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This is Cruise Radio. Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this

episode of Cruise Radio. Happy to have you here. Coming up today, we'll get a review of Norwegian Gem. Sherry Laskin stops by with Cruise News.

And a couple of days ago, we covered Carnival Victory turning into Carnival Radiance on the website.

Well, if you want to see any of those videos or any of the coverage we did, check it out in the show notes.

I'll link it up there. And our Cruise Radio News podcast feed. So separate from this feed, but it's a quick, three things you need to know every day. You can subscribe to it. Wherever you subscribe to this, just punch in Cruise Radio News and boom, there you go. All right, Sherry Laskin is here with Cruz News. Hey, Sherry. Hey, Doug. Carnival is saying goodbye to Carnival Victory, kind of.

Yeah, kind of.

And it's all part of Carnival's fleet-wide $2 billion enhancement program.

And in the spring of 2020, after a 38-day $200 million refurbishment,

the good old former Carnival Victory is going to emerge with a new look

and a new name and will be called the Carnival Radiance.

And aside from what was added earlier this year, which included Guy's burger joint,

a blue iguana canteena and even an alchemy bar, they're going to still add a red frog pub.

And in addition to that for food people and if you want to drink, there're going to still add a red frog pub, and in addition to that for food people, and

if you want to drink, there's going to be a Fahrenheit 555 steakhouse, a guy's pig

and anchor barbecue smokehouse, and a full service and much enlarged bonsai sushi.

And for evening entertainment, they're going to put in a piano bar 88 and two other

multi-purpose lounges that will be you know for families during the day and then nightclubs at

night and if relaxation is the reason for your cruise you should be happy because the

serenity lounge and cloud nine spot will both be enlarged. Doesn't Royal Caribbean have a ship called Radiance of the Seas? They sure do. Yeah. And it's Radiance class, too. Yeah. Like late 90s. Everybody's doubling names or tripling names. Yeah, there's a lot of crossover here. That's for sure. I had a chance to talk with Carnival Cruise Lines,

chief operating officer, Gus Antorsha, earlier today, about the refurb, and this is what he had to say. It's a pretty extensive makeover, similar to Carnival Triumph. We will be redoing

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