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Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, I'm Matt Baskford.

And I'm Doug Parker.

Check out our cruise news updates at cruiser.net. It always feels like I'm screaming at the listener, doesn't it? It does. Why are you screaming? I don't know. I'm just excited. Sounds like it. Just excited. Well, a big show this week. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we got a delightful listener, a mother out of Indianapolis, Indiana, Eden Kindle.

Should we talk about our five-night sailing with her family aboard Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas out of Fort Lauderdale. That's a great ship, one of the Freedom ships before Oasis, and it's a good time. They're all lovely. All those Royal Caribbean ships are lovely. Get her take on it. But first, Stuart, you're, the cruise guys here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, guys. Hey, man. Carnival Cruise Lines is cutting back on Europe sailings. This really isn't a big shocker now, is it, Stuart? It isn't considering the last two years where there's been a, you know, there's been the economic conditions in Europe, and they'll get, you know, more money, mo money from their ships in the Caribbean.

So it's really only the tail end of the season where we're dealing with the September, October, November sailings.

So it just gets the ship back to the U.S. and into the Caribbean earlier rather than later.

So I'm not surprised at all.

And I wouldn't be surprised if more cruise lines didn't follow suit.

Yeah, I can see that. So Norwegian cruise lines is testing out all you can drink packages

on three different ships. What's the word with that?

So who wouldn't want to drink like a Norwegian? You're following suit with several other cruise lines.

NCL is testing and all you can drink package.

Well, you know, it's somewhat limited because it's limited to as how much the drink can cost.

But if you're going to be, you know, drinking essentially, you know, make and, you know, have five drinks per person per day to break even,

then this may be a package for you, but it is about, comes out to a little more than $7 more

expensive than what carnival's doing, and it is going to be tested on three of the 11 ships

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