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Five, one, four, two, one, four, zero.

Hang on, boys.

It's all downhill from here.

Broadcasting from the EnsuremyTrip.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, what's up? I'm Doug Parker. Thank you so much for hanging out with us on Cruise Radio today. I know you have so many choices, and it means a lot that you are here. On this show, we're going to check out cruise ship dining. Yeah, talk about freestyle dining, the main dining room, specialty restaurants, all things dining this episode of Cruise Radio. Also, we'll find out what the folks over at American Cruise Lines are up to. They have a couple of new paddle wheelers on the work, so we'll check out with them a little bit later on in the program. But first, Stuart Sheron, the cruise guy. What's up, Stuart? Hey, Doug, doing great yourself. Yeah, man, good. Let's get right to it. Royal Caribbean pulling out of New Orleans. What's up with this? Well, it's not a surprise, but I understand, I guess the best way to understand this is musical chairs.

Real Caribbean was setting their 2015-2016 deployments, and unfortunately, when the music

stopped, there wasn't enough ships to continue to base one seasonally with Explorer of the

seas heading out to Australia.

It's just unfortunate, but I could certainly tell you

all of the cruise lines, especially Royal Caribbean, have an excellent relationship with New Orleans.

New Orleans is a great city from which to sail from. It's been very successful, especially for

Carnival that has three year-round ships based there for the first time ever. And it looks like

Serenade of the Seas

is going to be taking over Legend of the Seas schedule in Europe for 2015. And then it will

return and begin to do 10 and 11 night sailing instead of Florida. So yeah, definitely

musical chairs there. Next talking point, CDC releases a statement saying that norovirus is more of a threat

in restaurants, not on cruise ships. What's up with this? Well, I'd say no, duh. This is something that

I take the media to task over because they make such a big deal because a cruise ship might have

10, 20, 30, 100, a couple hundred people that are sick,

but it occurs less than 7,000th of 1% here in the United States alone.

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