11.3

From the Cruise One Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I'm Matt Baskford.

0:15.0

And I'm Doug Parker. Be sure to follow us on Twitter at Cruise Radio and sign up for our Facebook fan page, Facebook.com slash cruise radio. On this show, CEO of special needs at sea.com will join us and listener Renee Klusick. She will be talking to us. What's great about Renee is they see, she's been listening for a while. Uh-huh. And she emailed us. She emailed comments at cruiseradio.net. She told us all about her cruise aboard the Emerald Princess, and so, yeah, we've got her on the show. She's on the show, and you can do the same thing. Comments at cruiseradio.com. Or call 866-874-7957. But first, Stuart, she-round the cruise guy, joins us. Hey, Stuart. Hey, Matt, hey, Doug? Hey, man.

0:54.4

We touched upon this last week.

0:55.9

Back to Brownsville, Texas.

0:58.1

In the middle of nowhere.

0:59.5

I think it's a very important story.

1:02.4

Another story literally just came out about this in the Brownsville Herald, where it turns out that they it turns out that uh... they do they've already done a

1:13.7

study on this

1:14.6

they've already spent and they've already uh... wasted twenty five thousand dollars

1:19.4

boy they're coming back for more

1:22.1

because they've got another group of consultants and this study is actually

1:25.7

expected to cost them $48,000.

1:28.3

Oh man.

1:29.3

And it's, believe it or not, I mean, we could save them a whole lot of money because this is expected

1:34.3

to be completed by the spring of 2011. This is going to take them six months to figure

1:39.3

this out.

1:40.3

Now, I understand that they want to have the goal is to be able to make presentations to cruise line owners and operators,

1:48.0

highlighting Brownsville as a viable cruise line port based on the conclusions of the latest study.

1:54.8

This isn't hard, guys, because we talked last week about, Brownsville is 265 miles southeast or southeast of Austin, Texas.

2:07.1

Okay.

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