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This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker, and this is a bonus episode of Cruise Radio, not the normal news

and all that, just because during the year I do probably 200 interviews.

And only 52 interviews actually make this show, which leaves me with about 150 interviews

to do something with. So instead of going to waste and

waste my time and yours, I put them as bonus episodes and air them throughout the year. Like

Kristen, she just returned from Disney Dream and she's here to talk all about her experience. Hey,

Kristen. Hey, Doug. Gosh, I haven't talked to you in forever like February, wasn't it? Yeah, because that would have been our December celebrity sailing that we did. This year has flown by. Wow. Okay, well, we're talking about Disney Dream this time, and before we get to the ship itself, let's take a step back, and give me your pre-cruous thoughts. What made you want to sail this three-night sailing on Disney Dream?

So I do a girls weekend with my friends, Andrea and Jennifer, every year. They're big Disney fans. We've, of course, have gone to Disney World in the past, but they had never cruised Disney before. And I had, and I thought that would be a great idea for a girls' weekend. So we looked at dates kind of in the

shoulder season, if you will, so past the peak pricing time. And September was a great time for

decent pricing from Disney after most of the kids have gone back to school and you're past summertime

holidays.

So we took a look at the itineraries and Dream does the three-night sailing out of Port Canaveral.

And so decided we would do that for this year's Girls weekend.

How did you feel about the pricing?

Because I know Disney always charges a premium, but I've also seen

the Disney prices pretty low, like a couple of hundred bucks some nights or some sailings

for a three-night cruise. So, yeah, I mean, it definitely is a premium priced product, but we knew

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