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706 Regal Princess 2022 Review + Cruise News | Princes Cruises

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A seven-night review of Princess Cruises' Regal Princess in the Med. 

Richard Simms has cruise news

  • More developments on the rock slide impacting an Alaska cruise port 
  • Another U.S. cruise line drops pre-cruise COVID-19 testing before embarkation 
  • Carnival is re-opening another dining venue after being shutdown over the summer 
  • One cruise line is celebrating a year back to service with some cool facts 
  • Virgin Voyages is coming to a TV near you

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0:00.0

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0:02.0

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0:10.5

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0:14.9

This is Cruise Radio.

0:16.8

Hey, how's it going?

0:17.4

My name is Doug Parker.

0:18.4

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.

0:21.8

A review of Princess Cruises, Regal Princess, this week. Also, staff writer Richard Sims is here to get us caught up on this week's cruise news.

0:30.4

As always, we have Cruise Radio News. The three things you need to know to start your day every Monday through Friday.

0:36.9

You can find that just

0:37.9

opposite of this channel or on the Cruise Radio YouTube channel. All right, staff writer Richard

0:43.2

Sims on deck. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug. So we reported last week on that rock slide and Skagway,

0:49.9

and there's more to the story now. Yeah, this is actually turning into a very interesting and

0:54.9

potentially scary story. Last month, there was a rock slide, which did some damage to the

1:01.9

White Pass and Yukon Route Railway dock in Skagway. That's a mouthful. But it could have been

1:08.5

a lot worse. There were no ship stocked at the time and no passengers in the area, but engineers have looked at it and said the next time, and they're pretty sure there will be a next time, it could be a lot worse.

1:20.0

In fact, this is a direct quote from their engineering report.

1:24.2

They said, quote, the consequences of such failure will be catastrophic in nature

1:29.2

and with significant risks to life and property, unquote. So when you hear something like that,

1:35.2

you know, catastrophic and, you know, life and death, that's not good. So they are basically

1:41.2

not using the forward birth right now. And that means that some lines have had to see closures, especially Princess.

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