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🗓️ 25 April 2014

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jason Leppert from PopularCruising joins us to talk about cruise resources to research your next cruise; whether you're a first time cruiser or seasoned cruiser, you'll learn some new sites here.

We had a listener question on Facebook about cruise tipping eqiquette and whether or not a cruise guest should take tips off because they don't eat in the main dining room.

Also, Cruise Guy gives us this weeks cruise news reguarding Royal Caribbean heading to China, Carnival Freedom heading to Galveston, Norwegian Cruise Line revamping their Ultimate Dining Package and a listener question.

Thoughts or reviews? Email me: [email protected]

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0:00.0	Cruise Radio is brought to you by InsuremyTrip.com.
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0:10.6	10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
0:18.6	Broadcasting from the EnsuremyTrip.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida, this is Cruise Radio.
0:25.7	Hey, what's up?
0:26.7	I'm Doug Parker.
0:27.4	Thank you so much for checking out this week's episode of Cruise Radio.
0:31.7	This week, we're not going to do a cruise ship review, but we're going to give you some cruise
0:36.0	resources to use when it comes to
0:38.3	researching your next cruise vacation. Jason Leppard from Popularcruising.com will be with us a little
0:44.1	later on in the program to give us his two cents. We always enjoy hearing from Jason. Stuart
0:49.4	Shiron, the cruise guy is standing by. We'll get to him in just a minute. But earlier this week,
0:54.7	Carnival Cruise lines announced that they're repositioning Carnival Freedom from Port Everglades in
1:00.2	Florida over to the Gulf in Galveston, Texas. And they're really just bullish on the golf market,
1:06.7	it seems, because three ships in Galveston as of February 2015. That's going to be over 600,000
1:13.3	guests embarking from the port. So I had a chance to talk to Terry Thornton earlier today.
1:18.8	He is the senior vice president of port operations and fleet deployment for Carnival Cruise Lines.
1:24.1	And I asked him, I said, Terry, why is Carnival so bullish on the Gulf
1:28.5	market? And this is what he told me. We are very bullish in the Gulf region, and specifically
1:35.4	for the Galveston market. We've had some news recently as well, and then New Orleans market,
1:41.3	where we've also increased our capacity there but
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