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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. Happy to have you here, my friend. Coming up a little later on in the program, we're going to hear from Craig Kell from Chicago. He just returned from a seven-night Eastern Caribbean sailing aboard Carnival Splendor, and he'll have a full review. He was also part of one of those Carnival Live sailing, so he saw Journey and Concert. So we're going to get his full review here in just a full review. He was also part of one of those Carnival Live Sailing. So we saw Journey

in Concert. So we're going to get his full review here in just a little bit. Before we get to our first guest, I want to welcome one of our new show sponsors aboard, which is cruising excursions. They're found at Cruisingexcursions.com. And your excursions are up to 60% off cruise line excursions. If you want to find out more, you can go to cruisingexcursions.com or check out the front page of our website, cruiseradio.net and click on Shore Excursions 101. A lot of details there as well. All right, let's get to the cruise news. Usually it's Stuart Shiron, the cruise guy, but he is jet-setting around the U.S. I think he's in Dallas today. So we have the cruise beat editor of TravelPulse.com. Teresa Norton-Massick. Hello, Teresa. Hello, Doug. Always happy to have you here. And I want to say one thing before we get started here. Thank you for doing this on such short notice. Well, you know what a pleasure it is for me to talk to you, Doug? I'm happy to do it whenever you need me. Well, thank you so much. So we'll get right to it here, and we'll talk about, that was so sincere. We'll jump right to the cruise news here. And the big hot thing on our Facebook page right now is Carnival Cruise Lines. Now, they're not charging for room service, but what are

they doing here? Well, Carnival, there's been a lot of news on the room service front in the past

week or two. Carnival is upgrading its room service menu. They're going to continue offering a selection

of free items, but they're adding extra items, upgraded items that there will be a

charge for. They're doing this as a pilot program. They're going to test it on three ships,

Carnival Imagination, Conquest, and Pride, and they just started it this week. But some of those

extra things are, for instance, if you're on Carnival, you probably like chicken wings, okay? In order

chicken wings, if you order those and have them delivered, it'll cost you $5.

A chicken cassidy and guacamole, five bucks.

Philly cheese steak, five bucks, pizza five bucks, spicy fried shrimp with French fries, six bucks.

So they're testing to see if people do want to get those, you know, those upgraded hot items.

The room service menu will still have like seven sandwiches that will be delivered at no cost,

as well as a couple of basic salads and some desserts and those kind of things.

Carnival does encourage people to tip the room service delivery people, although that's not mandatory,

but they do encourage it. So we'll see how that goes. I know this is cruise news and not

commentary with Doug and Teresa, but do you think you'd pay the $5 for the chicken wings if you

were hung over enough? I do like me some chicken wings. So yeah, I would think that would be $5

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