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Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker.

Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

Very happy to have you here.

Coming up on this week's show, it's going to be a very detailed review of Carnival Panorama.

My buddy, TJ, just got off of a seven-night cruise, and then I was on for the three-night before him.

So we're going to kind of compare notes and

talk about Carnival Panorama and what you can expect if you're sailing on the ship.

If you're looking for cruise news this week, you're going to have to wait until Cruise Radio

rewind this weekend because it was just hard to nail down cherry with it being Christmas week.

But if you need your cruise news fix, we have you covered with Cruise Radio News. Find it where you listen to your favorite podcast. Just search Cruise Radio News. All right, let's jump to PJ and his seven-night Mexican Riviera sailing aboard Carnival Panorama. Hey, PJ. Hey, Doug. How you doing? Good, man. It's a shame we didn't get to meet up. You actually watched us Doc coming home from the three-night cruise.

You were on the back of the Queen Mary, and then I had to get to the airport to fly out to Utah. So I missed you. But I'm excited to talk to you about this cruise because I kind of want to get your thoughts, and then maybe I'll give a couple thoughts if that's okay with you. And we might go back and forth.

Yeah, absolutely.

Sounds great.

Let's do it. So as we always do, we'll kick off with pre-cruised thoughts. So what were your pre-cruced thoughts of Panorama? Yeah, well, my brother and sister-in-law contacted me back in June and saying they wanted to do a cruise with us. And so I started looking

for the December time frame because that's when it worked for work schedules. And I happened to

actually come across the fact that this was the first cruise ever. So I presented this with a list

of other possible sailings to my brother and his wife and my wife. And this is the one that

I did on. We like the excitement of being on a brand new ship and trying things out for the very first time and kind of a unique once-in-a-lifetime experience for us. So that's kind of where we got, came up with this cruise. Now, you were out in Texas. You had to make your way to Long Beach. As I just mentioned, you were on the Queen Mary. A brief overview of that experience.

That was really cool. That's something I really wanted to do. And with it being so proximal to the

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