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Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio, the very first episode of 2018. Very happy to have you here, my friend. Coming up on this week's show, well, we did an interview with Richard last week about Carnival Vista, and it sparked a couple of questions, so I'll do my best to answer these questions for you. Also, coming up later on in the show, We'll talk with Terry Thornton. He is the vice president of itinerary planning with Carnival Cruise Line.

And I just wanted to talk kind of a casual chat with him, pull the curtain back, and see what goes on behind the scenes, an itinerary planning with some new cruise ship deployments happening this year and next year and also about their new island that they're building over in Freeport,amas so we'll talk to Terry here in a little while and let's just jump right through

the questions here about Carnival Vista so Aaron asked me is Grand Turk rebuilt yet and the answer

to that Aaron is yes if you go to Grand Turk I've been there twice over the past two months

you can't even tell a hurricane hit there, aside from a couple of small things.

Like the palm trees at the Grand Tart Cruise Center, they all have these, I guess, support beams on them, whatever they're called, to hold the palm trees up because they had to replant new palm trees.

And a couple of places just past the Carnival cruise terminal area, like more towards

Jack Shack.

There are some roofs blown off some houses, but it's not like too bad.

And they're, like I said, I've been there twice.

And the first time, there was repairs, I'm trying to say.

There was repairs done from the first time to the second time.

So Grand Turk is back up and going. And a Jack

Shack down there, there are fully operational as well. In fact, it surprises me how many people

flock to Jack Shack just for the chill atmosphere and Tofer the dog and, you know, the good

drink prices down there. So yeah, check out Jack Shack. And Aaron asks a two-part question here. He says,

what's the difference between Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville and Jack Shack? Well,

Jimmy Buffett's Margueriteville has a pool. It's free to use. Has a swim-up bar, has loungers,

has free Wi-Fi, all of that. Jack Shack, no pool there. The free Wi-Fi, they do have Wi-Fi. I've used it in the past,

but over the past two times I've been there, they didn't have it hooked up yet because not all the

island has Wi-Fi yet, or I guess telecommunications restored after the hurricane. But, yeah, they

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