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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Cruise Radio is being released a day early this week because of Hurricane Florence.

We get a review of MSC Cruises' newest ship to the Caribbean MSC Seaside. This was a seven-night Eastern Caribbean cruise.

Matt from Royal Caribbean Blog fills us in on the ship that is taking shelter from Hurricane Florence in Florida.

Action News Meteorologist Greg Dee answers some hurricane questions on tracking these storms, how rough it gets in the ocean, and a couple pieces of advice for cruising during hurricane season.

Richard Simms has cruise news on:

Carnival Cruise Line's steakhouse price hike
Norwegian Cruise Line's hull art for the upcoming Norwegian Encore
Nassau trying to improve their port, again
Listener question: First-time cruiser on Carnival, should I purchase the beverage package.

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.3	Those hurricanes are brewing out there.
0:04.0	Don't forget travel insurance.
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0:08.4	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:12.8	This is Cruise Radio.
0:15.5	Hey, how's it going?
0:16.2	My name is Doug Parker.
0:17.1	Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio, a review of MSC seaside today.
0:22.4	Also, action news meteorologist Greg D stops by to answer some questions about cruising during hurricane season.
0:28.7	Richard Sims is standing by with cruise news.
0:30.9	Before we get to Richard, I wanted to catch up with Matt Hodgeberg from Royal Caribbean blog,
0:35.1	because there is a Royal Caribbean ship that is seeking shelter in Florida because of Hurricane Florence right now.
0:41.9	Hey, Doug, after a pretty quiet start to the 2018 hurricane season here in the Atlantic, things have picked up with grandeur of the seas.
0:48.8	It's so far the only Royal Caribbean ship to be affected by a storm this year. And Hurricane Florence caused Grand Jury's itinerary to be changed not once but twice.
0:57.1	Initially, she was supposed to do with just a five-night cruise from Baltimore, Maryland, going to Bermuda.
1:02.4	And when Florence was a hurricane the first time and was considered to be quite a sizable storm,
1:08.3	Royal Caribbean took the preemptive measure of moving the ship down to
1:11.3	the Bahamas. And instead of doing a stay in Bermuda, she was going to do an overnight stay in
1:16.2	Nassau Bahamas to just, you know, basically steer well clear of the path. Well, as it turned out,
1:21.6	not only is Florence a big storm, but she's also going to be still coming right in on that
1:27.4	area and really blocking the return of Grandeur of the Sea. So as a result, Grandview But she's also going to be still coming right in on that area.
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