623 Cruising Alaska During COVID + Cruise News | Alaska Marine Highway
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 14 January 2021
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
An Alaskan cruise on the Alaska Marine Highway System this past fall. How much is this like a real cruise ship? We find out.
Sherry Laskin has cruise news:
- Two more cruise lines have announced cancellations
- Popular cruise director trades sea for land
- The ruling on banning large cruise ships could be overturned
- European brands adds new ship during shutdown
- Carnival earnings report shows big loss
Listener Q:
When cruising finally does resume (whenever that might be), do you anticipate that proof of completion of COVID-19 vaccine will be required before boarding? Also, do you anticipate cruise lines requiring rapid COVID tests and temperature checks as part of the embarkation process?
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| 0:14.3 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:18.7 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:21.0 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:21.7 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:22.7 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:25.7 | A review of, well, this is interesting because Sherry Laskin, who does our news for us, |
| 0:30.9 | over the summer, she made her way back on this long trip from Sitka, Alaska to Central Florida, we'll say. And she had a chance to take the Alaska Marine Highway system. Now, this is like a cruise ship, but it's not. Okay, so it has cabins in it. You can put your car on it. There's food. There's all this stuff on there. So she kind of got to take a cruise for three nights. So we're going to talk to her about that experience. |
| 0:55.3 | And of course, she is here with cruise news. |
| 0:57.8 | So you get a double dose of Sherry this week. |
| 1:00.0 | So we'll start with the cruise news first. |
| 1:02.0 | Hi, Sherry. |
| 1:03.0 | Hi, Doug. |
| 1:03.7 | So two more cruise lines have dropped the hammer on cancellations. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah. |
| 1:07.7 | So earlier this week, Royal Caribbean and Celebrity Cruises both announced that they have yet again extended cruise operations through April 30th of this year. |
| 1:18.4 | Celebrity has extended the cruise suspension further, and they've included the May 1 transatlantic cruise on Celebrity Apex. |
| 1:26.4 | They also announced the cancellations of all European and transatlantic cruise on celebrity apex. They also announced the cancellations of all European and |
| 1:30.2 | transatlantic cruises with Celebrity Edge and Celebrity Constellation, and this one runs through |
| 1:36.1 | October of this year. And a popular cruise director is trading life at sea for life on land. |
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