517 Carnival Valor Review 2018 + Cruise News | Carnival Cruise Line
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2018
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
A review of Carnival Valor. Valor is a Conquest-class ship from Carnival Cruise Line and currently (2018) sails from Galveston, TX. In 2019, she will reposition to New Orleans. This review covers a four-night cruise to Cozumel. We get a detailed review of the ship, dining, staterooms, and Nachi Cocom.
We answer your shore excursion questions.
Sherry Laskin has cruise news:
- A Royal Caribbean ship rescued two men by pure luck
- Another new cruise ship has arrived in South Florida
- An injured cruiser has won over $400,000 from one cruise line
- A new tax will impact cruisers heading to Amsterdam in 2019
- New cruise ships for 2019
Listener Question: Which cruise line is better - Princess Cruises or Celebrity Cruises?
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
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| 0:08.8 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:13.5 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:15.7 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:16.4 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:17.2 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio, a review of Carnival Valor this week. Also, Simone from cruising excursions, stops by to answer some of your listener questions. And as always, Sherry is here with Cruise News. I hope you had a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday. So we're going to jump right to Sherry. First things first with Cruise News. Hey, Sherry. Hey, Doug. So it was a miracle for two fishermen last week, huh? |
| 0:38.4 | It really was. And this happened in the Caribbean Sea. |
| 0:42.3 | Two men had been drifting for 20 days without, basically without food and very little water. |
| 0:50.3 | There happened to be, I guess people might have heard about this bad weather that's been all over the Caribbean and the Gulf, but bad weather forced the empress of the States Royal Caribbean ship to alter its course from Cuba instead go to Ocho Rios. |
| 1:05.8 | But it was at night, and someone on the bridge happened to spot a flashing distress light out in the distance. |
| 1:12.7 | So after doing all the proper security checks and learning that no one from Jamaica or Grand |
| 1:18.0 | Cayman could even send a rescue boat in that water, the cruise ship's captain proceeded towards |
| 1:23.6 | the stranded fishing boat. And within about three hours, the two fishermen from Costa Rica |
| 1:29.0 | were brought on board. They received medical attention and water and food. But it's just a |
| 1:34.1 | stroke of luck for these men that, you know, that they made it. They had been catching some |
| 1:39.5 | fish to live on, but like I said, they were running out of fresh water. Chief meteorologist |
| 1:44.1 | James Van Fleet over there with Royal Caribbean. I mean, he made the call |
| 1:47.1 | to divert this ship because of the weather. And you know what? It's a blessing that he made |
| 1:52.7 | that call because those guys wouldn't be alive right now if he didn't make that call. |
| 1:56.0 | Absolutely not. I mean, they had no signals or anything. So it just said he spotted them because they changed |
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