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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Take a luxury cruise to the Baltic this week aboard Silversea Cruises' Silver Spirit. This was an 11-night Baltic Cruise.

Richard has cruise news on:

The CDC extends no sail order
More Caribbean cruise cancellations
Mandatory testing for all cruise passengers and crew
New cruise ship heading for North America
Cruise ship captain smacks down an internet troll

Listener Question: When will we see a more detailed view of what the new health protocols will look like by individual companies?

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.0	If this whole thing we're going through right now has taught us anything, it is to always have travel insurance.
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0:11.4	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:15.9	This is Cruise Radio.
0:18.7	Hey, how's it going?
0:19.5	My name is Doug Parker.
0:20.4	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:23.1	Very happy to have you here.
0:25.1	Staff writer Richard Sims filling in for Sherry Laskin one last week this week for Cruise News.
0:31.3	And a review is a luxury cruise ship.
0:33.5	Actually, Silver Sea Cruises.
0:35.3	It's an 11-night Baltic cruise on the Silver Spirit, so getting that review a little bit later on as well.
0:42.4	Jumping right to Richard Sims with Cruise News. Hey, Richard.
0:45.9	Hey, Doug. How are you? So the news broke last Wednesday night that the CDC was going to be extending the no-sale order, but it wasn't all doom and gloom this time.
0:55.1	No, it was kind of better than anybody could have really hoped.
1:01.0	They did extend it, but originally they were talking about wanting to extend it through to at least the beginning of the year, maybe even February.
1:10.3	That was the talk that we heard in that
1:12.4	initial meeting between CDC and some cruise executives and the White House. Then they were going to
1:18.5	meet on Friday and sort of hammer all this out and give us a final decision on, or at least
1:25.0	semi-final, on what was going to happen. But of course, the world stepped in
1:29.3	and sort of changed that whole direction. So the meeting got postponed. We don't know when it's
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