264 Disney Fantasy Review, Carnival Great Vacation Guarantee + Cruise News
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 September 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Carter and his wife are from Central Florida and just returned on a seven-night Eastern Caribbean sailing aboard Disney Fantasy. Carter joins us to give us a bow to stern review of Disney Fantasy, leaving no stone unturned. Carter covers embarkation, first impressions, the stateroom, dining, entertainment, how the outside of the ship handles itself on sea days, and some first time cruise tips for Disney Cruise Line. You won't want to miss this Disney Fantasy Review.
Jim Berra is the Chief Marketing Officer for Carnival Cruise Lines and joins us to talk about Carnival's Great Vacation Guarantee. Basically if you think the sailing stinks, Carnival will fly you home and refund the cost of the cruise. Turns out you have a better chance of dating a supermodel than using the Great Vacation Guarantee.
Stewart Chiron, The Cruise Guy® stops by with Cruise News:
- Carnival Corp earnings were released – have they finally recovered from their past financial issues?
- Royal Caribbean's new ship - Quantum of the Seas completed it’s conveyance – how'd it go?
- Norwegian Escape keel laid – what exactly does this mean?
- Princess to participate in 2015 Rose Parade
- Oceania increasing daily gratuities to $16 per person, per day
- Cabo San Lucas – how is recovery after the hurricane?
Thoughts or reviews? Email me: [email protected]
Transcript
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| 0:18.3 | Broadcasting from the EnsuremyTrip.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:23.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey, what's up? |
| 0:26.2 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:27.0 | Thank you so much for being here making Cruise Radio a part of your day. |
| 0:29.9 | I sure to appreciate it. |
| 0:31.3 | On this show, we'll talk to the chief marketing officer of Carnival Cruise Lines, Jim Barra, |
| 0:36.1 | about Carnival's great vacation guarantee. Yeah, if you think the crew sucks, well, they'll send you home, and Jim's going to talk to us all about it. They're actually entering their second year of doing this, a really cool program here. Also, a little later on in the program, Carter Blumeier from Windermere, Florida, will give his review of Disney fantasy. But first, Stuart, |
| 0:54.7 | Sheron, the cruise guy. What's up, Stuart? Hey, Doug. How's going? Good man, jumping right to it. |
| 0:59.2 | Carnival corporate's earnings were recently released. Have they finally recovered? Is it safe to say that? |
| 1:05.3 | Well, it's absolutely safe to say that. Okay. Carnival reported stronger third quarter results. |
| 1:10.2 | They had much stronger last-minute cruise bookings, and their onboard spending drove stronger sales. |
| 1:17.2 | So it was a very good earnings call for Carnival. |
| 1:21.5 | They reported 50% year-over-year earnings improvement during the third quarter versus last year, |
| 1:27.1 | and also a 5% fuel |
| 1:29.9 | reduction. |
| 1:30.9 | Very good. |
| 1:31.6 | That was a very good indicator. |
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