587 Freedom of the Seas 2020 Review + Cruise News | Royal Caribbean
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
A review of a seven-night cruise on Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas from San Juan, Puerto Rico. This cruise went down to the Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao.
Sherry has cruise news on:
- Carnival sends 10,000 crew members home
- Disney Cruise Line extends its cancellation
- How Norwegian Cruise Line is weathering the financial storm
- The new Cruise Terminal 3 in Port Canaveral is close to opening
- Ship designers are pivoting when it comes to future cruise concepts
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| 0:17.1 | Cruise Radio. Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:22.5 | Very happy to have you here, my friend. |
| 0:24.6 | If this is your first time listening, welcome in. |
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| 0:30.9 | So Sherry Laskin here this week with Cruise News, as always. |
| 0:34.5 | Also a review of Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the of the seas what else do we have going on |
| 0:39.9 | around here a lot some more cruise line cancellations that can be found at cruise radio dot net updating that |
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| 1:02.0 | All right, Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. Hey, Sherry. Hi, Doug. |
| 1:05.4 | 10,000 more Carnival Cruise Line crew members will soon be heading home. Yeah, so Carnival Cruise Line announced they're in the |
| 1:12.0 | process to deploy more than half their fleet to work together in an effort to bring their crew members |
| 1:17.9 | back to their home countries. Current travel restrictions, as we all know, have made it extremely |
| 1:23.6 | difficult for crew to return home. So the process began as the ships departed from |
| 1:28.9 | wherever they were staying and they're all heading to a staging area in the Bahamas. So when all |
| 1:34.4 | these ships get clustered together, lifeboats will be used to transfer crew to the ship that is |
| 1:39.9 | bound for their home country. And Carnival, like you said, will repatriate over 10,000 healthy |
| 1:45.7 | crew members to their homes in Asia, Africa, Europe, India, and Latin America. So far, Carnival Spirit |
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