373 Carnival Sunshine Review + Cruise News | Carnival Cruise Line
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2016
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Tommy just returned from a eight-night Southern Caribbean aboard Carnival Cruise Line's Carnival Sunshine. Hear a comprehensive review of this recently remodeled ship.
Stewart has cruise news:
- Carnival Corp approved Cuba
- Empress of the Seas canceled six sailings
- Norwegian Gem turned away from St M cause of Noro
- Holland America expands Mexico sailings
- Man sues Disney over missing thumb
- Carnival Triumph heads to New Orleans after four years
Listener question about a canceled sailing.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Cruise Radio is brought to you in part by Tripinsurance.com. Travel insurance done right by the people who know travel insurance. Get a quote today at tripinsurance.com. |
| 0:10.2 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.2 | Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:21.0 | Very happy to have you here. Coming up on this week's show, we'll get a review of Carnival Sunshine from our buddy Tommy. |
| 0:27.1 | He just returned from an eight-night southern Caribbean sailing aboard sunshine, so he has to be good, the bad, and the Tommy time on his sailing. |
| 0:36.9 | Can't wait to catch up with Tommy here in a bit. |
| 0:39.4 | Stuart, Sharon, the cruise guy standing by with Cruise News. |
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| 1:12.3 | so we'll get right to it. Carnival Corp approved for sailings to Cuba. Talk to us about this. |
| 1:18.6 | Well, this has been imminent for some time that Carnival was going to be granted the approval on the Cuban side. |
| 1:30.3 | If you recall, they already had the approval on the U.S. side. |
| 1:36.0 | And so to begin their sailings, which they do have scheduled for May 1st, |
| 1:42.1 | that the first sailing is now going to happen, and, you know, the second, third, |
| 1:47.7 | they're all going. |
| 1:49.3 | And so essentially with their new brand, Favom Cruises, they're going to have the 710 passenger |
| 1:56.3 | adonia doing seven-night cruises to Cuba from Miami, stopping Havana, Santiago, and Sienfuegos. |
| 2:06.6 | So it's a very exciting opportunity for the industry to begin to finally take advantage. |
| 2:13.9 | This will be the first time in over 50 years that a cruise ship has sailed |
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