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Right out of the gate today, I need to apologize to my buddy PJ. He was on the Carnival Panorama show we did, and I introduced him as T.J. at the front of the show. So I apologize about that. So yeah, my name is Doug Parker. This is Cruise Radio Rewind. Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News since we couldn't catch up with here over Christmas. And also a couple of questions that you have sent in. We'll answer those as well. So we'll jump right to Sherry withcnaven.com. Hey, Sherry. Hi, Doug. Carnival Cruise Line is hiking their

beverage package again. Yes, and effective January 1st, the price of Carnival Cruise Lines'

Cheers beverage package will increase up to $3 a day on some cruises. So if you're booked on a

three or four day Carnival Cruise, you might want to consider purchasing

the Cheers package now before the January 1st increase takes effect. If you're planning a longer

cruise, there's no worries. The increase right now only applies to short cruises, and there's

no planned increase for cruises of five days or longer.

So from John Heild's Facebook post, he revealed that the price for the Cheers beverage package

for the three-day cruises is going to increase by $3 per day, making the package total $54.95 per day plus gratuity, and that's if you purchase the package

before your cruise. If you wait until you're on board, it will jump another $5 for a total of $59

and $95 per day plus gratuity. So the bottom line, purchase the cheers package between now and

December 31st at the current rate, even if your cruise departs on or after January 1st.

Yeah, because those three and four night cruisers, they're party animals and they're probably

drinking the ship dry. Yeah, they kind of, you know, they figured that one out.

Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas is going to spend its first summer in the Mediterranean.

Yeah, it was just announced the Odyssey of the Seas, which is Royal Caribbean's next Quantum Ultra-class cruise ship.

Will Homeport in Rome, which is really Chevedaveccia, for the first summer season

in spring of 2021. Odyssey of the seas is scheduled to launch in November of 2020 in Europe,

will do a transatlantic and home port in Fort Lauderdale. And from Florida, the ship will offer

six and eight night Caribbean

cruises during that winter season. And then come May of 2021, Odyssey of the Seas will do a transatlantic

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