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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

493 Carnival Imagination Review 2018 + Cruise News | Carnival Cruise Line

Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Doug Parker

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Krista and her family just returned from a four-night cruise on Carnival Imagination out of Long Beach. Her family took this cruise because they wanted to go to California. The cruise went to Catalina Island and Ensenada, Mexico. We get a comprehensive review of the ship, itinerary, and her first time taking a Carnival Cruise since they implemented the new boarding process. 

Sherry has cruise news on: 

  • Tragedy on a zip line in the Caribbean
  • Norwegian Bliss add new go-kart pricing 
  • Carnival changing their military cancellation policy 
  • St. Maarten photo opp lands cruisers in hot water 
  • Hurricane Chris update 
  • Listener question: Cruising to Alaska without passports 
  • Listener question: How is onboard credit distributed 

Thoughts or questions? doug@cruiseradio.net 

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This is Cruise Radio.

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Hey, how's it going?

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My name is Doug Parker.

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Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Happy to have you here. A review of Carnival Imagination today. Yeah, so we're going out to Long Beach for this one. A little departure from our normal Caribbean cruise itineraries. Haven't heard from imagination in a while. So I'm excited to talk to Krista here in a little bit. Sherry Kennedy, standing by with

0:38.2

Cruise News. Don't forget, we are on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and our newly launched

0:44.7

YouTube channel, all at Cruise Radio. You can find us there. That's our handle. And as always,

0:49.4

if you'd like to submit a review and be interviewed on this show, drop me a line, Doug at cruiseradio.net.

0:56.4

All righty, she is here. Sherry, how are you?

0:59.2

Hi, Doug.

1:00.0

So starting off with some sad news over in Roatan.

1:03.5

Yeah, this is very sad news.

1:05.2

A honeymoon couple from Israel was aboard the allure of the seas, and when they stopped in

1:10.3

Roatan, they decided to try the

1:12.4

ziplining excursion. The 27-year-old woman, her zipline ride stopped part way across.

1:19.1

Her husband left the base to go across, not knowing that his wife was stopped in the middle,

1:23.7

and, of course, there was a collision. Both were sent to the hospital, but sadly the husband

1:28.4

passed away from his injuries and the wife is in hospital back in the United States.

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