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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We get a review of Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Escape. Plus, Stewart has our weekly dose of cruise news and industry insight. 

Dan from TripInsurance.com answers questions on picking the right travel insurance policy.

Stewart has cruise news on: 

  • Vista and Breeze fail USPH inspection. 
  • Jumper on Carnival Triumph 
  • Norwegian Epic heading to San Juan 
  • Cruise stock prices are on the rise!
  • Celebrity Edge floats out 

Listener Question: Booking a future cruise and not knowing who you are going to bring.  

Thoughts or suggestions? Email me: doug@cruiseradio.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is Cruise Radio. Don't get caught up in an unexpected situation. Always travel with trip insurance. Find a policy today at tripinsurance.com. Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. We'll get a review of Norwegian Escape this week. Also, Dan Skokin from Tripinsurance.com here fielding some of your listener questions. Stuart Sheer on the cruise guy, standing by with cruise news. Let's see what else. Oh, yeah. We'll talk more about this in a couple of minutes, but a couple of Carnival Cruise Line ships that didn't pass the

0:37.6

USPH health inspection. So I reached out to the CDC in Atlanta, and I'm going to have someone

0:43.2

come on hopefully on next week's show and answer some questions about the vessel sanitation

0:47.9

program, what's required of the cruise ship that pass, what makes a cruise ship fail, and answer

0:53.6

some of the questions that

0:54.8

you've sent me. If you have a question, you want me to ask the CDC, shoot me an email, Doug, at cruiseradio.net. They are a government entity, so I'm kind of at their mercy of when they reply to me when they schedule with me. So with that said, Stuart Sheeran, the cruise guy is here. Hey, Stuart. Hey, Doug, how's it going?

0:51.6

Good, man. Gosh, right out of the gate with is here. Hey, Stuart. Hey, Doug. How's it going?

1:11.3

Good, man. Gosh, right out of the gate with some Carnival Cruise line news. Not a good

1:15.0

month for them. First off, Carnival Vista and Carnival Breeze fail a USPH inspection. What happened here?

1:21.6

Well, you know, it's unfortunate. They got inspected, and they just, they didn't do well.

1:28.7

And this obviously comes on the hills of Carnival Triumph.

1:33.2

It's a fluke.

1:35.4

It, you know, there's obviously no excuse.

1:38.0

They're not going to offer it.

1:40.0

What happened happened, they took immediate corrective measures.

1:43.7

And, I mean, to me, that's the end of it.

1:46.1

Am I concerned about going on any of the carnival ships? Absolutely not. I'd go on anyone, including these three ships tomorrow.

1:53.0

This next story, not a good one either. A passenger on Carnival Triumph was seen going over.

1:59.0

Yeah, unfortunately, a woman did go overboard on the second day of her five-night cruise.

2:06.9

And, I mean, they do have witnesses that said that they did see her go over.

2:13.2

Anyone's been on a cruise.

2:14.3

You know that the railings are high enough that you just don't

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