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Welcome to this week's bonus episode of Cruise Radio, a review of Norwegian Joy.

My name is Doug Parker.

Happy to have you here.

Richard Sims is back with us this week to interview me about the three-night cruise I took on Norwegian Joy from Vancouver down to Los Angeles.

Also a deck-by-deck tour of Norwegian Joy just uploaded to our cruise radio YouTube channel.

As always, Richard, take the reins, and it's all yours, my friend.

All right. Well, thanks for having me, Doug, as always.

Really looking forward to this one because the closest I've come to this particular ship is Bliss, which, you know, we spent like two days on exploring.

So give me some first thoughts as you were getting ready to head toward boarding joy.

So randomly enough, we were on Bliss like exactly a year ago today, which was kind of random. But so I was expecting a lot of that. You know, it's always a like this cruise ship's breaking the mold, blah, blah, blah. You know, looking at joy and doing the research on joy, it was interesting to me because, yeah, it was the very first ship to have a go-cart track at sea, which I think is kind of breaking the mold. You know, when you're having a go-cart track on the back of a ship or an open-air laser tag area on the very top of the ship, I think that is innovative and that's just not a cliche. Oh, we're the first to do this at sea because you're legit, like if you do that, you could stand behind that and own it. That would have been something very unique.

So I was excited to see the changes as well because when the ship was launched, it was built for the Chinese market.

So more gambling, more shops, less restaurants.

And then it underwent this like massive $50 million renovation, $50 million renovation in Singapore and then a five-day wet dock in Seattle to

westernize the ship to make it more American, more food, less casinos. So I was excited to see what

the changes would actually look like in person. Here's a question that I haven't really

heard addressed anywhere. Being kind of familiar with Bliss, when you went on joy, did you notice anything in

particular that you could see, you could look at it and say, that's clearly sort of a

leftover from the easternization of it. You know, were there any signs left that it had been

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