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From the Cruise 1, Mobile Shaddeas aboard Holland America's MS. Eurodam, I'm Matt Baskford.

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We're on a seven-day Eastern Caribbean cruise.

We hit Grand Turk first, then Puerto Rico.

We just left St. Thomas.

We're going to spend a day at sea and then end up at Half Moon K.

This ship is very sleek.

It was launched July of 2008. It's one of their signature class ships. There's only one more ship like that, and that is the new Amsterdam right now. The ship, she's 935 feet long and holds just over 2,100 passengers. We're on deck 11 right now in the crow's nest, surrounded by a lot of the very important crew members. We're going to talk to the hotel manager. Also, we talked to the captain before we left St. Thomas this morning, so we'll play that interview a little bit later on. But first, the guy who keeps things really rolling along here with all the entertainment, the cruise director, Jason Venter. Welcome to Cruise Radio. Thank you very much. Glad to be here. Jason, let me ask you, where are you from? Portland, Oregon. How does one go from Portland to the Eurodamp? Well, Holland America Lines based out of Seattle. And so when I was graduating from college, I figured, hey, let's get out of town, travel around for six months, and that was almost nine years ago. What separates Holland America from the other cruise lines?

One of my favorite parts about cruising now is that each cruise line really does operate in their

own little niche.

You know, every cruise line does something unique and something special.

I truly believe.

Holland America line is really, truly still in the people business.

You know, we have smaller ships. We're more

dedicated to service. I think we're more dedicated to the atmosphere of 101 and the atmosphere

of pampering you. And one of my sayings always on ships is we don't want you to leave this

cruise vacation feeling like you need another. We want you to leave your vacation feeling as if

you've vacationed.

And I think we do a great job of that. How in America has the Explore Our World, food,

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