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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

A back-to-back review of Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas. This was a three and four-night cruise that went to Nassau, Bahamas, and Perfect Day at CocoCay. We learn about the recent Mariner refurbishments and what it's like sailing two cruises in a row.

Sherry has cruise news:

Australia extending their cruise ship ban
Royal Caribbean backtracks on no buffets.
Royal Caribbean gave us a financial update
We start starting to see where the first cruise ships may sail from
Virgin Voyages has delayed their inaugural cruise - again

Listener Q:

Our Alaska cruise was canceled and now looking at next July. The prices 20% higher for the same time next year. Should we book now and monitor the prices or wait until they figure out when the boats will sail again before booking? - Jessica

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
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0:16.3	This is Cruise Radio.
0:18.9	Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker.
0:20.5	Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio, a review of Royal Caribbean's Mariner of the Seas this week. Kat sailed back in February. She did a back-to-back cruise on the ship, so we're going to hear all about it. And Sherry Laskin from CruiseMaven.com is on deck with Cruise News. And don't forget about cruise radio news, daily quick kits of the news,
0:39.8	seven days a week right now. You can find it where you consume your favorite podcast. It runs just
0:44.7	opposite of here by searching cruise radio news. All right. Hi, Sherry. Hi, Doug. So Australia has
0:51.1	extended their cruise ship ban. They have.
0:54.3	So Australia's border force extended its ban on cruise ship arrivals now through September 17th.
1:00.8	The ban started on March 27th and was originally supposed to end on June 17th.
1:08.0	The impacted ports include Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Cairns, Port Adelaide, Darwin,
1:14.6	Fremantle, and Hobart. Any ship with more than 100 passengers that has visited a foreign port
1:21.0	is not allowed to operate in Australia or in its territorial waters. The original ban that was implemented in March came as a result of Princess Cruises Ruby Princess
1:32.3	after it disembarked COVID-infected passengers into the city.
1:37.3	Following that event, there's now a criminal investigation to see if Princess Cruises
1:42.3	withheld safety guidelines when informing Australian
1:46.2	authorities prior to docking, also under scrutiny, is whether or not Ruby Princess could have
1:52.2	violated Australia's biosecurity laws. So Carnival, Celebrity Hound America, Princess, and Royal
1:59.5	Caribbean all offer either year-round
2:01.8	or seasonal cruises from Australia.
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