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This is Cruise Radio. Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. I'm Doug Parker. Check us out online at CruiseRadio.net. Vicki Bone joins us about her 10-night Caribbean sailing on Emerald Princess. But first, Sue or she are on the cruise guys here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt, hey, Doug. National Cruise Vacation Week is upon us. What is it, and are the deals really that great?

Well, Cruise Lines International Association, which is the, you know, Kleea, which is the industry trade group, gets, you know, set this week.

It used to be like vacation, you know, cruise vacation month.

They then just kind of focused on a week, and all of their member

lines come out with all kinds of different deals.

NCL, for example, or many of these deals are pretty much the same that's been going

on, you know, for NCL, it's the same deal, minus the vacation book that they've been running

for, I think, 24 consecutive months.

Right.

You know, with a, you know, it's really the shipwork credits.

I think Royal Caribbean, for example, was offering 5,000 pennies, you know, a shipwark credit

on their cruise, which for the rest of us, that's $50.

Sure.

For me, too.

And it's, I mean, it's okay. Look, it comes down to there's some very, very good bargains right now that, you know, are being offered by many of the lines. To me, the price, the cap, you know, you know, how, you know, you want to go, look, you want to get the best cabin for the least amount of money. Sure. And so it's important to kind of look past the diversions, which, you know, a lot of these offers are,

and understand what the deal is, find the right ship, get the right price,

and, you know, plan for a great vacation.

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