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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. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A couple of weeks ago, I did a five-night

sailing with my parents aboard Carnival Sunshine. So, Kristen, from St. Louis, will be

interviewing me about my experience aboard Carnival Sunshine. So that's coming up. But first, don't

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Just type in Cruise Radio News. Of course, that's also embedded on the top of every one of our articles at cruiseradnet. All right, Kristen Ladwig is on the line and she's going to interview me about Carnival Sunshine. So, Kristen, I'm going to turn the microphone over to you and let you do your thing, girl.

All right. Well, let's start off with

why did you choose this cruise? Was it the ship? Was it the it the it it itinerary, the time of the year,

or anything else? Yeah, so it was a little bit of everything. My parents just celebrated their

36th wedding anniversary, and I wanted to do something nice for them and it was a

great rate as well carnival had a flash sale and I got three people me mom and dad for eight hundred and

like eighteen dollars for five nights uh on a five night Bahamas cruise so it was the price it was the time

a year and of course everyone knows it's a lot cheaper to cruise during hurricane season.

Well, aren't you the sweet son to give that as a gift for your parents? I selfishly did it because I brought them with me, but I wanted the cruise, too. So it was a bit of a multi-generational cruise for you. Yeah, you could say that. Okay. Now, this cruise, I believe, went out of Port Canaveral, correct? It did, yeah. Okay, so I assume that you drove then.

Yeah, so I'm in Jacksonville, and so I'm about two hours north of Cape Canaveral, Port Canaveral. So I drove down there, and one thing about Port Canaveral, if you are parking there, they're going to charge you $15 per day. Now, most cruise peers charge you per night. like if you go to Miami, they're going to charge you, if you're on a five-night cruise, you're going to charge you for five nights. Well, in Port Canaveral, they charge you, if it's a five-night cruise, they charge you for six days. So it would cost $90 at $15 per day. So I found an off-site parking lot called Park, Park Canaveral, and it was like $44.

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