341 Carnival Paradise Review + Cruise News | Carnival Cruise Lines
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Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2015
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Jessica just returned from a five-night sailing aboard Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Paradise on a five-night Western Caribbean sailing. She leaves no stone unturned on this review covering embarkation from the Port of Tampa, first impressions of Carnival Paradise, food, dining experience, entertainment and ports of call.
- Carnival Cruise Line heading to China
- Norwegian Escape moving Norwegian Bliss to China
- Princess naming their new ship
- Amber Cove in the Dominican Republic opening up
- Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas undergoing a refurbishment
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| 0:37.3 | All right. Well, on this episode, Jessica just got back from a five-night sailing out of Tampa aboard Carnival Paradise. So we'll get a review of Paradise here in a few minutes, but first, as always, Stuart Sheeron, the cruise guy. What's up, Stuart? Hey, Doug, how's going? Good, man, breaking news off of Bloomberg, all kind of wires going crazy right now from the Carnival Corporation camp. |
| 0:57.2 | What's going on? |
| 0:58.3 | Well, the news is going to break here in the U.S. on Tuesday at 9 a.m., that Carnival Corporation is going to be doubling the number of cruise brands cruising in China. |
| 1:10.7 | So currently there's Princess and Costa. |
| 1:13.9 | They are going to add, Doug, this is really going to surprise a lot of people, |
| 1:17.8 | but Carnival Cruise Line and Ieda Cruises will both be joining their sister company. |
| 1:23.2 | So Carnival Corporation will have four cruise lines sailing with ships in China in 2017. |
| 1:30.4 | So four of its 10 brands will have at least one home ported ship. |
| 1:34.4 | So that's pretty impressive growth in such a very short period of time. |
| 1:39.2 | Well, it's certainly interesting. |
| 1:40.4 | Do we have any word like, of course, Carnival Vista is coming out in 2016. |
| 1:45.2 | Is this going to be a purpose-built ship for the Chinese market, or are they going to deploy |
| 1:49.3 | a current Carnival Cruise Line ship? Well, Doug, I think it's up for speculation at this point. |
| 1:55.1 | I mean, right now, Carnival does, you know, only has Vista for 16, and then they have an unnamed |
| 2:00.8 | ship for 2018. |
| 2:02.7 | So I'm going to speculate it's going to be one of their existing ships that, you know, |
| 2:08.1 | something that they can make some adjustments to and is right size for the market. |
| 2:13.1 | Well, moving on here, speaking of China, Norwegian Cruise Line announced that they're going to China, too. |
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