490 Enchantment of the Seas Bahamas Review + Cruise News | Royal Caribbean
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 21 June 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Hear a three-night review of Royal Caribbean Enchantment of the Seas to Bahamas. These short cruises are known as booze cruises because they are done over the weekend and attract a younger crowd. Although Dante was skeptical taking this as his first Royal Caribbean cruise, he was surprised.
Sherry has cruise news on:
- Cruise was slapped with a $14,000 data roaming bill
- Technical issue delays Carnival Magic and cancels a port of call
- A refurbished Royal Caribbean ship now calls Florida home
- Royal Caribbean purchases major stake in luxury cruise line
- Brand new cruise ships left in 2018
Listener question on changing your set dining time.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:02.3 | 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, my friend. |
| 0:25.3 | Coming up on this week's show, we'll get a review of Royal Caribbean's Enchantment of the Seas from Dante. |
| 0:31.9 | Also, Sherry Kennedy, standing by with Cruise News, and to answer one of your listener questions about dining on a cruise ship. |
| 0:36.7 | Before we get to Sherry, don't forget, our Cruise Radio YouTube channel now launched. |
| 0:38.3 | You can see how bad I suck doing video. Just check out Cruise Radio on YouTube or I'll link to it in the show notes at |
| 0:42.8 | cruiseradio.net. All right, Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. Hey, Sherry. |
| 0:47.6 | Hey, Doug. So I want to start off with this story because I've been there kind of. A cruiser got |
| 0:52.3 | slapped with a $14,000 cell phone bill for data roaming on a cruise. |
| 0:57.4 | What are the details here? |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah, this was a German family on a cruise, and their 12-year-old son had access to his iPhone or his smart device, whatever it was. |
| 1:08.2 | And he connected to the ship's phone network, of course, went to the satellite, |
| 1:13.5 | and he did a lot of data downloading. |
| 1:16.7 | So, you know, in Germany it's different. |
| 1:19.2 | If you're in the EU, you know, you can go from country to country |
| 1:23.5 | and not rack up any charges. |
| 1:25.3 | But this poor kid, his company ended up charging $30 |
| 1:29.7 | per megabyte for downloaded data. So the movies he watched led up to a $14,000 phone bill. |
| 1:38.4 | Now, the good news is that, you know, like you and I have both done here, we, you know, |
| 1:43.7 | appeal our case to AT&T or |
| 1:45.6 | our carrier. And I know we've both been lucky getting the bill knocked down quite a bit. Well, |
| 1:52.0 | they got the bill knocked down from 14,000, but only to 6,000. So, yeah, it's an $8,000 savings, |
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