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533 Disney Magic Review + John Heald | Disney Cruise Line

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

We get a review of Disney Magic. One of Disney Cruise Line's older cruise ships. This was a repositioning cruise from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida. 

Carnival Cruise Line Brand Ambassador John Heald answers some questions.  

Dan Skilken from TripInsurance.com talks to us about WOW airline that just went out of business and how that impacts travelers without travel insurance. Also, the recent Oasis of the Seas incident and how the guests who had air and hotel were covered. 

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0:16.6

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0:20.9

This is Cruise Radio.

0:23.4

Hey, how's it going? My name's Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

0:27.4

A review of Disney Magic this week, got a couple of requests for this one.

0:31.0

It went from San Juan to Miami. Brad will be here in just a couple of seconds to chat all about that.

0:35.6

Last week, I was down in Miami for the annual C-Trade Conference, a cruise industry conference,

0:40.7

had a chance to get a couple of minutes with Carnival's brand ambassador, John Heald.

0:45.0

So we'll check in with John in just a couple of moments as well.

0:47.8

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0:51.7

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0:54.7

news where you listen to your favorite podcast all right brad just got back from a five-night

0:59.3

repositioning cruise aboard disney magic from san juan puerto rico to miami and he joins us on the line

1:05.1

hey brad hey dog how you doing good man so i'll take a step back as always what made you want to take

1:09.9

this five-night repo cruise?

1:11.7

Well, one of the main things is we've always wanted to kind of dab our feet into, our toes into the Southern Caribbean.

1:19.8

They're a little bit trickier for us to take, and so we live near Galveston, so nothing from Galveston goes down that far.

1:27.2

So this particular repositioning cruise took us to a couple of southern Caribbean islands and ports. So we thought, well, let's give it a try. So you booked it and flew down the San Juan. So you're out west a little bit. You make it down the San Juan. Did you do a pre-crues night? Yeah, you had to. Boy, it was a long flight from here because we had to go all the way to Orlando and then down. And so it ended up being a pretty long trip. But we spent the night in Old San Juan. It was called the Casablanca Hotel. How was it? If you're looking for really nice amenities in a pretty hotel with a lot of flash, then don't bother.

2:02.9

This is, when I say old San Juan, yeah, it's old.

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