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🗓️ 5 May 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Brad and his wife just returned from a seven-night Eastern Caribbean sailing on Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas. Normally a Disney and Carnival cruiser, Brad shares his first experience on Royal Caribbean. Hear a bow to stern review of this mega cruise ship.
I'm a huge fan of ShipMate App. It lets you do a cruise countdown, check out reviews, cruise ship photos, maps, and more. Within the past year they added a cruise price drop alert letting people know when their cruise fare drops. I talk to the founder of ShipMate App to give us the details on this.
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0:19.9 | 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, my friend. So glad you're along. On this episode, we'll get a review of Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas. Yeah, one of the world's largest cruise ships. I think there's like three of them now, Harmony, Oasis, and Allure. And standing by in just a |
0:38.5 | couple of seconds is Mike Jureau, the founder of Shipmate app. He's going to talk to us how we can set |
0:43.6 | a price drop and monitor our cruise fare so we can get a price adjustment or on board credits. |
0:49.3 | So Mike's standing by. A couple of housekeeping things. Stuart Sheeraner on the cruise guide is down |
0:53.7 | in Cuba this week, so he'll be back next week. |
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1:09.7 | If you have a question that you need answered about your cruise, shoot me an email, Doug, at cruiserrady.net. If I can't answer it, I'll find someone who can, like Mike Drew of Shipmate App. He is going to field some questions today about setting price alerts for your upcoming cruise. He's on the line right now. How you doing, Mike? Doing very well. How you doing, Doug? It's been a while. |
1:28.5 | Yeah, yeah. It sure has like a year or so you were on the show talking about the price drop alerts for the first time. So we're going to kind of circle back and retouch on that with some listener questions. But before we get to that, talk to us about what Chipmate app is and what it does. We built chip made about five years ago. It's a mobile app for the iOS and Android and |
1:29.2 | Amazon platform. is and what it does? We built ship made about five years ago. It's a mobile app for the iOS and |
1:46.0 | Android and Amazon platform. Our users are using it to get prepared for their upcoming cruise and |
1:52.7 | excited for that cruise. They can see who's on their sailing. They can explore their ship, |
1:56.8 | their ports, converse with other cruisers, and we have a whole bunch of other features in there. |
2:01.6 | First listener question, Mike, is how do I set a cruise price drop alert? |
2:06.6 | So after your reservation is made, you can save your cruise on either our shipmate app or |
2:12.6 | on our website, cruiseline.com. And that's all you have to do. |
2:17.7 | Once you have that saved, we'll monitor that for you, |
2:20.8 | and we'll pin you as soon as that price drops by at least 1%. |
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