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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Carnival Paradise was launched in 1998 as the world's first non-smoking cruise ship. Sadly, that only last a short time. Fast forward 20 years later, the ship underwent a massive overhaul adding new features and a bow-to-stern interior renovation. We get a five-night Western Caribbean review of Carnival Paradise from Tampa, Florida.

Simonne from Cruising Excursions answer some Mediterranean shore excursion questions.

Sherry has cruise news:

Celebrity Edge was officially christened
Carnival Cruise Line returns to Europe in 2020
Carnival increases beverage gratuities by three percent
Another Princess ship will have Ocean Medallion by February 2019
Royal Caribbean investing in biometric technology
Terminal 3 in Port Canaveral is officially underway

Listener Question: What is there to do in Grand Cayman aside from Stingray City?

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.3	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.
0:13.7	This is Cruise Radio.
0:16.1	Hey, how's it going?
0:16.8	My name is Doug Parker.
0:17.7	Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:19.8	Very happy to have you here.
0:21.2	A review of Carnival Paradise today. Also, Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News.
0:25.7	And Simone from cruising excursions.com answer to some of your listener questions about Mediterranean shore excursions.
0:32.3	Speaking of Carnival, they did announce the name of their XL ship. That's their 180,000 ton, like 6,000 guest ship they have coming out in 2020.
0:42.8	That's going to be based in Port Canaveral.
0:44.9	The name of that ship, throwing back to 1972, it's going to be the Mardi Gras.
0:50.3	Yeah, so looking forward to more details about that ship in the next coming months.
0:55.2	It's supposed to have some really, really cool stuff.
0:57.4	They keep teasing us, but not giving us all the information there.
1:01.5	So looking forward to that.
1:03.2	Also, keeping them coming, the Cruise Radio News podcast every day, Monday through Friday.
1:08.7	If you want to get the three things you need to know, just subscribe to Cruise Radio News. You can download it wherever you download this podcast. So I'm looking forward to having you over there as well. All right. Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. Hey, Sherry. Hi, Doug. So on Tuesday, Celebrity Edge was finally christened down in Fort Lauderdale, which They normally christen the ship first, but this time it's been doing like a lot of preview sailings before the christening.
1:11.8	Yeah. Edge was finally christened down in Fort Lauderdale, which they normally christened the ship first,
1:27.7	but this time it's been doing like a lot of preview sailings before the christening.
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