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Broadcasting from the cruise capital of the world in Miami, Florida.

This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, I'm Matt Bask for Doug.

Is down at the annual Cruise Industry Conference, Cruise Shipping Miami, at the Miami Beach Convention Center.

We'll check in with him in just a moment.

He'll have the latest cruise news coming out of Miami.

Charles Robertson, CEO of American Cruise Lines, will be stopping by.

And editor-in-chief of

CruiseCritic.com will see him as well. All right, Doug, what's up? Joining us now on Cruise Radio, as he does every week at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Stuart Sheer on the Cruise Guy. How are you doing, man? Doug, it is great to see you. A lot of announcements this week. Let's kick it right off. Norwegian cruise lines announced some new details on their Norwegian breakaway.

Yeah, the breakaway is going to have some very unique features. And fans of a night at the Roxbury, you know, the movie, you know, Will Ferrell are going to love this. Why? Well, if you remember the end of the movie where they had that bar that was inside out, it's going to be very reminiscent to what they're going to be doing.

They're going to have the waterfront, so they're going to have open-air boardwalks, they're going

to have restaurants and bars and all kinds of entertainment across three decks, so it's

going to be pretty exciting. And they've taken certain similarities with celebrity with the,

you know, the, on the silhouette and reflection with the,

the grill. You know, so they're taking the dining restaurants, you know, a lot of the

things that, let's say, Carnival has recently announced and put on some innovations onto their

ships where they're making the deck space more of a, more active for their passengers and

to be more utilized. NCL is taking it to another extreme. And let me tell you, I think it's going to make a huge difference for NCL. Their passengers, I think, are going to love it because it's just going to really take what we called on Epic as being an entertainment mecca to a whole other level. And if you want to see a rendering of those new spaces, check it out at cruiseradio.com. I put it up earlier today. Also, Princess Cruz has announced yesterday a couple of new dining experiences.

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