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Thanks for checking out this weekend's episode of Cruise Radio Rewind. I'm Doug Parker, and we're

going to talk with Rachel. She just returned from a seven-night cruise. Actually, it was one of the last

cruises in Alaska for the 2019 season.

She was on board Norwegian Jewel. Kind of a unique interview here, a unique angle, because not only

was she on one of the last cruises, her and her family of five stayed in the Haven Suite, which

a very fancy area on Norwegian. So we're going to talk all about this with Rachel. Before we get to

Rachel, just want to remind you, I'm currently on the Mekong River in Asia right now, Southeast Asia.

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Cruise Radio News. All right, Rachel, how are you? Thanks for being here. Hey, how are you?

Good. And I'm excited to talk about this because not only did you have a killer Alaskan cruise,

but you had a chance to stay in the Haven? We sure did. Yeah. Can't wait to talk about that here

in a few. But before we get to that,

we'll take a step back, as we always do. Give me some pre-cruced thoughts. You're out in Raleigh,

and what made you want to take this seven-night Alaskan cruise at the very end of the Alaska

cruise season? So my mom just turned 60 in September, and going to Alaska has kind of been on her bucket list.

So this was our birthday present to her.

And we looked at some of the different options.

We looked at some of the larger ships out of Seattle, some of the smaller ships out of Vancouver.

And the jewel just kind of had that price sweet spot for us.

So this was me, my husband,

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