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Hey, what's up? I'm Doug Parker, and we are aboard the 110,000-ton Carnival Freedom. Yeah, it just came out of Dry Dog like a month ago. I'm here with my guest co-host, Nancy Shredder, from the Family Travel Network. Hey, Nancy, thanks for joining me. It's great to be here, Doug. It's a fantastic ship. So you and I were on a press sailing on the prototype for Carnival Funship 2.0, which was Carnival Liberty back in 2011.

And now here we are again three years later on Carnival Freedom.

Just happened a month ago, the Dry Dock.

It was 15 days, $70 million, and they did an amazing job.

Absolutely.

You know, all of the spaces are incredible and they've added

so many different branded experiences and spaces on this ship. It's fantastic for every type of guest.

We are on an eight-night sailing out of Fort Lauderdale. We hit Grand Turk, La Romana, Dominican Republic.

We hit Carousal. We hit Aruba, and now we're on our last

tea day back to Port Everglades. But I think before we get any further in the show, Nancy, I think it's important for our listeners to know, if you're taking a ceiling out of Fort Lauderdale and you don't live in Florida, you may want to come in a day early. Absolutely, because so many things can go wrong these days if you're, you know, if you're coming in and flying in, there's so many delays and cancellations that can happen. And it's nice to actually spend some time in Fort Lauderdale. There's a lot to do there. But for the peace of mind, it's a very good idea to come in early. Absolutely. And without our first guest on cruise radio, we'd be pretty bored during, well, our whole cruise, because we just be sitting around twiddling our thumbs. He is the cruise director from Australia, Skip Lyon, Skip. Welcome to the show, my friend. How are you? Good, man. I've got to say, Carnival Freedom just out of Dry Dock. What can folks expect now when they sail on Cornwall Freedom that they may have not have seen a couple months ago?

If you, sorry, should I be using my radio voice?

Whatever you want to do.

If you had been on the Carnival Freedom before, you'll notice that there's a huge transition.

The biggest, of course, is the guest areas, the new branded areas that we now have on board from the Red Frog Pub to, of course,

the outside deck areas with the Red Frog, you know, rum bar to the blue tequila, you know,

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