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CARIBBEAN/CROWN sameEMERALD replaces GRANDGRAND replaces GOLDENSTAR the samePACIFIC to OceaniaTAHITIAN the same
In my opinion, you're bang-on !!! Except that, perhaps, one of DAWN or SUN may take over the SFO-Alaska run...and Golden switch to SEattle-Alaska....I know this would create an imbalance in the two weekly Seattle//Inside passage sailings but that should not be a problem. On the 2 Vancouver-Whittier Gulf weekly sailings,you have that '' imbalance'' already with the '' big one'' sailing saturdays and the smaller one on Mondays.
CheersCG
I also hope that the original Grand Class ships ( Grand, Star and Golden ) get an overhall with some of the new elements that the Crown Princess is bringing this summer.
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