559 Carnival Dream 2019 Review + Cruise News | Carnival Cruise Line
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
A 2019 review of a Western Caribbean cruise aboard Carnival Dream. This was a seven-night cruise out of New Orleans.
Rob is answering your listener questions on cruise excursions in Iceland, Vietnam, Aruba, and Cozumel.
Sherry has cruise news on:
- New rule makes it harder from cruise crew to get off the ship
- Guests get booted off Royal Caribbean ship for a dangerous act
- Royal Caribbean is getting rid of a cruise ship
- Also debuting new spa suites
- Carnival Cruise Line changes up safety video
Listener question: What is the difference between a cove balcony and a standard balcony cabin on Carnival Cruise Line?
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| 0:19.4 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:20.2 | My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here. Doing the show from Vietnam this week. So I'm on the Mekong River right now, and I'm going to try to connect with Sherry Laskin here in just a couple of moments. Also in this week's show, we have a review of Carnival Dream and Rob from cruising |
| 0:38.8 | excursions.com stops by to answer some of your cruise excursion questions all over the map this |
| 0:44.1 | week. Actually, we have a question from Ho Chi Men, one up in Iceland, Northern Europe, and the |
| 0:48.6 | Caribbean. So we'll talk with Rob here in just a few moments. And let's see what else. Cruise Radio |
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| 0:59.5 | your favorite podcast. Just type Cruise Radio News. All right, Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. |
| 1:05.8 | Hey, Sherry. Hi, Doug. So it looks like crew members who are new hires may have a harder time getting off the ship in a couple of ports. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, it does. It looks like there's this new effort to crack down on crew members who disembark in New York City and decide to theoretically go AWOL and just stay behind. |
| 1:24.1 | So the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol passed a rule to prevent cruise ship crew |
| 1:29.9 | members from disembarking in New York City and New Jersey, which would be Bayonne, until they've |
| 1:36.6 | completed at least five cruise line contracts. And this doesn't mean that crew can't go ashore in other U.S. ports. |
| 1:45.3 | So according to Crew Center website, back in 2018, crew members who were on their, only their first or second contracts with Norwegian cruise line were not permitted to take shore leave in New York City until they met certain other requirements. So this is, you know, |
| 2:03.3 | this is a big constraint for crew members that maybe have four contracts, which is, you know, |
| 2:09.5 | a good four years with the cruise line. But right now, this is the only good news, this five contract |
| 2:15.6 | rule is temporary. So we'll just have to wait and see what happens. |
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