449 Hurricane Irma Damage + Carnival Victory Western Caribbean Review

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 7 September 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we talk with Cruiseline.com Community Manager Simon Duvall about Hurricane Irma and which Caribbean islands have been impacted so far.

We touch on what a travel insurance policy might cover in a natural disaster situation like this.

Also a review from Ford of a western Caribbean cruise aboard Carnival Victory.

Cruise News:

Carnival Corporation donates to Hurricane Harvey relief efforts
Port Canaveral is building a new pier
Carnival Horizon to have Teppanyaki specialty restaurant

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.3	This podcast is brought to you by Tripinsurance.com.
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0:13.4	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:17.6	This is.
0:18.8	This is Cruise Radio.
0:25.6	Hey, what's up? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. On this episode, kind of a little different. I'm going to be completely honest with you.
0:31.6	So I had another show pre-recorded because I just got back from Venice from 10 days over there, like literally
0:39.1	20 hours ago maybe or so at this point. So I was going to do a pre-recorded show, but this
0:45.0	hurricane Irma is creating some crazy havoc in the Caribbean. So I want to just kind of talk about
0:52.6	the islands that it has hit and it has impacted.
0:55.6	I don't want to talk about where it's really going because we really don't know. And as I'm
0:59.7	recording this, it's 1130 on Wednesday evening. So without any further ado, I have Simon Duval.
1:07.0	He's a community manager over at cruisline.com joining me to help cover this today.
1:11.1	So, Simon, welcome to the show, man.
1:12.6	Hi, Doug. Glad to be here to help share this information with your listeners.
1:15.6	Yeah, absolutely. And just for the listeners' sake and for clarity, we're actually
1:19.6	filming this, rather, in Simon's loft here in downtown Orlando. I flew in last night and I came
1:25.4	straight here. So anyway, so yes, Simon, Hurricane Irma, those
1:29.3	pictures today, man, 185 mile an hour winds. Guss up to 225 miles an hour. It's incredible.
1:36.2	Yeah, it's amazing to me that what, like, you know, you think of these islands out in the Caribbean
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