020 Royal Caribbean Catches Criticism from Media
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
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🗓️ 24 January 2010
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Summary
If you have watched this news this week, you've noticed the cruise lines have been front and center.
In this episode, The Cruise Guy, Stewart Chiron sets the record straight about all the media hype criticizing Royal Caribbean for continuing service into their private beach in Labadee, Haiti.
Julie Watson, Communication Consultant for VisitJacksonville.com talks about things to do if your cruise is departing out of Jacksonville, Florida.Â
Chris Elliott, founder of Elliott.org joins us to talk about the Top 5 Travel Mistakes.
Author Daniel Hall talks to us.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more. |
| 0:06.8 | Subscribe to our newsletter and weekly radio show at CruiseRadio.net. |
| 0:11.5 | From the Cruise One Studios in Jackson Mill, Florida, this is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:16.0 | Booking your next vacation is so easy and done right at Cruise1.com. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm Matt Baskford. And I'm Doug Parker, |
| 0:22.7 | and today on the show, Chris Elliott of Elliott.org, will be talking to us about the five common |
| 0:27.3 | travel mistakes. And there's more to the port of Jacksonville than one might think. Julie Watson |
| 0:32.5 | from Visitjackson.com tells us more. But first, all eyes are on the Haiti relief effort, and unfortunately, the media is distracting |
| 0:40.7 | us with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line's decision to continue port service to Labity Haiti in the wake |
| 0:46.0 | of the catastrophic events. |
| 0:47.9 | Stuart the Cruise Guy from Cruiseguy.com joins us now to bring us the facts. |
| 0:52.1 | Hello, Matt and Doug. How are you guys? |
| 0:53.8 | Very good, very good. |
| 0:54.9 | Certainly, like you said, it's been a busy week. |
| 0:57.4 | Royal Caribbean has been taking quite a hit in the PR realm, |
| 1:00.6 | but it just astounds me how the media has just blown this story when it comes to facts. |
| 1:07.7 | One news outlet was watching some video, and they were saying, |
| 1:12.1 | well, you know, we understand that Labadee is 70 miles away from Porter Prince, and in their next |
| 1:17.2 | sentence, they forget the distance, and they said, well, you know, maybe they could at least |
| 1:21.7 | allow the, you know, the Haitians to use their showers. And, I mean, it's not 70 miles away. It's 90 miles away. Right. And, I mean, it's not 70 miles away. |
| 1:28.5 | It's 90 miles away. |
| 1:29.9 | Right. |
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