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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

181 Windstar Cruises Expansion + Cruise News

Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Doug Parker

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2013

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

This week, we talk to Windstar Cruises CEO, Hans Birkholz, he'll share details about their acquisition of three motorized yachts.

Cruise Guy stops by with Cruise News.

Thoughts or reviews? Email me: doug@cruiseradio.net 

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

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Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

0:19.0

This is Cruise Radio.

0:37.5

Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. And I'm Doug Parker. Check out our website at cruiseradio.net. Also, check out our video we just posted of our day aboard Carnival Destiny earlier this month before it went to DryDop to become Carnival Sunshine. And you must see the high hilarity, which is the blooper reel. Yeah, you can see that at Facebook.com slash cruise radio. Now, last week of the news, Stuart Sheeron, the Cruise Guy, I talked about Windstar Cruises and how they recently purchased three ships from Seaborne. So we'll talk to the CEO of Windstar Cruises, Hans Berkholz. But first, Stuart Sheeraneran, the Cruise guy is here now. Hey, guys. Hey, man. Oh, this is huge, isn't it? Titanic 2 plans unveiled this week. What do you think about this, Stuart? Well, I mean, I'm laughing because this is such a big joke in the sense that, you know, this guy in Australia, I mean, you have to call him a kook. You know, go look up to definition. You'll see his picture, Clive Palmer.

1:13.8

And, you know, he's building the ship that is longer and larger than the original.

1:21.3

So if the original Titanic was 46,328 tons, how do you call a 55,800-ton ship a replica? I mean, there's, there's

1:34.6

I mean, the outside could look like it, but it's larger. If you're going to build a replica,

1:38.8

it's supposed to be, hello, the same size. Right. And it's just, you know, it's almost comical in the sense that, you know, maybe his next project he'll try to build a replica of the Mayflower

1:52.0

or think that, you know, we want to sail on Noah's Ark.

1:56.2

Do you think people will really pay $750,000 to a million dollars to do the inaugural?

2:02.0

Doug, I think the guy is off his medication.

2:05.6

Because, I mean, there's just no sense.

2:08.1

Keep it my look, it's a 45,000-ton ship.

2:12.0

Who wants to be on a 55,000-ton ship from 100 years ago?

2:17.5

It's just, it's comical that, you know, okay, I thought he came to his

2:21.6

senses when he canceled the launches before.

2:24.4

I mean, this is about as smart as Hugo Drax, deciding to reinitiate the Moonraker

2:31.6

program and fly people into outer space. I mean, it makes absolutely

2:36.2

no sense. And you know what? Okay, you know, you had these, these cornballs who wanted to, you know,

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