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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2010

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Travel writer and travel agent Chris Owen (aka OrlandoChris on Twitter) joins us this week telling us all about his recent Alaska cruise on the Coral Princess.

Stewart Chiron gives us the Cruise News and weekly commentary.

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0:00.0	Welcome aboard to Cruise Radio, your home port for everything, cruising and more.
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0:14.5	And I'm Doug Parker.
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0:25.3	Keep Cruise in Jacksonville. The contract for the port here expires next year, and so there's
0:30.8	some debate as to where it will land and whether it stays in Jacksonville.
0:35.3	Yeah, you'll find some good local headlines on there and some good conversation as well. On this show Orlando, Chris is our guest. We had the great pleasure of sailing with him aboard the Norwegian epic not too terribly long ago. Had a great time with him. And we wanted to hear about his experience when he went to Alaska. Yeah, he did a land excursion and a cruise, too, so I can't wait to hear all about it.
0:54.7	But first, Stuart, you run the cruise guy, is with us. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. Hey, man. Okay, this sounds like a joke. I was hearing that they're thinking about Brownsville, Texas as a port. Brownsville, Texas, which, you know, you have to go and pull out a map. They've got a wild idea that the cruise industry would be interested in two things.
1:16.3	One, using Brownville as a turnaround port, which means people will fly or drive into Brownsville,
1:23.7	which doesn't have an airport, or that if you're sailing, let's say, out of Galveston,
1:29.0	that they would want to stop in Brownsville.
1:31.7	And for those who don't know, Brownsville is on the very southeastern tip of Texas at the Mexican border,
1:36.9	basically in the middle of nowhere.
1:38.5	The nearest major city is San Antonio, which is 265 miles away.
1:46.1	The nearest airport, essentially, is Corpus Christi.
1:49.6	So anyone that's flying in without the fly to Dallas and then fly the Corpus Christi.
1:54.6	So this could be possibly a two or three stop for some people.
1:59.4	So why would this be a good idea?
2:01.7	No, this would be a horrendous idea.
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