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🗓️ 23 February 2011

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week we are joined by Jim Work and Bob Miller, both Luxury Cruise Counselors who were recently on the inaugural cruise Oceania Marina. Hear all about the ship from their point of view.

Stewart Chiron the Cruise Guy joins us with this weeks Cruise News. Hear about the new port in Falmouth, Jamaica, Savannah, Georgia's port movement, hear about the ships delayed because of the gulf-coast fog last week, and more on the pirate attacks.

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more.
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0:12.6	From the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida, I'm Matt Baskford.
0:16.3	And I'm Doug Parker.
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0:19.7	Last week, we were in Nassau, Bahamas,
0:21.8	hanging around the brand new luxury cruise ship, the Oceana Marina. And we met up with luxury cruise counselors, Jim Work, and Bob Miller. We're going to talk to them in just a bit. But first, Stuart Sheron, the cruise guy, joins us. What's up, Stuart? Hey, Matt, hey, Doug? You were in Falmouth, Jamaica last week, right?
0:18.7	I was.
0:19.0	Tell us about that.
0:20.3	Well, I'll tell you, I flew in the day before. joins us. What's up, Stuart? Hey, Matt, hey, Doug? You were in Falmouth, Jamaica last week, right?
0:37.9	I was. Tell us about that. Well, I will tell you, I flew in the day before, so I got a chance to see the town with final preparations. And, you know, if I was Royal Caribbean and I was on the ground making the call, I would have said they're still not ready. Right. But I will tell you the next morning when we returned, which was just as the ship was entering
0:59.5	the channel and backing up, it was a completely different experience.
1:05.1	They had police everywhere, and it was limited access into the port area.
1:11.9	And a lot of people don't realize this isn't like a big town.
1:14.6	This is a town that began in the late 1700s, 1769.
1:21.5	And the courthouse there was from 1851, and not much has changed there since the mid-1800s.
1:27.5	Wow.
1:28.1	So this was kind of like, you know, back to the future where, you know, the Voyager of the
1:32.4	seas was the Delorean.
1:35.3	And, you know, all of a sudden we're being transported back 242 years.
1:40.4	And what was really moving was the, I mean, thousands of Jamaicans came from, you know,
1:47.0	Falmouth surrounding areas and other parts of Jamaica. The rooftops, the courthouse was mobbed,
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