291 Carnival Sunshine Repositioned + Carnival Freedom Review |Carnival Cruise Line
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Doug Parker
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🗓️ 20 March 2015
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
It was recently announced that Carnival Cruise Line is repositioning Carnival Sunshine to New York City, seasonally June - Oct. 2016. Terry Thornton is the Senior VP of Itinerary Planning for Carnival and talks to us about the move, the itineraries, and the future of Carnival Magic.
Jason Leppert joins us to give us a review of Carnival Freedom, his latest six-night Western Caribbean cruise from Galveston, Texas. Jason gives us a comprehensive review of dining, public areas, entertainment and staterooms of Carnival Freedom.
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| 0:11.1 | Broadcasting from the Insuremytrip.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. |
| 0:21.4 | Happy to have you here, my friend. If you want to find out more about us and more articles, just head tocruiserad.net. Everything can be found right there on the homepage. Before we get started here, our thoughts and prayers going out to the families of those killed in some gunfire over in Tunisia. there was an MSC cruise ship and Acosta ship there a couple of days ago, and they had a terrorist attack at a museum. Some people lost their lives, so our thoughts and prayers certainly with those families and those dealing with that right now. Coming up a little later on in the program, we'll talk to Jason Leppard. He's returned from Carnival Freedom, and he'll give |
| 0:54.2 | us a full review on that. But first, let's talk all about Carnival Sunshine. So the city that never |
| 1:00.0 | sleeps will be getting a dose of sunshine next summer, as Carnival Cruise Line recently announced |
| 1:04.0 | that the newly renovated fun ship, Carnival Sunshine will start sailing from the Big Apple, starting |
| 1:08.9 | in June of 2016. And to talk all about it today is the Senior Vice President of Itinerary Planning for Carnival Cruise Line. |
| 1:15.5 | Terry Thornton. |
| 1:16.2 | Hello again, Terry. |
| 1:17.3 | Hi, Doug. |
| 1:17.7 | How are you today? |
| 1:18.5 | Good, my friend. |
| 1:19.2 | So let's do first things first here and talk about Carnival Sunshine. |
| 1:22.6 | She's currently based in Port Canaveral going to New York here next June. |
| 1:27.7 | What's behind the move? |
| 1:29.7 | Our thinking was, in thinking about Carnival Sunshine, |
| 1:33.2 | leaving the current home port just for a season at least, |
| 1:36.7 | let's go ahead and show more and more people these great features |
| 1:41.2 | and what better way to showcase something like these features than to put |
| 1:45.5 | it in the New York market. So the New York market is a perfect fit. We know the features our guests |
| 1:50.6 | are going to love that sail with us out of New York. And so it was really an opportunity to kind |
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