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Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

But this is Cruise Radio. Hey, I hey i'm matt bass for dug is aboard

princess cruises brand new royal princess this week sailing a two-night inaugural sailing from port

everglade how's it going down there doug definitely going good matt in fact uh with me right now

is no stranger in fact our old buddy ste Sheran, the cruise guy here to talk about

Royal Princess Stewart. Welcome to Cruise Radio in person. Hey, Doug, it is great to see you here.

You were on the ship earlier this year. We talked about it before in June. Now it's here in U.S.

Waters. It's, look, it's very exciting. You know, it's obviously selling very well because

the prices are high.

Availability is pretty low. People are thinking about sailing on Royal Princess.

Now is the time to start making those bookings before the prices go even higher.

But, I mean, look, she's 141,000 tons, 3,600 passengers, and she's just a lot of fun, very elegant very tasteful now is she going to split

time between here and europe she will be spending time i guess what in april she'll head back to

europe for her second Mediterranean season and then she'll be joined later in next year with her sister

regal princess nice and as you know this is my first time sailing Princess cruises. So what kind of separates Royal Princess from the other ships in the fleet? Because the last ship was what? Ruby Princess a few years ago, yeah. I mean, she's a larger ship, very, you know, she's very princess, very, you know, very, again, very elegant, she's very tastefully decorated.

She has some of the new features, the sea walk, which everyone's having a good time with,

which people don't realize, I mean, that extends 28 feet beyond the side of the ship.

So you're actually standing far out of the ship than the wing of the bridge.

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