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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2011

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Doug just returned from Freeport, so find out all about Freeport, Bahamas and what it's really like down there. Comedian Happy Cole joins us, as well a local conch diver.

Stewart Chiron catches us up on this week's Cruise News.

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more.
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0:21.0	A big welcome back to Doug. You just got off his ship. Thank you. Yeah, I did. Check out Freeport Bahamas. Yeah, Freeport Bahamas has been getting a lot of flack lately saying that it sucks. So I can't wait to hear your review of it. Yeah. A little bit later. It's going to be exciting. Stuart Sheron the cruise guy is here.
0:19.2	Matt, Doug, what's happening?
0:20.5	Hey, man.
0:20.9	What's happening? All right to Falmouth, Jamaica. How was the arrival of the oasis? It was pretty exciting. And there, I mean, throughout the day, there was close to, I'm told, about 40,000 Jamaican showed up.
0:54.3	Wow.
0:56.5	And it was pretty impressive.
0:59.8	You know, we got up the ship, you know, after it docked. And, I mean, they had the bands and, you know, all kinds of dancers and, you know, all kinds of, you know, people welcoming the ship.
1:06.0	The passengers got off onto their tours very, very smoothly.
1:10.2	And then, you know, around 1145 or so, we had the grand opening celebration,
1:16.5	and Richard Fain, the CEO of Royal Caribbean was there with his remarks.
1:21.4	They had various Jamaican ministers as well as the prime minister of Jamaica,
1:26.7	and it was a big event because really what it did is it allowed Jamaica to be able to say,
1:34.2	you know, hey, this project is so successful already for us that it's going to be able to make
1:41.6	improvements for the other two ports, major ports, Montego Bay, and Ocho Rios.
1:47.2	Well, I was going to say you were there, what, a month or a month and a half ago,
1:50.1	has there been much progress since you were there last?
1:52.9	Yes, and the port itself, the buildings are, you know, continuing to come to completion.
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