304 fathom Feedback + Carnival Pride Review | Carnival Cruise Line
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2015
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, Sherry Laskin joins us to talk about a cruise she took aboard Carnival Pride earlier this year from Tampa to the Western Caribbean. Sherry gives us all the details on this Carnival Pride review.
Recently, Carnival Corporation announced the start up of a new brand called 'fathom.' The brand is centered around social impact and has created quite the buzz on social media and on the message boards. Stewart Chiron The Cruise Guy joins me this week to tackle and answer some of the response.
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| 0:00.0 | Cruise Radio is brought to you in part by Tripinsurance.com. Travel insurance done right. Get a quote today at tripinsurance.com. |
| 0:09.4 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:16.5 | Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:24.7 | So happy to have you here, my friend. Coming up a little later on in the program we'll get a full review of carnival pride from sherry laskin but first uh as you know last week carnival corporation |
| 0:31.6 | announced a new cruise brand in fact their 10th cruise brand and it's called f Fathom. The response, some good, some bad, and some people just totally slaughtering it online. |
| 0:43.6 | So we have Stuart Sheer on the cruise guy on the line right now to tackle some of the feedback and get his thoughts. |
| 0:49.9 | So what's up, Stuart? |
| 0:51.1 | Hey, Doug. |
| 0:51.4 | How's it going? |
| 0:52.3 | Good, man. |
| 0:53.0 | So as you know, last week we were both in New York City for the event Carnival Corporation launched their 10th brand called Fathom. A lot of response, some good, some bad. So we want to tackle some of the response today on the show if you're up to it. I am absolutely up to it. Okay, so we'll get right into it, man. The first comment I got said, if you're giving back, why is the cruise brand charging $1,500 per person when you can get a seven-night Caribbean cruise for half the price? |
| 1:20.6 | Well, that's a great question. |
| 1:22.7 | The reality is, Doug, that one, look at the ship that they're offering. |
| 1:27.2 | This is a five-star ship that they're going to be sailing on. |
| 1:31.4 | Two, essentially a free cruise, this isn't a, you know, they're not donating anything |
| 1:37.4 | in a sense of, you know, just providing you a ride to go to Dominican Republic so you can |
| 1:43.1 | do, you know, go offer free time. I time I mean this this is a cruise there is an experience there are |
| 1:49.7 | programs it doesn't it's not free for them it's costing them money and look a |
| 1:56.4 | free program Doug would be unsustainable right so I, and you're going on a deluxe ship. |
| 2:02.2 | These programs are being provided for you to be able to, you know, donate your time. |
| 2:07.9 | Look, it's not for everybody. |
| 2:09.9 | I mean, that's the beauty of cruising, Doug, is that there is something for everybody. |
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