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Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, I'm Matt Basker. Doug Parker is in Nashville, Tennessee for the christening of American Cruise Lines' brand new paddleboat, Queen of the Mississippi. We'll check him with him in just a bit. But first, Stuart She-Rine, the cruise guy. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt, hey, Doug? They're good now. Hurricane Isaac, heading for New Orleans now, but wow.

What a message created for South Florida cruisers.

It affected Tampa, Miami, and Port Everglades, right?

There were some ships that were impacted this past week, most notably Royal Caribbean's lore of the seas, which was scheduled to do an eastern Caribbean itinerary, and it had

to go western. And because

of Isaac's path, it got impacted the second time because it actually could not get, you know,

heading east, it could not actually get back to Port Everglades. So in order to keep the ship

and the passenger safe, they kept the ship at sea an additional two

nights, and therefore the ship, instead of coming out on Sunday, arrived on Tuesday.

Did any of the lines offer compensation to the passengers embarking on these delayed sailings?

Yeah, it's important. The passengers on the ship, who were given the privilege of going from

seven to nine nights were not

company, as you said, compensated, but the passengers that agreed to take these short and

sailing were provided with some, you know, remuneration where they received some credits and

onboard credits and then some future cruise credits if they took the cruise,

not to mention they did provide a night or two hotel and meal credits.

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