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Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, I'm Matt Balford. And I'm Doug Parker. Check us out online at cruiseradio.net. We're going to get a ship review from one of our old friends, Jim Work, who sailed aboard the Celebrity Solstice out of Australia. I like old Jim. We saw him, what, in Bahamas a couple years ago? Yep. Good guy. He bought us beers and the hard rod. Also, he's our friend now. Yeah. Also on this show, just like the president does the state of the union address every year, Clea, which is the Cruise Lines International Association, does their state of the industry. President and CEO Christine Duffy will join us and give us all the takeaways from that.

But first, Stuart, you're on the cruise guys here.

Hello, Stuart.

Hey, Matt.

Hey, Doug.

Holland America recently celebrated their 15th anniversary of Half Moon K and recently introduced two-story villas, cabanas on the private island.

Tell us about the changes, Stuart.

Well, what's amazing, Matt and Doug, is that the cruise lines often tout themselves, or they may be overdramatic about some of the features that they make.

In this case, Holland America is underscoring the significance of what it is that they're

providing their passengers, because it's actually, it's unprecedented, and really, it could be a game changer, because what they're providing their passengers because it's actually it's unprecedented and

really it could be a game changer because what they're doing is they're offering not a one story

not a one story but a two-story beach villa nice on one of the most beautiful private islands

that is offered by any of the cruise lines. I mean, I'm talking powder,

white, sand, and beautiful, you know, Atlantic Ocean Cs there that is reminiscent of something

of an island you'd find in the southern Caribbean. But, I mean, these are incredible structures.

They're two stories. And each of these villas, Matt and, these are incredible structures. They're two stories.

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