627 Norwegian Epic in the Mediterranean | Norwegian Cruise Line
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We get a review of a cruise aboard Norwegian Epic. This was a seven-night sailing from Rome that hit all the popular ports of call. We learn what it is like sailing Norwegian Cruise Line in Europe and how it differs, if at all, from sailing in the Caribbean.
Sherry Laskin has cruise news:
- Carnival reveals details about a space onboard the upcoming Mardi Gras
- Carnival publishes return to cruise protocols early, then pulls them off the website.
- Mexico is suggesting that some cruise lines homeport in Cozumel
- The future looks grim for the Alaska 2021 cruise season
- Viking Cruises starts construction on the new ship
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| 0:18.4 | Hey, how's it going? Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. My name is Doug Parker. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of Norwegian Epic this week. It's going to be a seven-night Mediterranean cruise out of Rome. Francine and her mother did it. And she talks all about the experience of what it was like eating on board and offboard. A of good food over there in rome sherry laskin is |
| 0:38.5 | here with cruise news and don't forget cruise radio news monday through friday just find it where you |
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| 0:50.0 | out and seeing how i uh how much i can do it without screwing it up. That's on the Cruise Radio YouTube |
| 0:55.5 | channel. Sherry Laskin is here with Cruise News. Hey, Sherry. Hello, Doug. So earlier this week was |
| 1:01.0 | National Pizza Day and Carnival took the time to detail a little more about the upcoming Mardi Gras. |
| 1:06.7 | Timing is everything in a National Pizza Day Carnival revealed more details about the new |
| 1:11.7 | Mardi Gras and the newest of six theme zones. |
| 1:14.9 | This one is called La Piazza and this Italian theme zone will have a larger pizzeria del Capitano |
| 1:21.3 | than the other ships. |
| 1:23.4 | Also located in La Piazza will be the new Piazza Panini for all sorts of panini sandwiches. |
| 1:30.7 | And there's going to be another new feature called Bar Della Rosa. |
| 1:34.2 | It's a wine and prosaco bar. |
| 1:36.5 | La Piazza will also be the home for Carnival's signature specialty restaurant Cucina del Capitano. |
| 1:43.1 | And Mardi Gras is still expected to debut in Port Canaveral on May 29th of this year. |
| 1:48.8 | I cannot wait, although I won't be down there with my drone because like the Florida Wildlife Game Commission told me, you get caught flying your drone above the ship, you're going to be trespassed from the port and can never step back on property. |
| 1:59.8 | If you try to come on property, you get caught, you're going to jail. |
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