497 Mariner of the Seas Bahamas Review + Cruise News | Royal Caribbean

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Doug Parker

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We get a review of Royal Caribbean's newly refurbished Mariner of the Seas. Don recently took a three-night Bahamas cruise that stopped in Nassau, Bahamas and the cruise line's private island Coco Cay. We get a detailed review of CoCo Cay, a construction update, and what it was like sailing this newly refurbished cruise ship.

Sherry has cruise news on:

A Carnival crew found unresponsive
The talk of passenger fuel surcharges as the price of oil increases
Princess Cruises has a burger available on land
Royal Caribbean had the largest movie premiere at sea

Listener questions on:

Bringing two bottles of wine onboard
ATM onboard cruise ships
Getting to St. John from St. Thomas

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.4	I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance.
0:05.4	You should too.
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0:10.2	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:14.9	This is Cruise Radio.
0:17.0	Hey, how's it going?
0:17.8	My name is Doug Parker.
0:18.6	Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:20.7	Very happy to have you here, my friend.
0:22.5	Coming up on this week's show, we'll get a review of Mariner of the Seas from Don Buccolo. Also, Sherry Kennedy, stopping by with Cruise News. So something new, I've been testing out for about the past month or so, and it's called the Cruise Radio News Weekend Update or Flash Briefings, whatever
0:38.2	you want to call it, 90-second news briefs I'm doing on Sunday morning. So the reason why I was
0:43.7	testing that, a lot of people asking, yo, Doug, what's up? That is because I was in a process
0:49.1	of building an Amazon Alexa skill for Flash Briefings. So now if you have an Amazon Echo or an Amazon Echo
0:57.4	dot, you can subscribe to the Cruise Radio flash briefings on there, and you can get daily
1:03.4	updates of the cruise news. So for an example, this is a briefing from earlier in the week.
1:08.2	Alexa, play my flash briefing. Here's your flash briefing in Cruise
1:12.3	Radio News. With oil prices on the rise, could cruise lines reinstate their fuel surcharge?
1:17.3	Cruise lines can implement a fuel surcharge at their own discretion, especially when it becomes
1:23.7	as close to $70 a barrel benchmark as it is right now. That was Sherry Laskin from cruismaven.com. So there you have it. If you have an Amazon Echo or an Echo dot, all you have to do is open your Amazon Alexa app and search the Cruise Radio News skill in there and just click Enable. And you'll be all set there to have your flash briefings. Now, I realize not everyone has an echo or echo
1:45.0	dot. So with that being said, if you'd like me to upload those news briefings on the feed or create
1:51.7	another feed for them for you to subscribe to, I'm happy to do that. I just don't want to, I don't want
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