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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. Hope you're staying warm out there, or at least if you're in the U.S. on today's show, staff writer Richard Sims. Check it in with Cruise News. As always, in a review of Disney Dream, but jumping to Richard first. Hey, man.

Hey, Doug. We kick things off with proof that when

it comes to cruise ships, bigger isn't always better. You know, for years, the cruise industry has been

rolling out bigger and bigger and bigger ships. I mean, when we think of the world's largest ships,

we think of Royal Caribbean, who are constantly topping themselves in that department, even if it's just by a few

inches with each ship, so that they get all the publicity that goes with releasing another ship

that is the world's largest. But Disney ships have been getting bigger, too, over the years,

and their largest ever, the Disney Adventure, is going to be debuting in the Asian market later this

year. That ship will carry up to 6,000 passengers.

But we now know that after that, Disney's going to launch an as-yet unnamed new class of ships, which will actually be smaller.

In fact, significantly smaller.

We mentioned a minute ago that, like, the Disney Adventure is going to carry 6,000 guests. This new class will carry around 3,000 guests. They're also being designed to be

more fuel efficient, and the next few years, we will definitely see Disney significantly add into

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