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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. Coming up a little later on in the program, we'll get a review of Norwegian Escape from Tina.

Not just any review, a review of Norwegian Escape after they started charging for Margaritaville at sea.

Of course, Margaritaville wants a complimentary restaurant on Norwegian

Escape. So we'll get Tina's thoughts on that. Before we get to our first guest, I do want to tell you,

don't forget to look us up on Facebook. Our Facebook group is Cruise Radio News. Join that and interact

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Our Snapchat name is Cruise Radio. I'd love to have you follow along on there. We are very honored and privileged this week to have Teresa Norton Massick, editor and chief of Vacation Agent Magazine doing cruise news with us. Hello, Teresa. Well, hello, Doug. It's been a while, hasn't it? Yeah, you know, it was very nice seeing you here in Jacksonville for the Carnival Carrey Underwood event a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, that was a lot of fun, my first time ever in Jacksonville. I hope the first coast treated you right. I just wish you could have stayed for the actual concert. It was awesome. Wow, yeah, that would have been great. Unfortunately, my schedule didn't allow. It never does.

Let's go to the cruise news.

Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas, left Bayo, New Jersey last weekend.

Heading for the Caribbean encountered a storm off the coast of North Carolina with like some crazy

winds, like 120 miles an hour per the company.

And it turned into this big media fiasco and circus.

What are the details on this?

Yeah, it's kind of hard to know exactly what happened.

The story I'm getting is there was a storm predicted for several days.

And I think Royal Caribbean wasn't anticipating it was going to be as bad as it was.

And I think they also thought they could get ahead of it.

I don't really know, and we're getting, you know, different versions of what's going on, but all I can say is, if I would have been on that ship, I probably would have been scared to death, too, and I would have been sick. Yeah, yeah. you know, but, you know, they're saying the winds were over 100 miles per hour, maybe close to 125 with 30-foot seas.

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