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My name is Doug Parker.

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

A review of Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas this week. Also, we have Captain Murray. He is the port director over at Port Canaveral, talking about all things happening in central Florida at the cruise port.

But first, as always, staff writer Richard Sims enlightens us with this week's

cruise news. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug. Let's start by squashing a rumor that came out of the Norwegian

Aquacrisseting event. Okay, this is kind of funny to me because if you told me this story and

didn't tell me what cruise line it was or who the

person speaking was, I would assume it was John Heald, the brand ambassador at Carnival,

just because this is something that he would totally do. It just did 100%. But it's not. It was

actually John Trenesky, who is the Senior Vice President of Sales for Norwegian

Cruise Line. He was addressing travel agents, basically, who were attending the ceremony

christening of the Norwegian Aqua. And during that, he was asked a question if Norwegian was considering doing

a status match program. This is something that a few lines, but most notably MSC have been doing,

and it's sort of a way of helping get people who are thinking about trying a new cruise line. This

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