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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. Here we go.

2015, flew by 216, full speed ahead. Standing by in just a couple of seconds, Stuart Sheer on the Cruise Guy with Cruise News. We'll also check in with Jeff. He just returned from an eight-night sailing aboard Carnival Breeze to the Eastern Caribbean.

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So slide your little mouse over there as well. Okay, Stuart, see around the Cruise Guy is standing by. What's up, Stuart?

Hey, Doug. Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you, too, man. kicking off the year with a lot of

cruise news and some changes as we set sail in 2016, like Norwegian cruise lines changing their

branding. I first noticed this on Facebook a couple of days ago. What are your thoughts on this,

and what are we seeing here?

Well, we're seeing the change from freestyle cruising to feel free.

And they got Pitbull to remix an old Rolling Stones hit.

But what's interesting is when you look at the copy they they want they want

the passengers to essentially have the same experience to be able to be free to do what they

want and when they want and and you know not have the restrictions which is what were the

cornerstones of freestyle cruising but then they they say that, you know, they want,

you know, passengers to have the freedom to make their vacations their own. And my only question

to that is, I mean, was it a vacation for someone else? If not for the passenger? Was it the

cruise lines vacation? You know, it's kind of, I think, a missed message.

So basically nothing has changed from their old branding.

It's still the same except some new words on the logo.

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