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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. A review of

Virgin Voyages Valiant Lady this week. Also, staff writer Richard Sims is standing by with

Cruise News, kind of doing things a little bit backwards this week. I was over in Aruba on Thursday,

so we couldn't link up to record. So we recorded yesterday for this morning show.

Having said that, jumping straight to Richard.

Hey, buddy.

Hey, Doug.

So Carnival announced a big change to their drink package.

One of the questions we're asked about the most often is whether people should get a drink

package.

And there are a lot of different ways of figuring out,

you know, like what the value is to any individual person. For me personally, it's always about

not getting a bill at the end of the sailing. That's like I will never sail without a drink

package unless I'm forced to for that very reason. But for a lot of people, they literally do the math.

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