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My name is Doug Parker. This is Cruise Radio Rewind. A request for this week's show is a review of Royal Caribbean's Ovation of the Seas.

Debbie and her family are sailing the ship this summer in Alaska. So I have Dwayne on the line. Dwayne actually sailed the

very last sailing of Ovation of the seas in Alaska last summer. But the ports, the itinerary,

the ship still remains the same. Nothing much has really changed. So we have Dwayne on the line.

How you doing, man? How you doing really good? So give us some pre-cruised thoughts. What made you want to take this very last cruise of the Alaska season? Yeah, really, it wasn't because it was the last one. It just price point worked for us. We've been all over the Caribbean. We've talked to a lot of people. We have a lot of family who've been to Alaska, and it was, to go you got to do it we saw the videos and

we had an opportunity and so we jumped at it you made your way from Oklahoma City where you live

up to Seattle but you only pre-crues time in Seattle we did we went a day early we're kind of cautious

and don't want to try to fly out the same day as the cruise.

So we did go a day early, flew into Seattle and got there fairly early, did the Pike Place Market thing, walked around the downtown area, and then turned in early because we'd been up since like two three in the morning just to catch our flight out.

So you went to board Ovation of the Seas the next day.

How was the embarkation

process? It was pretty painless. We got there early, and embarkation probably took from

curb to ship about an hour, but a lot of that was our own doing because we just got there so early.

But we went in, sat down, visited with some people, and before we knew it, it was time to board the ship.

And from curb to ship, about how long did it take?

It was about an hour.

Okay.

And then you boarded Ovation of the Seas.

What were your first impressions?

Well, very clean and shiny.

We had been on the allure a year before, and it was very similar.

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