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212 Shore Excursions, The Love Boat + Cruise News

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2013

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Shore Excursions Group answers questions about using a third party shore excursion company.

Maritime historian Peter Knego joins us to talk about the Love Boat, or as you may know it, the Pacific Princess.

Cruise Guy is here with cruise news. 

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0:14.6

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0:19.3

This is Cruise Radio.

0:21.6

Hey, I'm Matt Baskford.

0:22.6

And I'm Doug Parker.

0:23.4

Check us out online and on Facebook at facebook.com slash cruise radio.

0:27.3

On this show, we'll talk to maritime historian Peter Canago about the love boat going to the scrapyard.

0:32.8

Yeah, very sad there.

0:34.4

Also, we're all in tears about it.

0:36.6

Could I have sounded any more sincere? Right. Also, yeah, those sincerity workshops are not paying off. Yeah, I didn't think so. Also, we'll talk to Dorian Wagner of shore excursions groups about third-party shore excursion companies, and if they're really worth it, and it turns out they are. But first, Stuart, you're on the cruise guys here. Hello, Stuart. Hey, Matt, how's it going? Very, very good. Carnival Corp is investing in a new cruise terminal in Barcelona. Well, actually, this is going to be their second. Oh, okay. Their subsidiary, Costa had been running Terminal D there, but essentially Carnival Corp has been operating it.

1:11.7

So they're going to essentially have a new terminal, so that'll make it, too,

1:16.1

where they're going to invest about $27 million into what will be Terminal E,

1:21.7

and essentially both ports will be used on a first-come-first basis with the, I mean,

1:29.6

the, you know, Carnival Corp brands, you know, the 10 brands will have first right to use

1:34.9

those terminals and then other, you know, other companies may have a shot at it.

1:39.3

All right, very well. So Costa Concordia is up right now.

1:43.4

I'm curious, is it still considered a crime scene?

1:45.0

Matt, I think it still is because now they did find the two bodies, which is good news,

1:53.0

which can bring some closure to the families.

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