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153 Cruise Questions Answered: Listener Call-in Show

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2012

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

We field your questions about travel insurance, family travel, and cruise port questions.

Dan Skilken from Trip Insurance, Nancy Schretter from the Family Travel Network and travel writer Chris Owen all weigh in. 

Thoughts or reviews? Email me: [email protected] 

Find in-depth cruise news and ship reviews at https://cruiseradio.net

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:13.2

Okay, standby. Broadcasting from the cruise radio studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio.

0:37.6

Hey, I'm Matt Basker. And I'm Doug Parker. Check out all of our cruise news coverage at cruiseradio.net. On this show, it's all about travel insurance. We're going to be taking your calls, your emails, your Facebook and Twitter questions. Dan Skilken, CEO of Tripinsurance.com, will be joining us and Nancy Shredder from the Family Travel Network. You know you you know they say dog a family that gets travel insurance together stays together that's why

0:41.3

you're divorced precisely of course you know you can always email comments at cruise radio

0:45.6

dot net by the way we're also going to talk to travel writer chris owen but first stewers here on the cruise

0:51.3

guys here hello stewart hey matt hey dog hey man so stewart this still lives on. Carnival's Faster to the Fun program.

0:57.4

A lot of people getting worked up about it. What do you think about this?

1:00.1

You know, when you really have time to think about it, it's really not going to encroach on anyone's benefit.

1:05.4

There aren't going to be enough people taking advantage of the program, one, and two, with regard to the lifeboats,

1:11.4

how many ports do you actually tender in?

1:15.5

And if so, passengers that have sailed on Carnival for 75 days or more are not, let's say,

1:22.5

looking to be the first ones off the ship.

1:25.0

They've been there, they've done that and they're not looking

1:27.8

forward to having a rush down there. So it isn't going to be a question and it's certainly

1:32.2

not going to create more lines at check-in. And you know what? If people are willing to buy

1:39.0

these additional services that are being offered, then so be it.

1:44.2

That's fantastic.

1:45.4

But the good news is that the people that have earned it, the platinum and diamond members,

1:49.1

are not going to have to pay for it.

1:51.0

So it's really a moot point.

1:53.7

Celebrity Reflection, the fifth and final solstice-class ship hit the water,

1:57.8

and she officially floats.

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