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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A review of Celebrity Equinox for a seven-night Western Caribbean cruise. This was the last sailing the Equinox did before the shutdown. We get a review of the ship, the onboard experience, and what it was like sailing on the last voyage before the shutdown.

Richard has cruise news:

Carnival Cruise Line removed cruises longer than seven-nights off its website - what does this mean?
One cruise line is going for a more all-inclusive experience
Norwegian Cruise Line released earnings this week — what stood out?
Key West has shown the world they do not like cruise ships
The much talked out cryptocurrency cruise ship has opened bids for you to own a cabin — how is it looking so far?

Listener Question: What can you tell us about Carnival's shore excursion best price guarantee?

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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.
0:18.5	Hey, how's it going?
0:19.2	My name is Doug Parker.
0:20.1	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio, a review of celebrity equinox today. And Richard is here with Cruise News. Jumping right to Richard. Hey, man. Hey, Doug. How are you? Carnival Cruise Line has removed certain sailings from their website. What does this mean? Well, it doesn't mean a whole lot. It basically means that they're following the rules that
0:40.0	are in place with the new CDC conditional sale order. So as we've talked about in previous
0:46.4	episodes, all of the cruise lines basically have this new set of hoops they have to jump through.
0:52.4	One of them is the rule now says that for the
0:56.8	time being, the CDC is not basically allowing sailings of seven day or anything longer than seven
1:03.1	days. So, you know, carnival's really well known for their carnival journeys, salings, which are like 10
1:07.6	days, 14 days. One of the reasons that the CDC sort of wants to put a hold on this makes sense.
1:14.6	Those type of cruises tend to go to a lot more ports.
1:18.1	And right now, that's something that, you know, we need to sort of keep contained.
1:22.5	Already, we're talking about shore excursions that are going to be existing in a bubble.
1:27.3	So we also don't know that a lot of those places are going to want us to come there right now.
1:32.5	So what this really means is that Carnival is saying, okay, we're going to pull these off right now.
1:38.5	We're not going to have them available for sale.
1:40.8	We're going to look and see moving forward how this plays out. And one cruise line is going
1:45.9	for a more all-inclusive experience. This is so exciting. I have been wanting to say these words
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