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495 Regal Princess Caribbean Review + Cruise News | Princess Cruises

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

We get a review of a 10-night cruise on Regal Princess. This was a repositioning cruise that started in New York City and ended in Port Everglades, Florida. Jim gives us a bow to stern review of the ship and what it's like sailing solo on Regal Princess.

Sherry has cruise news: 

  • Follow up to the Norwegian Joy $50 million refurbishment 
  • The Grinch tried to steal Carnival Spirit earlier this week
  • Royal Caribbean issues a San Juan update
  • Princess Cruises places an order for two mega ships 
  • Celebrity Cruises cuts steel for next ship 
  • Warning for cruisers in Nassau - don't eat the conch
  • Listener question: spending the day at Princess Cay
  • Take the Carnival trivia challenge here

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0:00.0

This is Cruise Radio.

0:02.3

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0:05.2

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0:08.4

Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

0:13.1

This is Cruise Radio.

0:15.2

Hey, how's it going?

0:15.9

My name is Doug Parker.

0:16.8

Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

0:18.8

Very happy to have you here, my friend.

0:20.6

A review of Regal Princess coming up today from Jim. Also, Sherry Laskin stopping by with Cruise News and answering one of your listener questions. Let's see what else we have going on here. Episode 495 today. Yeah, wow. Just five episodes away from 500. It's been a hell of a nine years, huh? All right. So let's get right to Sherry. Hey, Sherry.

0:38.7

Hey, Doug. Did I hear you say 500 episodes you're coming up to? You know, I was just consolidating my

0:44.8

files on Dropbox. And I've done over 1,500 interviews between you, Stuart, the guests who have called

0:50.7

in giving ship reviews and doing onboard broadcasts and then ports,

0:54.4

it's pretty wild.

0:56.3

That's pretty amazing.

0:57.5

It reminds me of them once a year ago again, a Frazier episode for his 1000s show.

1:03.8

And so you're kind of up to your 500s pretty soon.

1:06.5

You'll be surpassing Frazier.

1:08.7

Yeah, you've got to have dreams, right?

1:10.3

So right to the cruise news here.

1:11.8

So last week we were talking about Norwegian Joy undergoing a $50 million renovation when she

1:16.9

leaves China and comes to the U.S.

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