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Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, I'm Matt Baskford.

Doug Parker is on assignment in Belize on this show.

Oh, we always love having her from the Family Travel Network, Nancy Shredder.

Also, Simon DeVall from Simon Travels.net.

We'll give us his latest review of NCL's Pearl out of Miami.

But first, Stuart, you run the cruise guy.

Hey, Matt.

I want to get into the Bermuda reductions.

The mayor of Hamilton Bermuda claims the failure to keep its cruise ship infrastructure current

has led to some cuts.

Well, I mean, he's actually, you know, it's the first time that a Bermuda official is actually

kind of getting the point with the reductions in ships that have to do a lot with, you know,

overall passenger dissatisfaction, the low ratings that the cruise ship passengers are giving

the cruise lines.

But, you know, Bermuda blames it on, you know, the fact that the cruise lines can't gamble

while they're in port, which up until all these years has never been an issue.

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