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378 Carnival Splendor Review + Cruise Parking | Carnival Cruise Line

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 28 April 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Tina and her two kids just returned from a seven-night Caribbean cruise aboard Carnival Splendor, one of Carnival Cruise Line's Fun Ship. On this seven night sailing they hit the eastern Caribbean and got a complete run of the ship. Hear her thoughts on everything from embarkation to excursions, and everything in between. 

Cruise Guy has cruise news on: 

  • Carnival Magic officially in Port Canaveral (with Guy's BBQ Joint)
  • Empress of the Seas cancels seven more sailings - what's wrong? 
  • MSC details more of MSC Seaside - what will we see? 
  • Koningsdam is officially on her inaugural sailing 
  • Fathom makes inaugural call in DR

We check in with Go Port Canaveral and get the latest information on Port Canaveral, the dollar parking increase at the port, and pre- and post-cruise hotels. 

Thoughts or reviews? Email me: [email protected] 
 
Find in-depth cruise news and ship reviews at https://cruiseradio.net

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0:10.0

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0:16.3

This is. This is Cruise Radio.

0:19.9

Hey, what's up? My name isoug parker thank you so much for checking

0:22.5

out this episode of cruise radio very happy to have you here my friend coming up later on in the show

0:27.1

we're going to review of carnival splendor from tina we'll also talk about parking at port canaveral

0:32.5

in the hotels down there and also stewart she were on the cruise guy standing about with cruise news

0:37.1

get to him in just a couple of seconds. Some housekeeping things first. Don't forget, we are on Snapchat. Look us up at Cruise Radio. Also, hook up with us on our Facebook group. Just type in Cruise Radio News on Facebook and talk some cruise talk with us. Love to have you. All right, Stuart, Shear on the cruise guy. What's up, Stuart?

0:55.5

Hey, Doug. How's it going? Good, man. So Carnival Magic has left Galveston, Texas,

1:00.3

and is now joining us here in Florida. What's the latest with her?

1:04.2

Well, Carnival Magic, as you said, has left Galveston, Texas, and is now in Florida.

1:10.4

So where Carnival Dream once was, Carnival Sunshine, now they're ringing over Carnival Magic

1:15.8

to grace the sunshiny beaches there in Port Canaveral.

1:22.1

She will be doing seven-night eastern and western Caribbean to some nice ports, and she's got a few nice upgrades for people

1:30.7

looking to sail out of Central Florida.

1:32.7

Now, when you say nice upgrades, you're talking about one of the guys' barbecue joints?

1:37.7

Yeah, the barbecue joint, not the burger joint, but the barbecue joint.

1:41.5

Is there a guys' burger joint on Carnival Magic?

1:44.4

There is, and it's right by the blue iguana and red frog by the pool and Lido,

1:51.0

and the barbecue is taking over for Jimmy's barbecue on the promenade deck.

1:56.6

And, you know, from the pictures we've seen, it looks like quite an extravaganza.

2:00.8

Royal Caribbean's Empress of the Seas now, they had this ship years ago, deployed it to a sister line, brought it back to the Royal Caribbean fleet, but they keep canceling sailings.

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