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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This week Richard Simms gets us caught up on this week's cruise news.

Another Carnival Cruise Line ship has issues
John Heald gets dumps a bunch of cruise line news
Celebrity Cruises' changes its vaccination policy
Norwegian Cruise Line resumes sailing from the Gulf Coast
Virgin Voyages donates 100s of cabins on Scarlet Lady
NCL cancels sailings from South Africa

Listener Question:

1. We have a Carnival cruise booked out of Port Canaveral for late December. We're trying to arrange testing before we go, but are thinking about making a reservation for pier-side testing as a backup. Is there any reason we shouldn't do this?

2. I heard you can stay overnight on Ocean Cay. Is that true?

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
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0:10.4	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:14.9	This is Cruise Radio.
0:17.3	Hey, how's it going?
0:17.9	My name is Doug Parker.
0:18.8	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. If you're listening from the United States, I hope you had a very good Thanksgiving. Got to spend it up in Asheville, North Carolina with the sister. And it was really, well, it was cold up there, but it was very nice.
0:41.8	And I hope you had the same if you're not in the United States listening outside.
0:44.7	I hope you had a good Thursday last week.
0:49.1	So on this week's show, staff writer Richard Sims is dropping in for this week's cruise news.
0:55.4	Not going to have a review this week because we covered a lot of news from A to Z and some of your listener questions. So we'll jump to Richard right now. Hey, buddy. Hey, Doug. So these Carnival Vista
1:01.5	class ships have a bit of a problem. Yeah, yeah, it started with as seems natural Carnival Vista.
1:09.9	They had quite a few problems you'll remember a few years
1:11.8	ago. In fact, back in 2019, they had such a problem that they basically had to take the ship out
1:19.6	of service for a couple weeks. And because there had been that crane accident at the dry dock in
1:25.5	Grand Cayman, they weren't able to go there, so they had, you know,
1:28.7	they took the ship out to this gigantic floating dry dock and it was a whole process. This time
1:33.2	the problem isn't quite as bad and it isn't with Carnival Vista. It's with Carnival Horizon.
1:38.0	The ship is having one of those problems that impacts their ability to kind of get up to full speed. So the current
1:46.8	sailing had to cancel two ports. And then on top of that, Carnival announced that they would have
1:52.5	to cancel the next two sailings, the first two sailings of December, while they dealt with this
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