182 Titanic 2, Hoax or Happening?
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2013
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This week, we talked to Senior Editor at Cruise Critic, Dan Askin, all about Titanic 2. Is it a hoax or is this ship really going to be built? Dan gives us the details from the press conference in New York City.
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| 0:15.1 | Okay, standby. Broadcasting from the Cruise Radio Studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, I'm Matt Baskford. And I'm Doug Parker. Check out the video portion of this show at cruiseradio.net. On this show, senior cruise editor for CruiseCritic.com, Dan Askin will join us again to talk about Titanic 2. How legit is this? But first, Stuart, Stuart, Stuart're on the cruise guys here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt. Hey, Doug. Nassau, Bahamas turns away Norwegian epic one day last month because of a scheduling error. Is this true? And does this happen often? Well, I'll tell you, guys, this was, quote, epic fail. I mean, I mean, you have the, essentially the third largest cruise ship in the world scheduled to come |
| 0:57.3 | into port and you've taken in too many ships and you're not ready. |
| 1:02.2 | It does happen. |
| 1:03.6 | I mean, the, you know, the head port guy was not in. |
| 1:07.0 | He was vacationing somewhere else. |
| 1:09.5 | And, you know, this is kind of a universal |
| 1:11.9 | studios. We're sorry we're experiencing technical difficulties. It's unfortunate, but, I mean, |
| 1:17.3 | can you imagine they, you know, turning away a 4,100 passenger ship? God, if I found a business |
| 1:22.4 | there, I'd be pissed. Well, and I could tell you a lot of the businesses there were. I mean, |
| 1:26.8 | you know, I could tell you that reports from Atlanta alone was that they had $100,000 worth of tours booked to the resort on its own. |
| 1:37.0 | Oh, my gosh. |
| 1:37.8 | So it was a huge loss of business, and, you know, hopefully someone's underwheres hanging from the flagpole |
| 1:45.6 | at the port there and hopefully it won't ever happen again. |
| 1:48.1 | We can only hope. Carnival Dream released new itineries from Port Canaveral. What are they? |
| 1:53.6 | Well, in addition to the seven-night eastern and western Caribbean, what they're going to be doing |
| 1:58.3 | is offering, you know, they're going to be kind of changing up the itineries. They're going to offer some six and eight-night |
| 2:04.4 | sailings that will certainly generate a lot of passengers. And this will also be Doug the very first |
| 2:12.3 | time that any cruise ship has actually done a southern Caribbean from Port Canaveral. |
| 2:18.8 | Oh, cool. |
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