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501 Explorer of the Seas Alaska Review + Cruise News | Royal Caribbean

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We get a review of Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas. This was a seven-night Alaska cruise from Seattle. 

Richard Simms has cruise news on:

  • Flooding at the port of Galveston
  • Carnival Cruise Line dismissed a dining rumor
  • Carnival Corporation christened their largest ship to day 
  • Norwegian Sun has wrapped up their Cuba season 
  • Carnival guests could soon be paying more to sail out of Port Canaveral 
  • Listener question on the best time to embark a cruise from New York City

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0:00.0

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0:02.3

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0:04.0

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0:05.5

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0:08.2

Here we go.

0:09.2

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

0:13.8

This is Cruise Radio.

0:16.5

How's it going?

0:17.0

My name is Doug Parker.

0:17.9

Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

0:20.3

Very happy to have you here.

0:21.9

A review of Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas this week. Also, Richard Sims is here with Cruise News.

0:28.1

Sherry Laskin is still trekking around Alaska. I think she'll be back next week, if I'm not mistaken.

0:33.3

It could be the week after that, though. Real quick here, before we get to Richard, cruise radio news, if you don't have it on Amazon Alexa or an Alexa enabled device, you can subscribe to our Cruise Radio News podcast feed.

0:46.2

It's separate from this one, but it's Monday through Friday updates.

0:50.0

Just really quick 90-second news briefs.

0:52.5

If you want to check that out, that is Cruise Radio News. Just type it in however you're listening to this, and it is a separate feed. All right, Richard Sims is here with Cruise News. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug, thanks for having me. So Gavleston, Texas experienced some crazy flooding on Monday. What happened here? You know, weather happened, basically. You know, we're seeing

1:12.6

more and more of that. You see extreme weather all the time. To me, what was really cool about this

1:17.2

story was it sort of showed the indomitable spirit of cruisers. You know, they were going to get on

1:23.6

that ship come, well, literally come hell or high water, because the water was high,

1:28.2

and they weren't going to stop. We saw, you know, the videos of people trudging through water

1:32.3

up to their, like, like sometimes up to their knees and carrying their suitcases and just getting

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