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Here we go. Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio.

Hey, I was going. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

Episode number 700.

Yeah, we made it.

On this show, a review of Princess Cruze's brand new Discovery Princess,

currently sailing up in Southeast Alaska this summer.

It debuted a couple of months ago down in L.A.

And by now, I'm sure you've heard that the federal government has dropped the negative COVID test reentry requirement for coming back into the United States.

That's good for everyone taking a cruise over the U.S. borders this year.

And with that news, came a lot of questions.

By the way, you're always free to email your questions to Doug at cruiserio.net. A few of the questions we received were about travel insurance and quarantines and all of that. So I brought on Dan Skokin. He is the president of tripinsurance.com and he joins us on the line to help field some of these questions. Hi, Dan. Hey, Doug. Thank you for having me on. Yeah, this is a lot of these

questions very relevant for what we're going through right now. And the first one, even though

the U.S. just lifted its reentry testing requirement, how important is it to still get travel insurance?

Well, personally, I think it makes it a lot easier that the majority of countries have lifted the

negative COVID test requirements to get in, including the U.S., you know, getting back into the U.S.

and potentially testing positive for COVID, but not having a whole lot of symptoms, created

a lot of expense for clients. Fortunately, travel insurance covers the expense if you get stuck

and you're not hospitalized and you've got to remain. And it covered hotel and extra food

in the travel delay that was involved. But now that these requirements have been lifted,

the thing to think about is that they could come back at any time if another variant breaks out.

And we all know that another variant will come.

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