482 MSC Meraviglia Review + Cruise News | MSC Cruises
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 26 April 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week we get a review of MSC Meraviglia, a ship that was introduced by MSC Cruises in 2016. Dr. Kris gives us a comprehensive review of the ship, his thoughts on the layout, the ports of call, and how the service was sailing MSC Cruises in the western Mediterranean.
Sherry Kennedy has cruise news on:
- A cruise ship hitting the pier in Honduras
- Norwegian Cruise Line's Bliss being delivered
- Carnival Cruise Line cutting back on the use of straws
- Listener Question: The best way to stay in touch with family when docking in port.
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More cruise industry news and insight at www.cruiseradio.net.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:22.6 | If you're traveling with travel insurance, you're traveling smart. Get a quote 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. We're going to get a review of MSC's Miravilla today. |
| 0:27.4 | We'll also have Sherry Kennedy with Cruise News and answer one of your questions about staying connected while you're in port with your loved ones back home. |
| 0:30.8 | If you want to catch any of our Carnival Horizon coverage, check it out on our website at |
| 0:34.9 | cruiseradio.net. |
| 0:36.1 | Also have some coverage coming up from Royal Caribbean Symphony of the Seas in Norwegian Bliss, doing that one on next Thursday. |
| 0:43.1 | Going to go up there for two days in New York City. |
| 0:45.0 | So super excited about that. |
| 0:47.2 | Jumping right to Sherry Kennedy, who is over in Europe. |
| 0:49.7 | Hey, Sherry. |
| 0:50.8 | Hey, Doug. |
| 0:51.6 | Where in Europe are you today? |
| 0:53.8 | In a little France, R-O-U-E-N. |
| 0:58.2 | You've been gone for, like, yeah, what, three or four weeks now? |
| 1:00.9 | Is it, does it get tiring at all, or is it more of excitement going from place to place to place? |
| 1:06.1 | It's a little tiring, a lot exciting. |
| 1:08.7 | Going to new territory this week. We're heading to tomorrow. |
| 1:13.6 | Actually, it's a long, almost a 10-hour bus day to get to Omaha Beach. Yeah, the landing was June 6, |
| 1:23.0 | 1944, so next year is the 75th anniversary. That's got to be an emotional day for you. It's going to be an emotional day for everyone, I think. But for me, too. Yeah, wow. Well, it's a cruise news here. A cruise ship went through the pier in Honduras. What happened here? And this is one of those odd stories that you really don't know what happened here. It was the MSC Armonia, and it was trying |
| 1:45.1 | to dock at the pier at Cox and Hole in Rootan, like you said. And apparently, you know, people on |
| 1:51.4 | shore were watching this or people on board were videoing it. And, of course, it went viral. And, you |
| 1:57.6 | know, it's like, we've seen this before where a ship just doesn't quite make it to a complete stop to docket appear. |
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