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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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On this episode, we get a review of a special seven-night 'The Love Boat' themed cruise aboard Princess Cruises' newest ship, Discovery Princess out of Los Angeles. We hear details on the food, entertainment, and all of the special activities that took place with the cast of 'The Love Boat.'

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
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0:15.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:17.0	Hey, how's going. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:20.7	A review of Discovery Princess this week.
0:23.6	And as always, staff writer Richard Sims is here with Cruise News, jumping right to him.
0:28.6	Hey, Richard.
0:29.4	Hey, Doug.
0:30.4	Since it's always nice to start things off with a little good news, it looks as if cruising the Caribbean isn't just back.
0:37.3	It's back in a big way.
0:39.3	That is for sure, Doug. So the Caribbean tourism organization or CTO released information about both
0:46.0	how things looked at the end of 2022 and what they're expecting to see in 2023. And the numbers
0:52.3	are pretty incredible. For example, the U.S. Virgin Islands is expecting
0:56.2	over 450 ships to visit in 2023, and that is up from 250 that stopped there last year. So that's
1:04.4	a huge increase. And get this, 1,200 ships visited Cosmell in 2022, which breaks the previous record by, they're saying, 340%, which is kind of crazy.
1:18.7	Antiqua, which is one of my favorite, favorite stops, is expecting to break all of their previous records this year.
1:24.7	A lot of this isn't just good for the islands and the cruise lines that visit
1:28.8	them, but from the American ports that they're sailing from, for example, Galveston has been
1:33.5	expanded by leaps and bounds. And that means there's not only more ships heading for the Caribbean
1:38.5	from there, but there's also more money going into the local economy. So no matter how you
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