681 Freedom of the Seas Review + Cruise News | Royal Caribbean

Cruise Radio

Doug Parker

Ship, Cruises, River, Reviews, Cruiselines, Carnivalcruiseline, Line, Vacation, Travel, Deals, Lines, Msccruises, Vacations, Society & Culture, Family, Norwegian, Royal, Holland, Places & Travel, Cruise, Information, Carnival, Princess, Leisure, Expeditions, Cruising, Ships, Celebrity, Windstar, Virginvoyages, Caribbean

4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A review of Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas. Four-night cruise from Port Miami to Nassau, Bahamas, and Royal Caribbean's private island Perfect Day at CocoCay.

Richard has cruise news on:

Cruise ship halts a rocket launch
Carnival pulls a ship from Australia
Disney changes its COVID policies for testing
Queen Mary could reopen to the public this year
Royal Caribbean returns to Labadee
A couple gets caught with over 500 prohibited items

Listener Q: What are some first-time cruise tips for picking a sailing during a pandemic?

Thoughts or questions? [email protected]

Want daily cruise news? Subscribe to the Cruise Radio News podcast feed.

Get in-depth cruise news and industry insight at www.cruiseradio.net.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.3	Now more than ever, you should consider trip insurance for any kind of trip you take, not just cruises.
0:07.7	Get a free quote at tripinsurance.com.
0:10.4	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:14.9	This is Cruise Radio.
0:17.5	Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker.
0:19.1	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of
0:21.2	Cruise Radio. A review of Royal Caribbean's Freedom of the Seas today. And staff writer Richard
0:26.7	Sims is here with Cruise News, so we'll jump right to him. Hey, Richard.
0:30.5	Hey, Doug. So this story is rather peculiar. A cruise ship halted a rocket launch down in central Florida.
0:38.9	I love this story because, you know, I have long said that nothing comes between a cruise ship passenger and their drink package.
0:45.5	And it turns out that that includes the launch of a rocket.
0:48.4	So the rocket was counting down.
0:50.7	It was SpaceX.
0:51.5	And they were going to put a satellite up in orbit, and they were in mid-countdown.
0:56.0	They got down to 33 seconds, and all of a sudden, the countdown was interrupted because Harmony of
1:01.2	the Seas had wandered into the no-go zone. We don't know exactly yet how that happened, because, you know,
1:07.4	there's people who are supposed to coordinate all that and make sure exactly that thing doesn't happen.
1:12.1	So the main concern is that, you know, if the ship is, if the rocket is taking off and something falls off of it or something goes wrong, you don't want it to fall on, you know, something like, oh, say, a giant ship that happens to have sailed into the wrong area.
1:25.3	So something definitely went wrong here. There was a lack of communication somewhere. I kind of have to think someone is going to get fired for this, or at the very least, they'll get a fine. Yeah, well, the fine is $5,000 for, I guess, disobeying a notice to mariners from the Coast Guard. So I'm curious to see if Royal will get their hand slapped or get the $5,000
1:44.3	bill. Honestly, it feels like they're going to spend more than $5,000 doing an investigation.
1:49.7	They might as well just write a check for $5,000 and we can all move on with our lives.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Doug Parker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Doug Parker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.