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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

After six months in service, we get a review of Virgin Voyages' newly launched Scarlet Lady. This was a five-night cruise from PortMiami to Costa Maya, Mexico, and Bimini Island.

Richard has cruise news on:

Multiple cruise lines drop mask mandates
The world's largest cruise ship makes it to America
Canada ports prepare for a 2022 cruise season
Carnival Sensation reportedly sold for scrap
Carnival Celebration gets a new atrium
111 cruise lines participate in the new CDC agency cruise rules

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
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0:14.9	This is Cruise Radio.
0:17.6	Hey, how's it going?
0:18.4	My name is Doug Parker.
0:19.3	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of
0:21.2	Cruise Radio, a review of Virgin Voyages Scarlet Lady on this week's show. Richard Sims is here
0:27.7	with Cruise News. A quick little programming note here. So John emailed me and said that these shows
0:33.6	haven't been appearing on the Google Play or Google Podcast store or whatever they have over there at Google.
0:39.2	I'm an Apple guy myself.
0:40.4	But anyway, after 11 years of being in the Google Play Store, I had to re-verify my feed for some odd reason.
0:46.9	So that email wasn't spam.
0:49.2	So now I wait for the robots to re-index my RSS feed to get us back on the Google Play Store and the
0:55.8	Google Podcast app and all of that stuff. So fun times. All right, staff writer Richard Simpson is
1:00.3	here with Cruise News. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug. So a whole lot of cruise lines dropped mask mandates
1:05.9	late Friday night. Yeah, pretty much everybody dropped it. I think we kind of assumed this would be coming when
1:12.7	the CDC lowered basically the threat level from four to three, so it went from very high to high.
1:18.6	And then they also introduced, you know, their new program, which we're going to talk a little bit
1:22.3	later. So with all of these things combined, they basically have decided that they're dropping it,
1:28.2	but they're sort of trying to have their cake and eat it too, because on the one hand,
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