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Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, 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.

A, well, we'll call it kind of a special episode today because as we speak,

staff writer Richard Sims and myself are sitting aboard Norwegian Getaway here docked in Port Canaveral, Florida,

which is kind of weird because I live like two hours from here,

and this crew started in New York.

So it's kind of all bizarre to me, but whatever. On this show today, we're going to have a review of Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas. But first, as always, staff writer Richard Sims with Cruise News. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug. So, yeah, it's kind of, it's not weird for you because you live up in New York and you're like, you know, you're coming to Florida.

Me, I came to New York for the cruise and I'm coming back home to Florida.

Yeah, it is a little weird. It's also a little weird in that they sort of changed our itinerary up a little bit. So while we expected to only be in Florida for a couple hours and then go to the private island, We found out yesterday that because of weather and a couple other issues, they were actually keeping us

overnight in Florida. So we had an overnight in Florida. And then today, instead of going to the

private island, we're leaving about four o'clock this afternoon and we'll be going straight to

Nassau. So that was a little weird.

Had some people a little upset, I'm on a ship, I'm pretty happy.

But also weird because they canceled our stop at Great Stura,

but Norwegian sky is docked there right now with not a cloud of the sky and very flat water.

Yeah, and we had a beautiful day here in Florida.

And, you know, it's interesting because I have been to Great Sturkeh many, many times. in very flat water. Yeah, and we had a beautiful day here in Florida.

And, you know, it's interesting because I have been to Great Sturr-K many, many times.

I've never seen them ever have two ships there at the same time.

So I can't help wondering if somebody more important than us got invited to go to Great Sturrup K today while we sat in Florida.

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