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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

A review of Princess Cruises Majestic Princess. This ship was built for Asia and has been sailing in the region since 2017, until the pandemic. In the summer of 2021, Majestic Princess start sailing Alaska, and then was repositioned to Los Angeles. Next summer, the ship will head back to Alaska offering seven-night voyages to the last frontier.

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
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0:15.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:17.1	Hey, how's it going?
0:17.7	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:20.4	A review of
0:21.1	Princess Cruze's majestic princess today. Staff writer Richard Sims is also here with Cruise News and
0:27.0	Matt Hodgeberg from Royal Caribbean blog answers one of your listener questions. Jumping right to
0:32.3	Richard with Cruise News. Hey Richard. Hey, Doug. So the verdict is in. This isn't particularly surprising and
0:39.3	not shocking news. When you crash your cruise ship into a smaller boat, you are going to be made to
0:44.6	pay for it. As it turns out, the High Court of England has ordered MSC cruises to pay
0:49.7	Unoworld, about $2.7 million. And this is all because of that accident that happened in Venice back
0:56.5	in June of 2019. You'll remember this because the video was everywhere. You know, the MSC opera
1:03.0	was coming into the Venice port and they had some issues and they couldn't slow down and they
1:07.4	couldn't stop and they rammed into the river countess, which was
1:11.7	a Unirworld ship. So Unirold ended up, you know, the ship had some damage and they had to cancel about
1:17.1	14 sailings and it all eventually went to an investigation, which proved that the navigation
1:22.5	officers on the MSC ship were basically responsible. They and the captain wound up being fined at the time.
1:31.2	Fortunately, most of the passengers who had been on the river countess had gone ashore already,
1:35.8	so there wasn't a huge amount of damage and there was no real serious injuries involved.
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