631 Passing Time During the Shutdown + Cruise News
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
What have you been doing since the cruise industry shutdown? We catch up with listener Tommy to see what he's been doing and what are some of the first things he'll do once he gets back to sea.
Sherry Laskin has cruise news:
- One cruise line is looking to homeport in Cozumel.
- And speaking of Cozumel, a gulf coast port is about to receive a big ship.
- Here is one for you, Sherry. One cruise line is giving away a transatlantic voyage for two.
- Port Canaveral continues to gear up for the arrival of Carnival’s mega-ship Mardi Gras.
- Princess and HAL opening up a small part of Alaska
Listener Question: How does Carnival Cruise Line's shareholder credit work?
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| 0:14.3 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:21.5 | Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode |
| 0:24.8 | of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here. Going to change things up just a little bit this |
| 0:29.3 | week instead of getting a ship review because ships haven't sailed actually as of this weekend |
| 0:33.3 | in a year, 12 months. So we have that going for us. Sherry Laskin here with cruis maven.com is here with Cruise News. And our buddy Tommy Casabona from the Always Be Booked podcast is going to stop by as well. Don't forget Cruise Radio News Monday through Friday. Just pick it up where you listen to your favorite podcast. Just type in Cruise Radio News or slide your little mouse over to YouTube.com, also doing it |
| 0:55.5 | in video form. All right, Sherry Laskin with cruis maven.com. Hello, Sherry. Hi, Doug. One cruise line |
| 1:01.3 | has had enough and they said they're going to look to home port in Cozumel possibly. Yeah, so a few |
| 1:06.6 | weeks ago, we mentioned that Cozumel was putting out the welcome mat to any cruise line that |
| 1:10.9 | wanted to home port on the island. And in case people aren't really familiar, Cozumel is located |
| 1:16.7 | off the coast of Mexico on the Caribbean Sea. And now it appears there might be a taker. Royal Caribbean |
| 1:23.9 | and the mayor of Cozumel are reportedly having conversations about Royal basing a ship there. |
| 1:30.5 | And it was last week that Royal Caribbean announced that their new Odyssey of the Seas would be moving to Haifa Israel instead of Rome for its debut. |
| 1:40.0 | And for the first time, grandeur of the seas is scheduled to move to Barbados at the end of this year to do Southern Caribbean cruises. |
| 1:47.3 | So it's like they're home porting just about anywhere right now. |
| 1:51.1 | But back to Cozumel, Royal Caribbean is pretty tight-lipped and non-committal at this point. |
| 1:57.0 | And they're revealing nothing. |
| 1:58.6 | But according to Cozumel's mayor, however, he did hint that there is a |
| 2:03.4 | cruise line that might home port there as soon as this April. You know Royal Caribbean's probably saying, |
| 2:09.7 | damn it, mayor, why did you open your mouth? Yeah. People are going to, well, as soon as we see it, |
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