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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.

A very special episode today. Yeah, we're on board a Carnival Vista in the Mediterranean.

We just embarked in Barcelona. And all I have to say is, wow, this ship is awesome.

With me right now is Chris Owen from Chris Cruises.com. What's up, Chris?

Not much. How you doing, Doug? What about this great ship? How about this carnival vista? I want to tell I ask you, Chris, because we've been following this for about a year and a half now from when we first saw it in New York City last January. What were your first impressions when you boarded the ship? Well, you know, they made a big thing when they announced the ship about it was going

to connect with the ocean more, and the shape, the spaces from the inside would roll out

onto the decks, but it was hard to imagine it really, and it seemed more like a marketing

ploy, but they really, what the product that came out and what we're experiencing is really true they have

everything including the candy store opens out onto the outer decks so you could walk around

the outside of the ship and pick and choose like that where you want to go or you can get in with

all the life of the ship which varies from concert violinists in the atrium to people learning how to line dance just a few steps away.

We were talking just a few minutes ago.

You were telling me that you were walking through the ship from bow to stern, and there was literally something for everybody.

I was on the way to a press conference, and I walked by the main atrium where the dreamscape is,

and it's a beautiful space space and that LED lighting all over

they can make any mood they want to and at that particular time they had these three wonderful

violinists playing this fabulous classical music that just filled the space with this wonderful

music then it walked a few doors down and walked the red frog rum red fraud pub and they were playing a game quarters with beers, and everybody was hooping and hollering and having a great time in their way. And then I continued on down to the Ocean Plaza, and they were making, they're having line dance lessons there for people. I shouldn't say line dance. Some kind of organized dance lesson where everyone was learning the same kind of thing.

I could tell you which step it was.

I don't know. You didn't join. No, but they were having a hell of a time. That's all this really counts. And then I went to the press conference, so I thought, you know, maybe it is possible to beat everything to everybody. I don't know. I thought it was a better idea to specialize. but they've just really got the whole,

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