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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

This week we get a review of a four-night sailing on Royal Caribbean's Brilliance of the Seas. This was a quick sailing to Cozumel over Super Bowl weekend. We also learn the importance of having travel insurance.

Sherry has cruise news on:

Carnival's new destination in the Bahamas
Princess Cruises putting a waterpark on one of their ships
More Virgin Voyages news
A Celebrity cruise ship just got a major makeover
Listener question comparing Caribbean itineraries and ships.

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
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0:16.9	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:21.5	This is Cruise Radio.
0:23.7	Hey, how's it going?
0:24.4	My name is Doug Parker.
0:25.2	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:28.2	Very happy to have you here.
0:29.5	A review of Royal Caribbean's brilliance of the seas this week out of Tampa, Florida.
0:34.6	Sherry is here with Cruise News.
0:36.5	A couple of things before Sherry, Cruise Radio
0:38.7	Daily News Briefs, quick hits of the news there. If you want to find that, just type in
0:43.3	Cruise Radio News, wherever we listen to your favorite podcast. And the Cruise Radio YouTube channel
0:49.1	have a deck-by-deck walkthrough of Virgin Voyages's upcoming Scarlet Lady. That was recently uploaded as well. All right. Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. Hi, Sherry. Hi, Doug. So in 2017, Carnival made the announcement that they're going to build this private destination. And all we knew was it was going to be on Grand Bahama Island, which is the same place at Freeport is. We now know a little bit more information.
1:16.9	We know a little bit more, and John Heald, Carnival's brand ambassador, did reveal a little bit,
1:19.5	and he's calling it Half Moon Key Plus.
1:22.9	So it sounds like it's going to be pretty nice.
1:26.3	Yeah, like you mentioned, it's going to be in the Bahamas, of course,
1:31.3	about 20 miles to the east of Freeport on Grand Bahama Island.
1:35.5	And he did say that the completion date is still unknown.
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