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512 Norwegian Pride of America 2018 Review + Cruise News | Norwegian Cruise Line

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

We get a review of Norwegian Cruise Line's Hawaii-based ship Pride of America. This ship sails year-round in Hawaii and even does overnights in select ports of call. We talk about the ship, the ports of call, and dining on the ship. 

In 2018, Hawaii was plagued with natural disasters like a volcano and bad storms. What a lot of people don't realize is how quickly it bounced back. After spending a week in Hawaii, Ashley from Cruise Critic stop by the give us a progress report. 


Sherry has cruise news on: 

  • Carnival Cruise Line changing their smoking policy
  • Symphony of the Seas was officially christened in Port Miami 
  • Celebrity Edge has arrived at her new home in Florida 
  • Carnival Cruise ship debuts a new fast food restaurant 
  • Norwegian Cruise Line ship breaks down in San Juan and sends passengers home

Listener Q: What island has better snorkeling: St. Kitts or Grand Turk?  

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

0:14.1

This is Cruise Radio.

0:16.7

Hey, how's it going?

0:17.4

My name is Doug Parker.

0:18.3

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

0:24.8

Very happy to have you here. Coming up on this week's show, we'll get a review of Norwegian Cruise Lines, Pride of America, the ship that sails Hawaii year-round. Also, a progress report after the

0:31.3

volcano in Hawaii and also the hurricane and tropical storms out there. Ashley Cushulik from

0:36.9

cruis critic.com stops by to get us up to speed with that.

0:40.4

Just returned from a 14-night sailing on board Carnival Breeze.

0:43.7

And I did eight different eastern and southern Caribbean ports and had five C-days there.

0:48.8

An amazing cruise.

0:50.3

And those, I mean, just hidden jewels down there in St.

0:53.4

Lucia, Tortola, St. John, Barbados.

0:57.7

I'll have a, we'll do a review of the ship and the destinations here in the next coming week.

1:01.7

So much to share with you.

1:03.0

But first things first, it's Sherry Laskin with Cruise News.

1:05.8

Hey, Sherry.

1:06.6

Hi, Doug.

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