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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Tina gives us a Norwegian Sun review. She recently did a four-night re-positioning cruise from Vancouver to San Diego. She shares her experience on the cruise, the dining, entertainment, and what she thought of Norwegian Sun overall.

Terry Thornton works with planning and itineraries with Carnival Cruise Line. He joins us to talk about Carnival going to Cuba this summer, what we can expect on the sailings, and details the itineraries.

We get a soundbyte from Holland America Line President Orlando Ashford on their new partnership with The Oprah Magazine and her Alaska sailing she's doing on the ms Eurodam this summer.

Cruise Guy has news on:

Carnival Cruise Line going to Havana, Cuba

Royal Caribbean's Majesty of the Seas briefly shut down by the Coast Guard

MSC Cruises bringing more ships to America and the response

Carnival Dream undergoing a multi-million dollar dry dock

Thoughts or reviews? Email me: [email protected]

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0:14.6	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:18.8	This is Cruise Radio.
0:21.7	Hey, what's up?
0:22.6	My name is Doug Parker.
0:23.5	Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:25.6	Very happy to have you here.
0:26.9	Big, big week this week.
0:28.3	Norwegian Cruise Line just announced four new cruise ships, Carnival Cruise Line.
0:32.7	Now heading to Cuba following Fathom and Norwegian and Royal Caribbean.
0:37.3	What else is happening? Holland America
0:38.6	partnered with the Oprah Magazine. So Oprah is doing some sailings to Alaska. We'll get a couple of
0:43.3	soundbites on that later. Stuart Sheeron, the cruise guy, is standing by also Norwegian Sun Review
0:49.2	coming up. I am out of breath. Let's get right to it. Terry Thornton is with itinerary planning
0:54.0	a Carnival cruise line. Carnival just got approval to sail to Cuba, so Terry's here to answer some of our questions this morning. Good morning, Terry. Good morning, Doug. Thanks so much for spending a little time this morning. So it was just announced that Carnival Paradise will be going to Cuba. A lot of cruise lines are slash we'll be going to Cuba. What makes carnival stand out from those other lines?
1:12.3	We are so excited about the opportunity to go to Cuba on our cruise.
1:16.2	But what our guests can expect is that our crews will be all of the fabulous food, the entertainment, the great hospitality, the great service that provided our crew that we have on all of our carnival cruises.
1:27.3	And in addition to that, now they're going to have a great new destination to try with Havana. So we think it's a perfect combination. And we are a very different brand than the other cruise lines out there. So Carnival Paradise is going to be sailing out of Tampa. Now, this may be an obvious question, but I want to get your perspective on it. What makes Cuba such a sought out destination?
1:47.4	I think that Cuba offers so many things in terms of what is very different than other destinations throughout the Caribbean.
1:54.3	It obviously has tremendous history.
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