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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Hey, what's up?

My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio, our final episode of

2014.

Thank you so much for being a part of it, my friend.

Stuart Sheeran, the cruise guy is on vacation this week, but we'll be back next week.

So we are going to change things up a little bit and do a 2014 cruise year-end recap.

Now, you know I can't do it alone, so I brought in the editor-in-chief of Vacation Agent Magazine.

Also, the cruise beat editor of TravelPulse.com, Teresa Norton Masick.

She was on the show last week, and she joins us again.

Hello, Teresa.

Well, hi there, Doug.

So, Teresa, you recently wrote an article of recapping the top

2014 cruise stories of the year. So we're going to bounce around that article, and we also added

a couple more to talk about, and look ahead into 2015. So first things first, let's get right to it and talk about Quantum of the Seas.

Yeah, Quantum of the Seas was a huge story this here, just because of all the really, you know,

new and different and exciting features that it offers. You know, you have the skydiving simulator.

You have the North Star, that little gondola pod, like on a cherry

picker that takes you 300 feet above the sea. You have bumper cars. You have virtual balconies

and inside state rooms, so you feel like you have a view, even if you don't actually have a window.

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