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Thanks for checking out this bonus episode of Cruise Radio, a review of Princess Cruise's

Royal Princess, a ship that came out in 2013.

Had some slight modifications in Dry Dock a few months ago. So Vicki's here. I actually recorded this interview with Vicki back in February. It got put to the side. Just got edited a couple of weeks ago, I think. So we're going to go ahead and air it today. So Vicki, I apologize for just getting this up. Five months late. Better late than never, though. Don't forget about our Facebook group. Cruise Radio News come and kick around the cruise conversation without any further ado. Vicki, welcome to this show. How's it going? I'm great, Doug. How are you? Good, good. Thank you for asking. Now, I'm excited to talk about Royal Princess because I love this ship. Before we get to the ship, take a step back, and give us some of your pre-crues thoughts about

Royal Princess.

I would have to say it's probably one of our favorite ships in the Princess Fleet.

We just love everything about it.

A few things we miss from other ships, but ideally, that's our preferred ship if we can get on that.

Remember when that ship first came out and there was some hiccups it had?

Did they resolve all that?

Yes.

In fact, this ship had just been in dry dock in Italy and then it did Transatlantic and

then it did this five-day.

And I mean, they had to do the dry dock because it's sort of like, you know, under warranty.

It has to get those normal things done under the hood, I would say. But it did fix a few things. Do you want to cover some of the things that did? That would be awesome, just like in a nutshell for us. Well, you know, everybody on cruise credit cap complaining about that there's no midship staircase on the ship, as well as the regal doesn't have a midship.

Now, it does have no midship staircase on the ship, as well as the

regal doesn't have a midship. Now, it does have a midship staircase, but it was for crew only.

And they did convert that in dry dock to a public stairway. So that's quite nice. And it's very handy.

If you're like on deck eight or nine midship. You could now run

down those stairs to get a coffee where before you had to wait for an elevator really wasn't an

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