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632 Weekly Cruise News Update

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Doug Parker

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 18 March 2021

ā±ļø 16 minutes

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Summary

This week we catch up with Sherry Laskin with a busy week of cruise news.Ā 

Sherry has news on:

  • The first major cruise line sailing from the United States will now require a vaccinationĀ 
  • More uncertainty for the already struggling Alaska cruise seasonĀ 
  • Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings drops the ax on June 2021 sailingsĀ 
  • A scary incident aboard a MSC cruise line ship.Ā 
  • Two U.S. river cruise lines are back to sailing againĀ 
  • Royal Caribbean deploys a ship in Los Angelos in 2022Ā 

Listener Question #1: What's the difference between a passport card and a regular passport? We are traveling to the Bahamas next summer. -LeeannĀ 

Listener Question #2: How kid-friendly of a cruise line is Cunard? We are looking for a family reunion cruise with 30 people, half of them are under 35.Ā  - Dave

Thoughts or questions?Ā [email protected]Ā 

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0:14.2

Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

0:18.6

This is Cruise Radio.

0:20.4

Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Happy to have you here. Doing it from the road this week. Yeah, we're here in Vegas right now where we've been hiking for the past five days. Went over to Valley of Fire State Park. That was kind of cool. Some really cool sites there. Also, the Hoover Dam and hiked around Lake Meadad and hoping to hit Grand Canyon and Sedona on the way back. So we'll see how that takes us. Had a blizzard on the way out here in Flagstaff, Arizona out of all places. And it wasn't expecting. It was like a freak storm. So that was fun to spend the night in the Flying Jays truck stop. But yeah, I'm sure you don't want to

0:55.0

hear anything about that. So we'll get right to Sherry with Cruise News. Hi, Sherry. Hi, Doug.

0:59.7

So Royal Caribbean had some news yesterday. That's right. After a 10-year absence navigator of the seas

1:05.9

will move to Los Angeles in June of 2022. The ship will then sail three, four, and five night itineraries to Catalina

1:14.1

Island and then Ensenada and Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. During the winter, several seven-night

1:21.0

holiday sailings will include an overnight in Cabo San Lucas and bookings open for sale beginning

1:27.1

Monday, March 29th.

1:28.8

Have you ever done Catalina? I have not. I've been to Ensenada in Cabo but not Catalina.

1:34.0

Yeah, it looks cool. That's the island that's like right off the coast, right off of, you can

1:38.6

see it from L.A., right? Yeah, it used to be a really, really popular spot back in the 40s and 50s for all the Hollywood jet setters.

1:48.0

They would just go to Catalina Island for the weekend.

1:50.6

And the first major cruise line sailing from the U.S. will now require a vaccine.

1:56.0

Yeah, Virgin Voyages has announced it will require all passengers and crew to have had their vaccination

2:01.7

in order to cruise on any of their U.S. departures.

2:05.4

Unfortunately, Virgin Voyages has had to cancel the debut of its first ship, Scarlet Lady,

2:10.8

from Miami, and that's until July 1, and like all other major cruise lines with U.S.

2:16.3

departures, Virgin Voyages is also waiting for CDC guidance and compliance until cruising can begin again.

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