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Matt just returned from a seven-night cruise on Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas. It went out of the port of Tampa, Florida, and he joins us online. How you doing, buddy? Hey, Doug, I'm great. Thanks for having me. Yeah, good to talk to you again. It's been about five years or so, so excited to get your take on Radiance of the Seas. You took this one with your parents.

Now, what made you taking a step back here before we get to Radiance?

So what made you want to take this cruise?

You're up in the Philadelphia or the Pittsburgh area, I should say.

What made you want to take this one?

This cruise was with my parents who are older.

They're actually both in their 80s. So one of my good

friends and I, we decided to take them on this cruise. And it was actually a belated anniversary

present that I had given them a couple of years ago. And we, you know, through a series of other

issues, we just really couldn't get it together. And last fall made the decision that we were going to book this for early March of 2025.

And so we decided to go with radiance.

And whenever I was looking at different ships, there's a lot of factors that I consider

because I am traveling with my parents who are older, and the size of

the ship is always one of them. While I am interested to try some of the larger, newer ships,

for them, that would never work just because they're way too big, way too much walking,

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