526 Grand Classica Review 2019 + Cruise News | Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line isn't your typical cruise line. They have two cruise ships based in Palm Beach, Florida and do two-night cruises to Freeport, Bahamas. One of their ships is an old Carnival Cruise Line ship (Carnival Celebration) and the other is an old Costa Cruises ship (neoClassica). Today's review is of the Grand Classica.
We learn how is compares to mass market cruise ship, are the procedures the same, and what the experience was like.
Action News Meteorologist Greg Dee answers a question about the high winds that caused a cruise ship delay in New York City.
Sherry has cruise news on:
- Norwegian Cruise Line ship was cut short due to high winds
- The port of Nassau will get a new cruise pier
- One cruise line made gratuities mandatory and then reversed it
- Navigator of the Seas is out of dry dock and ready to sail from Port Miami
- Carnival Cruise Line adds new dessert menu
Listener question on tipping luggage handlers at the pier.
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| 0:21.7 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:23.8 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:24.4 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:25.4 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:28.5 | A review of Grand Classica today, so you're probably wondering what is Grand Classica. |
| 0:33.1 | Well, it's that two-night cruise line down in Palm Beach, Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line is the name of it. |
| 0:39.4 | And they have two ships. |
| 0:40.6 | One of them is an old Carnival Cruise Line ship, and one of them is an old Costa ship. |
| 0:45.6 | And David just got back from the Costa ship. |
| 0:48.3 | So he'll be joining us here in just a couple of moments. |
| 0:50.8 | Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News as well. |
| 0:53.5 | And action news meteorologist |
| 0:55.0 | Greg D stops by to answer some questions about the windstorm that was in the Northeast |
| 0:59.5 | that impacted a Norwegian cruise lineship. So a big show today. Don't forget about Cruise Radio |
| 1:04.1 | News, our daily quick hits of the news. You can find it where you listen to your favorite |
| 1:07.7 | podcast. Just check out Cruise Radio News. And one quick thing here before we get to Sherry, someone sent me a DM on Instagram. And so they've been listening to the show for the past seven years. And they did not realize we had a website. So cruiseradio.comet is the website. You'll find Cruise News there, Ship reviews, destination reviews, excursion reviews, all that good stuff. Show notes from the weekly show. Let's see what else. Some videos there from our Cruise Radio YouTube channel. |
| 1:31.9 | It's all right there at CruiseRadio.com. All right, Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. |
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