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352 Celebrity Summit Review + Caribbean Excursions | Celebrity Cruises

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2015

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Barry just returned from a seven-night Caribbean sailing aboard Celebrity Cruises' Celebrity Summit round trip from San Juan. On this show Barry reviews embarkation, first impressions, stateroom, dining, entertainment and ports of call on this voyage. Barry gives us his candid thoughts on the ship and what he liked and didn't care for. 

We also talk to Cruising Excursion expert Shelly to get advice on what to do in Grand Cayman, Jamaica and Curacao. 

Thoughts or reviews? Email me: [email protected] 

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0:10.6

Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio.

0:17.4

Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here. Coming up on this week's show, we'll get a

0:24.8

review of Celebrity Summit out of San Juan, Puerto Rico. She does seven-night Caribbean sailings.

0:30.9

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Just search Cruise Radio News on Facebook. Barry Vodrin of Cruising Authority is on the line

1:00.8

right now to talk to us about his latest seven-night sailing aboard Celebrity Summit out of San Juan.

1:06.3

Hello, Barry. Hey, Doug. Hey, it's great to be on your show again. Yeah, man. Thank you for coming on

1:10.5

such short notice. I do want to ask you, before we get to this ship, let's take a step back, and let's talk about what made you want to sail a Celebrity Summit. Well, I'm an Ocean Lider historian, and so I'm a big fan of the Normandy restaurant, the specialty restaurant on the summit. And so I also hosted a large group of 80 people.

1:30.9

And so that was my interest in this particular ship because it had a great itinerary. And it was

1:37.3

perfect for our needs.

1:38.5

Yeah, cool. Well, we'll get to your itinerary in just a few minutes. Let's talk about getting there

1:42.3

because you're up in Minneapolis and you had to get down to San Juan, Puerto Rico. So that was flying, of course. How was the logistics in getting there and staying? Did you do a pre-cruz stay or did you fly in day of? How did that work?

1:55.5

Yeah, we started out of Minneapolis and we flew to Chicago and connected to another flight down to San Juan, Puerto Rico.

2:02.5

And it was a long flight, lots of hours.

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