413: Koningsdam Review + Cruise News | Holland American Line
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Marcia just returned from Holland America Line's newest ships, ms Koningsdam. Koningsdam, a ship that debuted earlier this year, is now based in Port Everglades after her European summer season.
Sherry has cruise news on:
- Star Wars at sea returns
- Boss takes 800 employees on cruise
- Fathom DR sailings now stopping in Cuba
- Royal Caribbean told, "the ship is too big to dock here!"
- Listener question: getting a cruise refund before final payment
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| 0:18.8 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:39.4 | Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this last episode of 2016. Very happy to have you here, my friend. On this episode, a review of Holland America's Koningsdam. I know what you're thinking. Oh, gosh, a Holland America review. It's an old person's cruise ship. I'm going to tune tune out how about you not tune out and listen to it you know why because this ship is so food so |
| 0:44.1 | music and so wine heavy it's gonna make you happy maybe buzzed and definitely full so |
| 0:50.2 | check this out that's really corny but check me But check the review out here in a little while. |
| 1:31.1 | And don't forget to check out Cruise Radio News. It's our Cruise Radio Facebook group. Kick around the Cruise News. Ask some questions. Whatever you want, it's in there. Just type in Cruise Radio News in Facebook. All right. Hey, Sherry. Hi, Doug. Before we get to Cruz News, I do want to pay some respect, Sherry, to George Michael, to Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, all who lost her life in the past seven days. It's just been rough, so thoughts and prayers to the families involved. And a weirdly related story, Disney Cruise Line, bringing back Star Wars at Sea. What do you have on this, Sherry? That's true. They just announced that it's going to bring back there. I guess it was supremely popular Star Wars Day at Sea celebration. It's going to be on 15 sailings aboard the Disney |
| 1:36.8 | Fantasy in 2017. It will be sailing out of Port Canaveral, alternating eastern and western |
| 1:44.1 | Caribbean cruises. |
| 1:45.6 | And they'll bring back all of their events that they had before and tweak some other |
| 1:50.6 | ones. |
| 1:51.0 | They're going to have deck parties and character meet and greets. |
| 1:55.7 | They'll have Star Wars themed family and kids' activities. |
| 1:59.3 | And this is kind of weird, special food and drinks with what I think are kind of odd |
| 2:03.3 | sounding names like Calrissian Velvet Cake and the ever popular Sand People Salad. |
| 2:11.4 | That's awesome. |
| 2:12.5 | Yeah, that's awesome. |
| 2:13.7 | It's pretty cool. |
| 2:14.5 | And you can expect to see a lot of characters on board, of course, |
| 2:18.1 | and amongst those will be Darth Vader, Kylo Ren, good old Chewy, R2D2, and some other |
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