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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This week, listener Ashley joins us about her recent sailing on Carnival Fantasy, a five-night Bahamas cruise from Charleston, South Carolina. Hear a detailed review of Carnival Fantasy, her thoughts on dining, entertainment, the ports, and public areas of the cruise ship.

Plus, Cruise Guy has cruise news on: could Royal Caribbean be leaning towards play-to-play entertainment, shipyard fire causes damage to Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas, is the Mexican Rivera region making a comeback, and Holland America Line heading back to Bermuda in 2015.

We'll also answer a listener question about Carnival's all-you-can-drink "Cheers" program and the Faster to the Fun program.

Thoughts or reviews? Email me: [email protected]

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0:35.1	Head over to our new and improved website at cruiseradnet. Big show today. Ashley Abbott just returned from Carnival Fantasy, a ship doing sailings out of Charleston, South Carolina, and she'll give us a full review in a little while. But first, Stuart Sheeran, the Cruise guy. Hey, man. Hey, Doug, doing great yourself. Good man, jumping right to it.
0:54.7	Could Royal Caribbean be leaning towards a pay-to-play for entertainment aboard their ships?
1:00.3	Well, it's an interesting topic.
1:02.1	As it recently just came up again with their recent reveal for entertainment on Quantum of the Seas.
1:08.6	Many of the cruise lines have actually been thinking about this for many years,
1:12.6	thinking of a special to, you know, like the specialty restaurants.
1:17.1	As you know, NCL with Illusionarium on Getaway and the Cirque shows on Breakaway and Epic,
1:26.6	essentially you are paying for, you know know it's like you're paying for the
1:30.3	entertainment but it's it's actually a specialty restaurant with it with a show as royal
1:34.6	Caribbean is developing this cutting edge entertainment there could they could evolve into like
1:41.0	at some point where some of the entertainment could become like a special restaurant
1:47.2	where it's considered above and beyond and they'll still have the free entertainment.
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