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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, my friend.

Coming up on this week's show, Dan Skilkin, president of trip insurance.com, will be here fielding your trip insurance questions.

And I have to say, after sailing that 14-night cruise from London to Miami, Quite a few incidents happened on there regarding people's

health and such, and a couple of them didn't have insurance, so we'll tackle that as well.

Staff writer Richard Sims is here with cruise news, jumping to him now. Hey, Richard.

Hello, Doug. A couple of cruise lines have increased gratuities this week.

You know, where one goes, the other always follows.

So when Princess raised their gratuities a few days ago, you and I kind of looked at each other and were like, yep, it starts now.

And sure enough, right behind them came Norwegian.

Guest received a letter telling them about the change, which goes into effect for Norwegian on January 1st.

In the case, I think the thing that makes the Norwegian cruise line case so different is this is not the typical increase that we usually see.

You know, we usually see prices go up like a dollar, maybe a buck 50, but in this case, the majority of state rooms will go up $4.

So the new price is going to be $20 per person per day for most state rooms with the haven and sweets going up to $25 per person per day.

That is not an insignificant amount of money.

So, you know, if you do the math here, if you have a family of four doing a seven-night sailing,

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