4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2012
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Maritime Lawyer Jim Walker weighs in on the Carnival ship that got detained in Galveston, TX -- tied to Costa Concordia.
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0:16.5 | Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
0:20.4 | This is Cruise Radio. Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. And I'm Doug Parker. Welcome back from Amsterdam. Oh, we missed you so much. And when I say we, I mean, I didn't miss you at all. And I miss Amsterdam. Oh, yeah. I love the pictures and video from the coffee bars. Okay, whatever. On this show, we'll talk to maritime attorney Jim Walker. Yeah, something crazy over the weekend. The Fed's tried to seize Carnival Triumph in Gavleston, so he'll weigh in on that and tell us what exactly happened there and how it got resolved. And then we'll get a consumer side of things from travel writer Chris Owen. The first Stewart here on the cruise guy is here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. Hey, man. Who, by the way, is fresh off the Disney fantasy down in Port Canaveral. How was it? |
0:38.0 | It was like a fantasy and a dream come true. Really? The structure of fantasy was just like Disney Dream was, but there were some differences inside the... I think probably the most noticeable was the bivety-bobbitty boutique, |
1:12.3 | which, I mean, it was just hacked with kids where little girls, little boys could go in and get, |
1:19.4 | it was like an American girl doll store, but for real kids. And the appointments were |
1:26.3 | completely filled, and there were so many princes and princesses |
1:30.7 | just strutting around the cruise ship wearing all kinds of different outfits and having |
1:36.5 | taken some really amazing pictures that these little kids just couldn't get enough. |
1:40.6 | And, you know, it really reminded me. |
1:42.3 | I did the ship was amazing, guys, the food, |
1:45.8 | the animators palette. Everything about these Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy were so greatly |
1:51.8 | improved over Disney Magic and Disney Wonder. And they, because one, they had, they had much more |
1:58.7 | room to go with. The pool decks are huge. I mean, the aqueduct was amazing. |
2:03.1 | I finally did it. |
2:04.7 | You know, the kids had a blast. |
2:06.4 | The kids program was fantastic. |
2:09.2 | Adults restaurants, Palo and Remy were just off the charts. |
2:13.2 | Incredibly nice, a really nice experience for the adults to be able to go and enjoy adult food |
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