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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for making us a part of your day.

I really do appreciate it. Coming up on this show, we'll get a review of Royal Caribbean's

Freedom of the Seas, a ship that's based year-round in Port Canaveral and alternates eastern and

western Caribbean sailings. So we'll get to Scott in just a couple of minutes. Don't forget about

our Cruise Radio News Facebook group. Just search Cruise Radio News on Facebook. We always like to get your cruise reviews here on the show. If you have one you'd like to share, shoot me an email, Doug atcruiseradio.net. Scott, his wife and his two daughters just returned from Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas, a ship that's based year-round in Port Canaveral,

and Scott's on the line right now. How's it going, Scott? Very good. How are you? Good, my friend. Now, we'll talk all about Freedom of the Seas in just a couple of minutes here, but before we do that, let's take a step back, and give us some pre-cruise thoughts. What made you want to sail Freedom of the Seas? A couple reasons. We've been sailing, doing a lot of cruises recently with the family on

Disney and kind of looking for something a little bit different. We also had previously done

a lot of Royal Caribbean cruises, so I wanted to give a try and go back to Royal Caribbean after

doing Disney for several years.

Right.

And so we did that.

And we had never sailed on the Freedom Class.

I'd been on Radiance Class and Awaitance class, so I wanted to try a new class and see what it was like.

Very nice.

So you're down in Tampa, and, of course, the cruise went out of Port Canaveral.

So logistically, how did you get to the port? We drove over the morning of the cruise. The cruise left on Sunday, so we get up a little bit early in the morning and head over. Now, do you normally park at the pier, or do you find, like, a third-party parking lot? We normally park at the pier. Well, you get to the pier and it's time to embark freedom of the seas.

So how was embarkation for you?

How was that process? We got there early. We like to get there early. You know, different reasons we get over there. So we got there early thinking we kind of, you know, smooth. You get on real smoothly. And, we got through the check-in line really easy.

Unfortunately, we encountered about an hour, hour and a half delay.

I guess the Coast Guard decided to do a drill on the ship,

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