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Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. 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. A review of Viking Sky today. Also, Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. Cruise Radio News podcast. It's the quick three things you need to know for the day, Monday through Friday, 90 seconds. You can subscribe to that at Cruise Radio News, wherever you listen to your favorite podcast again. I've been saying it a lot, but it's separate from this feed. I've been having some questions on that. So there's that. Also, the Cruise Radio YouTube channel. Have a couple of new tours up. I have a walking tour of MSC Seaside, Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas, Carnival Glory,

and a simulation of the roller coaster that Carnival is putting on Carnival of Mardi Gras.

And speaking of that, Sherry, what do you think of it?

There's no way on this earth I would ever get on that thing.

I was watching the video of what it would be like to be seated in this little motorcycle-ish contraption.

You're going 40 miles an hour, 180-something feet above the water? Yeah, as if.

Yeah, 187 feet above sea level. So that's going to be

pretty high up there. If you want to see a video rendering of this and kind of a simulation,

check out the Cruise Radio YouTube channel. So speaking of Carnival, a Carnival panorama

debuting on the West Coast next December, less than a year away, and now it looks like they're

bringing another ship to the West Coast. Well, I left my heart there in 1977. Miracle is sailing four-day voyages from San Francisco to Ensenada, and that's going to begin on March 19th of 2020. So it's a little bit of a ways out. People that just want to get away for a long weekend, this is great news because the ship will leave on Thursdays and return on Monday morning, so you can go right from the ship to work. The ship will also sail five and six-day cruises, and these will go to Ensenada, Catalina Island, and San Diego. Ten-day trips on the miracle will head to Alaska, making port calls at Juno, Skagway, and I-C-Castray Point,

and a special one-time only if you can't get enough.

11-day Alaska cruise will depart San Francisco on August 9th.

So that's pretty cool.

They've never been on San Francisco before, so it's the first time Carnival will make its appearance.

And after that, Carnival Miracle will relocate a little bit south down to San Diego and beginning October 4th.

This ship will cruise for three days to Ensenada, four-day sailings to Ensenada and Catalina Island,

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