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103 Pride of America Review | Norwegian Cruise Line

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2011

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

We talk Solstice-class with Celebrity Cruise Line's CEO, hear about a vampire theme cruise, get a review of Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America, plus Cruise Guy is here with Cruise News. 

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0:00.0

Okay, standby.

0:02.1

Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

0:06.0

This is Cruise Radio.

0:07.8

Hey, I'm Matt Baskford.

0:08.9

And I'm Doug Parker.

0:09.7

We have a new website at cruiseradio.net.

0:12.5

On this show, we'll talk to Linda Wolfe, event producer for Vamps at Sea.

0:17.0

Yeah, it's a vampire-themed cruise over to Alaska next year.

0:20.1

We'll also get a review of NCL's Pride of America, and we'll hear from our Australian correspondent, Natalie Arroyan. Hey, guys. Hey, Natalie, who do you have lined up? President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises, Dan Hanahan. The first story, she was on the cruise guy is here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, guys. Hey, man. So Royal Caribbean made good with those passengers they stranded in San Juan because of Hurricane Irene,

0:42.3

right? What's the latest?

0:43.2

Well, the latest is to bring people up to speed because of Hurricane Irene, the port of

0:48.8

San Juan was closing and ordered Royal Caribbean and Carnival to get their ships out of port earlier than expected,

0:57.1

which essentially stranded 450 passengers.

1:01.3

Carnival, with their 300 passengers, agreed to put passengers in a hotel for up to two nights

1:08.7

and also fly them down to Barbados to catch the ship

1:13.4

at the next foreign port a call.

1:15.4

Now, there were some passengers that did not have a valid passport and were unable to make the

1:21.4

journey.

1:22.2

So if they were unable to make the journey or didn't want to make the journey, Carnival did

1:27.0

offer a future cruise credit equal to what the journey or didn't want to make the journey, Carnival did offer a future cruise

1:28.3

credit equal to what the passengers spent, and it was regardless of whether or not Carnival

1:34.8

booked their air or not. Royal Caribbean on the other side took a different stance and only

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