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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. Don't forget, we have a Cruise Radio News Facebook page. Just search Cruise Radio News on Facebook. So I just returned, like yesterday returned, from Martinique, which is an island in the Caribbean. It's a region of France. Their cruise industry was struggling for a little while, but it's back on the upswing now. I had a chance to talk to some people down there, so we'll catch that interview in just a few minutes. But first, Stuart, Siara on the cruise guy. What's up, Stuart? Hey, Doug, how's going? Good. So a lot of ships back in the States now. Everyone coming over from Europe, of course, Norwegian Escape in Miami year round. brand new-new ship there, brand-new ship, kind of, Anthem of the Seas in Bayonne, now sailing year-round for the New York City area.

MSC is back in Miami, but we'll see how long she's here for.

And then Norwegian Cruise Line, back in Port Canaveral for what, the first time in three years?

It is.

They're going to bring this weekend they're going to bring in Norwegian spirit, which is their smallest and oldest ship.

But the good news for Port Canaveral is that next year it will be replaced by Norwegian Epic, which was supposed to be around in Europe.

So they're going to bring it to Canaveral, so that'll be one of their newest and

largest ships sailing out of the Canaveral area.

Have you sailed Spirit before?

I've been on Spirit, which originally came over from Genting, and it was sent to

Alaska to replace Norwegian Sky, which was expedited to become Pride of Aloha early

because Pride of America sank in a shipyard back in 2004.

So they had to do a lot of ship shuffling in the earlier years.

But it'll be a good ship for the market. Yeah. Would that be doing, what, long cruises or short cruises? They'll be doing seven-night Eastern and Western out of Port Canaveral competing with Disney, Carnival, and Royal Caribbean. All right, very nice. Holland America's new ship, the Konings Dom, coming out next spring, and they have a series of videos out, kind of debuting the ship.

What are these videos show? I haven't seen any of them yet.

Well, what they're doing is they're just trying to get people excited.

This is definitely going to be a fantastic ship.

You know, with the recent reveals, you know, it's going to be a really really i think that definitely their best ship it's going to be amazing

so what they try to do with these video reveals is you know get people on board

the ship show them uh... construction highlights

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