437 Liberty of the Seas Western Caribbean Review + Cruise News | Royal Caribbean
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This interview proves that not everyone books a cruise based on the itinerary. James and his wife just returned from a Western Caribbean cruise on Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas, and barely got off the ship! He gives us a comprehensive review of the ship, dining, entertainment on the ship, and the ports of call on this Caribbean cruise.
Sherry Kennedy has cruise news:
- Carnival going to easy pay a payment option - how does this different from spreading your payments out?
- The world's largest cruise ship completes construction milestone.
- Pacific Princess is out of dry dock.
- NCL changes Free at Sea promo for Haven guests.
- Queen Victoria is out of dry dock. What refurbishments did she get?
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| 0:16.9 | Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio, where we'll get a review of Royal Caribbean's Liberty of the Seas. Also, Sherry Kennedy will be stopping by with Cruise News in just a couple of seconds. Before we get to Sherry, a big thank you to you. Cruise Radio had a record download month in May of 2017 where our numbers were like through their roof. So |
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| 0:55.1 | All right. Hey, Sherry. |
| 1:00.3 | Hey, Doug. So Carnival Cruise Line is going the route of an easy pay program where they're doing like this flex pay thing for when you book a cruise. How does this differ from just booking a cruise |
| 1:04.7 | and paying it off yourself? It's kind of a mindset game, sort of QVC like is how I referred to it. |
| 1:11.8 | The cruiser will make the deposit with one credit card or a debit card. |
| 1:16.9 | And then for the next three consecutive months on the same day with the same card, |
| 1:21.9 | the payments are calculated into quarters and it's paid off by the end of the fourth month. |
| 1:28.0 | And the difference, I guess it keeps some people maybe more disciplined. |
| 1:32.3 | You know, and they know, well, this will be paid for in four months, even though I'm not |
| 1:35.7 | going for a year and a half. |
| 1:36.8 | It'll be nice to just get it out of the way and it's done. |
| 1:40.3 | So I think, you know, it's for people that really cannot make the commitment on their |
| 1:46.0 | own to do the deposits, oh, I'll pay a little bit this week and some next week, and, you know, |
| 1:51.0 | it's up to final payment. They still owe, you know, a huge chunk of change on their cruise. So |
| 1:56.5 | I kind of like the idea. It's, you know, it's new, but I guess it's kind of old. |
| 2:02.6 | It goes back to what you say about discipline. I like the idea because I book so many |
| 2:07.1 | cruises so far in advance with reduced deposits. I've gotten in trouble where I've almost missed |
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