412: Allure of the Seas Review, Group Shore Excursions + Cruise News | Royal Caribbean

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we get a review of Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas, one of the largest ships in the world, based in Port Everglades, Florida. Hear all about Ben's seven-night Western Caribbean cruise.

Sheila from Cruising Excursions joins us to give us the benefits of booking a group shore excursions. Turns out booking a shore excursion with a group is cheaper than booking on your own.

Sherry has cruise news on:

Carnival getting a new cruise ship
Norwegian Cruise Line launching another $50 deposit sale
Norwegian opening Cuba cruises up
Carnival Liberty back at the Space Coast
MSC Seaside counts down to Florida

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0:14.6	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:18.9	This is Cruise Radio.
0:21.4	Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, what's up?
0:22.1	My name is Doug Parker.
0:23.1	Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:25.3	Merry Christmas.
0:26.1	Happy holidays.
0:27.4	Cannot believe it's already the end of the year.
0:29.7	This is insane.
0:31.2	Yeah.
0:31.9	So on this show, a review of Allure of the Seas, also answering some listener questions about group shore excursions,
0:39.8	I didn't realize that if you book more shore excursions, it's actually cheaper. So we'll speak to the
0:44.0	folks over at cruising excursions.com to answer your shore excursion questions. All right, Sherry Kennedy
0:49.9	has cruise news. Hey, Sherry. Hey, Doug. So we briefly talked about it last week, but another ship
0:55.2	for Carnival Cruise Line and one leave-in. What do you have on this, Sherry? Yeah, Carnival just announced
1:00.4	that they will build a third Vista-class ship, said to come on the market late in 2019. And this comes
1:07.8	after Sister Cruise Line P&O from Australia scrapped their plans for a new build
1:13.2	because apparently the Australian market hasn't boomed as much as they anticipated.
1:18.7	So that's why Carnival will get this new Vista class ship making it number three following Vista
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