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Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

This is Cruise Radio.

How's it going? My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

Very happy to have you here, my friend.

A review of Sky Princess this week.

Now, that ship was launched in 2019.

Steve had the pleasure of taking a New Year's Eve cruise.

So from 2019 into 2020, it was 14 nights,

seven Eastern, seven Western. And Steve will be sharing his review with us a little bit later on

in this show. But first, we'll jump to cruise news with Sherry Laskin from cruis maven.com. Hello,

Sherry. Hi, Doug. So Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings are the parent company of NCL.

It looks like they're getting a little bit closer to requiring vaccines for all the crew members.

Yeah, so they sent out a press notice that they will require all crew members from Norwegian and Region 7Cs to have their COVID-19 vaccines in order to work on the ships.

And the announcement comes on the heels of new cruise cancellations that extend through April.

So when and where the crew will be vaccinated, wasn't mentioned, only that it was a requirement to work.

And, you know, along the same lines over at all-inclusive saga cruises,

which is based in the UK and sold only to the 55-year-old and up crowd, they've taken the

decision to require that all guests, not just the crew, but the guests, must be fully vaccinated

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