275 Carnival Conquest Review + Cruise News |Carnival Cruise Line
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2014
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Listener Joe Tolley from Charlotte, North Carolina just returned from a seven-night Eastern Caribbean sailing aboard the 2,974-guest Carnival Conquest, a Conquest-class cruise ship based currently based in Miami.
Joe talks with us about his family's cruise to Nassau, St. Thomas, San Juan, and Grand Turk.
Stewart Chiron, The Cruise Guy® has Cruise News:
- Celebrity orders two new ships
- Carnival offers longer itineraries
- Norwegian partners with Margaritaville
- Virgin cruises
- New CEO Royal/Celebrity
- Voyager of the Seas completes $80m refurbishment
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| 0:11.0 | Broadcasting from the Ensuremytrip.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.5 | Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Happy to have you here, my friend. On this show, listener Joe Talley from Charlotte, North Carolina checks in. He just did a seven-night Eastern Caribbean sailing aboard Carnival Conquest, and he'll check in a little later on in the program. But a lot of cruise news happening lately. Wow, we'll just jump right to it with Stuart Chiron the cruise guy. |
| 0:39.0 | What's up, Stuart? |
| 0:39.7 | Hi, Doug, doing well yourself. |
| 0:41.1 | Good, man, let's jump right to it. |
| 0:42.4 | Celebrity Cruises orders two more cruise ships. |
| 0:45.7 | Give us the scoop. |
| 0:46.7 | Well, the latest is that the ships are slightly smaller than the Solstice-class ships. |
| 0:52.5 | That's going to be deemed Project Edge. They're going to build |
| 0:56.5 | 2,900 passenger ships that are going to be 117,000 tons instead of the 122 to the 126 that the |
| 1:05.7 | previous five were. And they're going to take a lot of the combination from the Solstis and the Millennium class and combine them together. |
| 1:14.0 | One of the things that the former president of celebrity had said that they're trying to make the ships a little bit more intimate so they can get into smaller ports, |
| 1:24.7 | but a thousand ton difference is not a big deal. Yeah, it went from like what, just over a thousand to just under a thousand, two a 1,000 ton difference is not a big deal. |
| 1:27.7 | Yeah, it went from like what, just over 1,000 to just under 1,000, 2 in length, right? |
| 1:31.7 | Correct. |
| 1:32.2 | Moving on here, Carnival Cruise Lines offering longer itineraries for 2015 and 2016. |
| 1:38.1 | What are we going to see? |
| 1:39.0 | We're going to see some interesting changes. |
| 1:41.6 | They're going to be doing 10 to 14 day cruises on six different ships |
| 1:45.8 | between October 15 and February 16. And, you know, based on some popular demand, some |
| 1:52.3 | passengers would like to see extended calls. So they'll spend more time in ports. You know, |
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