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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

We get a review of Cuba cruise on Royal Caribbean's Empress of the Seas. This was a four night cruise to Cuba that also went to Nassau, Bahamas. If you've ever thought about taking a cruise to Cuba or have one booked, you'll want to listen to this review.

Sherry has cruise news on:

Bahamas is cutting the cash supply off to the cruise lines
Carnival Cruise Line is raising daily gratuities
Princess Cruises makes an unexpected change to their traditional dining times?
A tattoo studio is coming to one cruise line
MSC Cruises is entering the ultra luxury market

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.0	Do yourself a favor, and always cruise with travel insurance.
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0:09.0	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:13.8	This is Cruise Radio.
0:15.8	All right, we're on.
0:16.9	How's it going?
0:17.5	My name is Doug Parker.
0:18.4	Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:21.6	A review of Empress of the Seas this week on a four-night Cuba cruise out of Miami. So Crystal stopping by in a bit to talk
0:27.7	about that. We have Simone from Cruisingexcourions.com to answer some of your short excursion questions.
0:33.4	Sherry Laskin from Cruisemaven.com standing by to talk cruise news before we get to Sherry. A couple of things.
0:38.9	Our Cruise Radio News Facebook group, coming there and kick around the cruise conversation with us.
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0:49.0	And listen to Cruise Radio News Briefs, like 90 seconds, Monday through Friday Friday love to have you there all right hey
0:54.9	sherry hi Doug so our first story is very polarizing you're either on one side or the other on it
0:59.8	and the the Bahamas government was paying the cruise lines an incentive to come visit their island
1:05.0	and they've cut the cruise lines off so how much were they paying them and what does this mean
1:09.6	well what's happened in the
1:11.2	past is government of the Bahamas has given $12 million a year as incentive to the cruise lines
1:18.0	to include Nassau on their itineraries. But the problem now is that everybody goes to Nassau
1:25.1	and too many people are choosing to stay on board,
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