261 Quantum of the Seas + Pierside Tipping | Royal Caribbean International
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Theresa Masek, the Editor-in-chief of Vacation Agent Magazine joins us today to talk about her recent shipyard tour of Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas. Theresa gives us 10 awesome new features aboard the upcoming cruise ship.
Stewart Chiron, The Cruise Guy® stops by with Cruise News:
- Norwegian Cruise Line purchases Prestige
- Princess Cruises reveals a trendy night club on upcoming Regal Princess
- Plans for a new pier in Venice - how is this going to play with the cruise ship ban?
- Oasis of the Seas Europe bound - but back next month - what is she doing over there and why is the Europe stint so short?
- Latest from Quantum of the Seas
Listener Question
Submitted to Facebook:
We were unloading our car at PortMiami a few weeks ago and had four bags total - I gave the porter a dollar for each bag and he told me this wasn't sufficient and the charge was $2 per bag. I went ahead and paid the $2 per bag because I didn't want my bag to wind up on the wrong ship! What are the tipping guidelines for curbside porters on embarkation day?
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| 0:00.0 | Cruise Radio is brought to you by Ensuremytrip.com. Travel insurance done right from the people who know travel insurance. Find out more at insuremytrip.com. |
| 0:10.9 | You are listening to. Broadcasting from the Ensuremytrip.com mobile studios. This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:18.6 | Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. If this is your first time listening, well, thank you so much for being here. And if you've been here before, well, welcome back, my friend. On this show, we're going to talk to Teresa Norton Massick. Yeah, she's the cruise writer for TravelPulse.com and also the editor-in-chief of vacation agent magazine |
| 0:39.3 | she just returned from royal caribbean's quantum of the seas from the shipyard over there in |
| 0:44.9 | germany so we'll get a full report from her a little later on in the program and also we have a |
| 0:49.4 | listener question about tipping curbside porters at your cruise terminal. But first, Stuart, she ran the cruise guy. |
| 0:55.9 | What's up, Stuart? |
| 0:56.8 | Hey, Doug. |
| 0:57.5 | Hey, man. |
| 0:57.9 | So a couple of big things happening over the past week in the world of cruising. |
| 1:01.7 | The first one, Norwegian Cruise Holdings, is purchasing another cruise line. |
| 1:06.8 | Talk to us about this, first off. |
| 1:08.7 | Well, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, which is the parent company for Norwegian Cruise Line, |
| 1:13.6 | has agreed to purchase Prestige Cruises holdings, which is the parent company of Region 7 Seas Cruises |
| 1:20.6 | and Oceana Cruises. |
| 1:22.6 | So it's actually a very interesting transaction. |
| 1:26.6 | It's three different companies that go after three different types of consumers, and they |
| 1:32.2 | each operate very differently. |
| 1:35.5 | So it's an interesting combination because there's really no overlap between the companies. |
| 1:42.1 | What's interesting is, Doug, that the two companies have actually, they're kind of like |
| 1:47.0 | step-sisters in the sense that Apollo, which owns 20% of Norwegian cruise line, also owns 59% of |
| 1:57.0 | prestige cruise holdings. |
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