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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 Holland America's Rotterdam this week. Staff writer Richard Sims hanging in the wings with Cruise News. Welcome back, Richard. Well, thanks. Thanks. Glad to be here. So we're going to do a separate interview with you about the MSC Merivia and your Yacht Club experience.

But overall, good cruise for you?

Very good cruise.

Kicking things off with a story that'll be of interest if you like to book a suite that comes with a hot tub on the balcony. And we know people who love this.

We know people who absolutely live for a hot tub on the balcony. It's turning this is sort of a good news, bad news scenario.

The good news is that it won't impact most cruisers because most of us probably will

never pay the money to have a hot tub on the balcony,

although I did do it once.

I never used it, but I did do it once.

The bad news is it could impact those of you who like these very expensive suites.

It turns out that two different ships have had outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease over the past year or two. And in both

cases, they were linked to hot tubs, but not just any hot tubs, on both ships, which were unnamed,

the names were redacted from these reports that were released. The source of the Legionnaire's

disease was hot tubs that are found on the balcony of, you know,

pricier suites. If you're looking at, you know, when you're, when you're looking online and you're

looking at various suites, sometimes it'll have, and I've seen this on numerous ships, they'll have,

you know, as a selling point, big balcony with a, with a hot tub on it. Well, apparently,

those private hot tubs are held to a

different standard than are ones you know you'll find by the lito deck or places like that

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