653 Carnival Mardi Gras Recap + Cruise News | Carnival Cruise Line
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Ashley Kosciolek from The Points Guy, and Doug answer listener questions about Carnival Cruise Line's newest mega-ship Mardi Gras.
Richard has cruise news on:
- The latest in the Florida and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings (NCLH) lawsuit
- Disney Cruise Line returning to sailing
- Mardi Gras completes inaugural voyage
- Carnival Cruise Line changes health protocols in August
- First Cunard Line ship returns to service
Question: How do we know the protocols in each port of call we visit.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
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| 0:10.8 | Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:15.1 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.3 | Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:18.8 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Richard Sims is going to be here with news in just a couple of moments. By the way, Sherry Laskin is still with us. She hasn't gone anywhere, just catching up on a couple of things, and she'll be with us. We hope by the end of August, Sherry will be back. But in the meantime, I really do appreciate staff writer Richard Sims stepping in. Those are certainly big shoes to fill. What else we have? Ashley Cushulik from the |
| 0:41.8 | points guy coming up a little later on in the show talking about Carnivals, Mardi Gras. We kind of did a little |
| 0:47.0 | recap and overview last week. We're going to get into more detail this week about the zones on the ship. |
| 0:52.1 | What the dining situation is like what's free |
| 0:54.6 | what's not and bolt the roller coaster a lot of controversy on that with them charging $15 for one |
| 1:00.9 | lap so we'll catch up with Ashley a little later on in the show as well all right staff writer |
| 1:05.0 | richard sims hey richard hey Doug welcome back it's nice that you decided to come back and join us |
| 1:10.2 | again happy to be here so this is interesting because it seems like every time we talk, |
| 1:14.3 | it's always about the state of Florida and some lawsuit. At first, it was the CDC. |
| 1:18.6 | But then a couple of weeks ago, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings in the state of Florida, |
| 1:23.0 | they butted heads. It looks like we have an outcome, at least temporarily. |
| 1:27.8 | Yeah, you know, the sort of world-weary tone that you have as you set this up is, I think, |
| 1:34.0 | sort of how all of us feel about this. We're just like Florida, knock it off. |
| 1:38.6 | Just cruise ships are sailing, let them go, just stop with all this. |
| 1:43.4 | So this time, Norwegian, Norwegian is very determined that |
| 1:47.6 | they are going to sail with 100% of people on board vaccinated. And of course, you know, that's, |
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