697 Holland America 2022 Koningsdam Review + Cruise News

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A review of Holland America Line's 2016 built ms Koningsdam from San Diego, California. This was a California Coastal cruise with a stop in Ensenada, Mexico.

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0:00.0	I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance.
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0:08.8	Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:13.1	This is Cruise Radio.
0:15.2	Hey, how's it going?
0:15.8	My name is Doug Parker.
0:16.7	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:19.5	A review of Holland America's MS. Koningsdam on this week's show, which is actually the sister ship to the one we're on right now in Norway, which is the MS. Rotterdam. It's getting christened next week in Rotterdam, so that'll be a really cool event that we're here for. As always, we're on the ship's Wi-Fi signal, so not sure if it's
0:38.4	going to hold up. So we're going to jump right to Richard right now while we still have them
0:41.9	clean on the line. Richard, can you hear me okay? I'm here. So big news week this week,
0:47.2	Carnival Corporation could be offloading a cruise line. Yeah, it sounds like this is probably
0:53.9	going to go through. So it looks like CNBC first
0:58.1	reported this. And, you know, the people at CNBC are pretty on the nose. When they report
1:03.0	these things, they tend to come true. And they reported that Carnival Corporation is in negotiations
1:08.8	with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund to sell off seaborne. So seaborne consists of
1:15.5	five ships right now, plus they have two others that are currently under construction. One of them
1:20.7	was actually supposed to start sailing last year, but it got delayed because of, you know, COVID and all the,
1:27.1	and the shutdown and everything.
1:28.8	But that ship is done and supposed to start sailing in, I believe, July, and there's
1:34.1	another ship coming behind it the year after.
1:36.5	It's assumed that these ships would probably be part of any deal that is made.
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