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Jacksonville, 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,

a review of Scarlet Lady this week. Also, staff writer Richard Sims is here with Cruz News.

So what do you say? We jump straight to him. Hey, Richard. Hey, how are you? So NCL turned the corner in the last round of earnings. This is good news all around, in that for the first time since 2019, Norwegian made

a profit. They pretty much reported that earnings were up across the board. Ticket sales,

up on board spending, up, occupancy, up. In fact, occupancy is hovering right around like

104%. We've talked about this before, but for newbies wondering how you can get over

100% when it comes to occupancy, a ship is considered to be sailing at 100% occupancy when every room has

two people in it. Or, you know, technically we say every room. I mean, it works out to double occupancy

if, say, one room has one person in

and another room has three people in it that averages out to two people a room. So that's what

you get at 100%. Anything over that, and you're at 103, 104%. Anyway, the good news is that because

NCL is making so much money, they're passing those

savings on to guests with reduced fares.

No, they're not.

I'm kidding.

In fact, they're quite pleased with the fact that not only are bookings up and not only

are they making tons of money on onboard spend and all that, but they are also very pleased that those new ticket sales are at an increased price.

They're making more money than ever by charging more than ever.

So, yeah, you're probably going to have a little bit of a tough time getting a deal on those state rooms,

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