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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2017

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

This week we get a review of Norwegian Cruise Line's Pride of America. Tommy Casabona stops by from the Always Be Book podcast to talk this past week's solar eclipse.

Sherry Kennedy has cruise news:

Carnival extending their sailings to Cuba
Carnival is testing a new port day menu
Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas has dreaded technical issues
San Juan is seeing record cruise traffic

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EDITED TO REMOVE TROPICAL STORM STORY ON AUG 24.

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0:24.1	Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. On this episode, we'll get a review of
0:29.4	Norwegian Cruise Lines, Pride of America, as they do their seven-night sailings over there in Hawaii.
0:34.5	They're actually over there year-round and it's becoming quite popular,
0:41.9	so excited to chat about that a little later on in the show. Tommy Casabona from the Always Be Booked podcast, stopping by to give his thoughts on these past week's eclipse. Also, Sherry Kennedy
0:47.0	here with Cruise News. So let's jump right to it. Hey, Sherry. Hey, Doug. You're in Sweet Home Chicago,
0:51.9	huh? I am. It's so nice to be home, even though Florida is home. This is also my home. How long would you live there for? I was here for 32 years. Oh, well, I'm sure they're happy to see you. Right to the cruise news, Carnival Cruise Line doing more sailings to Cuba. They are. Carnival Paradise will have five more Cuba cruises from Tampa Tampa starting in 2018. And the five new voyages
1:13.9	include three, that will be five-day cruises, obviously, to Havana. And then on to Key West or Cozumel.
1:21.7	There's going to be one in February, July, and September of 2018. There's going to be one six-day cruise to Havana and Grand Cayman
1:30.8	in August of 2018. And the last one is a longer eight-day cruise that will also include
1:38.6	Kozumel and Grand Cayman. And that's also in August. All the cruises will spend a day long call in Havana, but the
1:46.8	longer one will have an overnight. So they will have almost two full days there. Carnival Cruise Line is
1:52.2	also testing a new breakfast menu. There's going to be a new breakfast menu and is currently
1:56.7	being tested aboard the Carnival Victory and the victory sales out of Miami.
2:05.7	You know, it's a lot of it is to help people get a quick start to their day with a full breakfast. And there's a feature called Express Breakfast, which they promise you'll get
2:11.2	served within 25 minutes and you can leave. And that includes the typical eggs, some kind of breakfast meat, juice, and the sortment of rolls.
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