287 Norwegian Epic Cruise Review & Caribbean Port Shopping | Norwegian Cruise Line
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2015
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Listener Kabir just returned from a sailing aboard Norwegian Epic, taking him on a seven-night jaunt around the Western Caribbean. Kabir gives us a full Norwegian Epic review, including embarkation, the stateroom, dining options, entertainment, and shares his tips and secrets.
Bill Panoff, president and CEO of Fort Lauderdale-based PPI Group, began his career as a cruise director and went into cruise publishing. Bill took his company a step further and now has over 60 port shopping lecturers. No one knows cruise port shopping like Bill. He joins us to answer a listener question about Caribbean port shopping.
Stewart Chiron the Cruise Guy has cruise news on:
- Carnival Vista itineraries
- Norwegian Cruise Line tipping increases
- New venue for upcoming Holland America ship
- Disney adds Star Wars themed cruises
- Captain of Costa Concordia sentenced
Thoughts or reviews? Email me: [email protected]
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| 0:11.1 | Broadcasting from the Ensuremytrip.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:15.5 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.7 | Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:19.1 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:21.9 | If you missed last week's show, it's definitely worth a listen. We were broadcasting live over in Gableson, Texas on the Lido Deck aboard Carnival Freedom. A really, really good show there. You could find it at cruiseradio.net, iHeartRadio, or just type in Cruise Radio at iTunes. On this show, we'll get a review of Norwegian Cruise Lines, Norwegian Epic. |
| 0:40.8 | Yeah, from a listener who recently just got off of her. |
| 0:43.4 | But first, as always, it's Stuart Chiron the Cruise guy. |
| 0:46.7 | Hello, Stuart. |
| 0:47.8 | Hey, Doug. |
| 0:48.6 | Calling all Star Wars fans, Disney has a little treat for you. |
| 0:52.7 | Was that my cue? |
| 0:53.7 | That would be your cue. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, starting in 2016, Doug, passengers aboard eight select sailings aboard Disney Fantasy |
| 1:03.5 | are going to experience Star Wars at Sea. |
| 1:08.0 | As you know, Disney purchased Lucas Films Star Wars franchise. The new film Star Wars, |
| 1:16.8 | was it seven, is slated to come out later this year in December of 15. And they're going to have |
| 1:26.3 | Star Wars days on Disney Fantasy, which if you're looking for a galaxy far, far away, somewhere in the Western Caribbean, this is going to be a whole lot of fun for a lot of people. |
| 1:37.4 | People, you know, of all ages, are going to have fun being able to experience not only Mickey Mouse, but Darth Vader, the Stormtroopers, Chupacca and some of their other favorite Star Wars characters. I love Disney's publicity photo that has Chewbacca by the Disney Smokestack. It's awesome. It's great. I mean, they're all great. I mean, you know, the cute picture of the little kid that normally you see Mickey Mouse, you know, walking down the promenade deck with a little boy. |
| 2:02.9 | And what they did is they had Darth Vader and two stormtroopers that scored with a little boy. We talked about it a couple of weeks ago, Stuart, about how the Carnival Vista, how it got leaked out by the port of Miami on where the ship's going. But Carnival actually released some details. What did we hear? So essentially the details came out in a Miami-Day Commission meeting detailing the facts surrounding |
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