620 7 New Ships Debuting in 2020 + Cruise News
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
We talk about seven of the hottest ships debuting in 2020.Â
Sherry has cruise news:Â
- Carnival Cruise Line's Mardi Gras was officially deliveredÂ
- Royal Caribbean sells two cruise shipsÂ
- Royal Caribbean gives $40 million in loans to travel agentsÂ
- The bitcoin cruise ship is headed to the scrapyardÂ
- Costa Cruises debuts a new cruise shipÂ
Listener Question: Should we park at the port or an offsite lot?Â
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:02.3 | 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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| 0:11.8 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:17.0 | Cruise Radio. |
| 0:18.2 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:18.9 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:19.8 | Thank you for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:22.6 | A review? Actually, nope, not a review this week. We're going to talk about seven ships that are going to |
| 0:27.3 | debut in 2021. And Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. Hello, Sherry. Hi, Doug. It finally |
| 0:34.2 | happened. Carnival Cruise Line took delivery of their very first mega ship. |
| 0:39.7 | Yep, so Carnival Cruise Line has officially and finally taken delivery of the new Mardi Gras at the shipyard over in Finland. |
| 0:47.6 | Many of the concepts introduced on board, we've talked about these before, but I'll sort of sum it up. |
| 0:52.9 | And they're brand new for Carnival. |
| 0:54.8 | And aside from this being the first LNG-powered cruise ship to sail from North America, |
| 1:00.6 | there will be a lot of first aboard Mardi Gras, and that includes a newly designed atrium, |
| 1:07.1 | several restaurants that haven't been on a carnival ship before, and of course, Bolt, that we've talked about, the first roller coaster on a cruise ship. |
| 1:15.6 | Marty Graub will feature the line's first partnership with chef Emerald Lagasse and a new restaurant by Shaquille O'Neill, Master's Chef Rudy Sodeman that we remember from Holland America and Guy Fiatty will also |
| 1:29.1 | have their signature eateries on board. The response to Mardi Gras has been so successful that work |
| 1:35.9 | has already begun on Mardi Gras' sister ship carnival celebration with a planned completion |
| 1:42.3 | in 2022. |
| 1:45.1 | This next story is really going to hit home for you because I know you're really partial to |
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