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Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, I'm Matt Bousford. And I'm Doug Parker. Check out our Cruise News at CruiseRadio.net. All right, on this show, we're going to talk to Theresa Norton-Massick, editor-in-chief of Vacation Agent Magazine. She was recently on Oceana Cruze's brand-new Riviera. She'll give us a comprehensive review of the ship. Also this week, Scott's down in South Florida. He has president and CEO of MSC Cruise's USA, Mr. Rick Saso, and he'll be talking all about their upcoming MSC. DeVina. They'll be joining us later on in the show as well. Stewart's, Iran, the cruise guy is over in Europe this week. So joining us with Cruise News is travel writer Chris O. And hello, Chris. Let's get right to it.

Royal Caribbean announced earlier today that Brilliance of the Seas is going to be repositioned to Tampa in 2013, replacing Jewel of the Seas.

What kind of itineraries will she be doing?

Brilliance will be doing four and five nights Caribbean sailings out of Tampa, going to Cosamel inel on the four nights, and Cozumel and Grant

came in on the five nights. But before she gets there and does that, she's going through the

Royal Advantage program where she's going to be revitalized and come back almost like a new ship

with all kinds of new onboard enhancements, revitalized state rooms, Wi-Fi, digital

way-finding systems, all that sort of stuff.

So while it technically is the same ship, it's the temp is actually getting a better ship.

So Chris, Celebrity Millennium emerged from Drydok in Freeport, Bahamas last week, and is officially solsticized.

So what does solsticized mean and what changes can we expect?

Solstasizing is kind of like, well, we just talked about the Royal Advantage program with

Royal Caribbean. This is like the celebrity version of that, where they're taking all the best

of all the latest and greatest ships that came out and putting them on the older ships, making

them really one of the better values out there. Because, you know, remember, everybody wants to fail on the new ship and is a premium-priced ships. The older ships may not be as big, may not be quite as pretty, but when they get done with these revitalizations and the socializing is a perfect example of it, they come out

a completely different ship.

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