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Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruz Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend.

So, yeah, lots going on in the cruise news world.

So Stuart here on the cruise guy, standing by with cruise news in just a couple of seconds here.

Also, we'll get a review of Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Sea.

So looking forward to that.

Haven't heard about freedom in a long time, or actually any freedom class ship in a while here on the show.

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Let's talk about what Norwegian Cruise Line announced today for their China-based ship, Norwegian Joy.

Well, this will be the second ship designed for the Chinese market.

It will be the third breakaway plus class ship. It was supposed to be Norwegian Blitz. But instead, it's going to be Norwegian Joy. It will be probably the same size as

escape around 164, 600 tons. They said the guest capacity is going to be about 3,900, which is slightly small,

to about a few hundred, 350 passengers less than the other ships.

They announced some features that really are found on other cruise lines.

They're going to have the Galaxy Pavilion, and they're going to have a racing simulator,

which is similar to what MSC has on Davina.

They're going to have hovercraft bumper cars.

As you know, bumper cars are found on currently three other Royal Caribbean ships.

Do you not think that this two-level competitive go-car track is cool or a big deal? I think it's going to be very cool. Because you're not really talking about it, and it's very, it looks awesome on the stern of the ship there. Yeah, no, I think it'll be very interesting, and I guess the bigger question is, will that be on the Norwegian Bliss when it arrives in 2018. Yeah, yeah, totally.

And that laser tag, that's cool, too, right?

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