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🗓️ 20 July 2011
⏱️ 30 minutes
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This week we speak to Nancy Schretter with the Family Travel Network about planning and taking a Mediterranean cruise as a family.
Travel expert Chris Owen drops by to share some tips for a Mediterranean cruise.
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0:00.0 | Okay, standby. |
0:02.2 | Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. I'm Doug Parker. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter and sign up for our newsletter right there at our website, cruiseradio.net. It's all about the Mediterranean this episode. We're going to talk to Nancy Shredder from the Family Travel Network. We'll join us. She's got some great advice, obviously, for families. |
0:22.4 | And Chris Owen, writer for gaddling.com, has an article out, a first-timer's guide to Mediterranean cruises. But first, Stuart, Sharon, the cruise guy is here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. Hey, man. Getting right to it. the shipmakers have tossed the keys of the celebrity silhouette to the company. |
0:22.8 | Yeah, it's hard to believe. Getting right to it, the shipmakers have tossed the keys of the celebrity silhouette to the company. |
0:40.3 | Yeah, it's hard to believe. |
0:41.2 | This is the fourth of five of these award-winning, amazing solstice-class ships. |
0:48.5 | But this one is a little different than the previous three. |
0:52.4 | Instead of being 122,000 tons holding 2850 passengers, |
0:57.0 | this is going to be 122,400 tons, and she'll hold 2886 cabins. Wow. So they added 36 cabins. |
1:07.0 | We'll find out where they squeeze this in. But the big distinctive change to this ship versus the previous three was in the top area by the lawn club. |
1:17.9 | They had a glass blowing area, and they removed that and actually put in a lawn club grill. |
1:25.8 | And then on the half acre of grass they actually added |
1:28.8 | some you know you call them cabanas that people could use for the day where they'll |
1:34.1 | charge you anywhere from ninety nine dollars in port for the day versus or while at |
1:39.4 | sea it will charge about a hundred and fifty dollars a day and you know they'll |
1:42.8 | give you some some neat amenities in there. |
1:45.8 | But if you've never been on one, it's definitely time for more people to experience these really sensational ships. |
1:53.6 | So Norwegian Cruise Lines is teaming up with USA Today, letting the readers name the next two ships, right? |
1:59.7 | Yeah, and it's the same thing Royal Caribbean's done, |
2:02.0 | so NCL figured, hey, you know, we'd like a turn, you know, |
2:05.6 | to get the nice exposure from it. |
2:07.7 | And I think we'll save them, you know, |
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