624 Looking at Ports When Cruising Resumes + Cruise News
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2021
⏱️ 24 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Over the past few weeks, we've spent quite a bit of time talking about the health and safety protocols that are going to be put in place when sailing resumes. But one thing we haven't really discussed is what the port situation will be like and how it will impact cruising. Joining me to dive into this a little deeper is staff writer Richard Simms.
Sherry Laskin has cruise news:
- Royal Caribbean sells a cruise brand
- Norwegian Cruise Line extends its cancellations
- Two former Carnival Cruise Line ships are getting scrapped
- COVID test requirement are coming for all people entering the United States
- A bucket list cruise for 2023
Listener Question: I currently have a Disney Cruise scheduled for Aug 28th and only have paid the deposit. Do you think I should pay the balance or wait till closer to the due date in April?
--
Thoughts or questions? doug@cruiseradio.net
Want daily cruise news? Subscribe to the Cruise Radio News podcast feed.
Get in-depth cruise news and industry insight at www.cruiseradio.net.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | In these winter months, consider Tripinsurance.com to cover your next cruise investment. |
| 0:04.9 | Buy direct from the leading insurers and save up the 40% or more on comparable plans from the other sites. |
| 0:10.4 | Get a quote today and save from Tripinsurance.com. |
| 0:18.4 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:22.7 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:26.2 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:26.8 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:27.8 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. |
| 0:30.6 | We're going to talk about how cruising is going to change as we move forward and ramp |
| 0:35.7 | back up on today's show. More private islands in the works, |
| 0:40.1 | shorter cruises, things of the sort. Staff writer Richard Sims will be here to cover that. Also, |
| 0:44.9 | as always, Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. So you know how we do our daily Cruise Radio |
| 0:49.8 | news briefs. Of course, that's found opposite of this feed at Cruise Radio News. |
| 1:11.7 | Been tinkering around with doing video briefs for about the past month and a half or so. If you want to see them get caught up daily in the form of video or just see if I have a face for radio, you can do that on Twitter, our Facebook page, or our Cruise radio YouTube channel. It's all right there for you. |
| 1:14.6 | All right. Let's jump to cruise news with Sherry Laskin. Hey, Sherry. |
| 1:19.5 | Hey, Doug. Royal Caribbean has sold one of their cruise brands. Yeah, so earlier this week, |
| 1:26.0 | Royal Caribbean Group announced its intention to sell Azamara. The three-ship boutique cruise line was sold for a cool $201 million in cash, and the buyer is a private equity firm called Sycamore Partners. |
| 1:34.9 | Royal Caribbean plans to transfer the cruise line to its new owner this March. |
| 1:39.5 | Royal Caribbean Group CEO Richard Fain said, and here's why they did it, by selling Azamara, |
| 1:45.2 | the company will have more resources to invest in its three remaining cruise lines, which are, |
| 1:49.8 | of course, Royal Caribbean, Celebrity Cruises, and Silver Sea. |
| 1:53.0 | $200 million for three cruise ships and a cruise line. That's a fire sale. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Doug Parker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Doug Parker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.