709 Celebrity Eclipse Review 2022 + Cruise News | Celebrity Cruises
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Seven-night cruise on Celebrity Eclipse to Southeast Alaska sailing from Vancouver, British Columbia.
Richard has cruise news:
1. More cruise lines relax or drop vaccination mandates and pre-cruise testing
2. This past Monday, Carnival Cruise Line had a recording booking day for the first time since 2019
3. Virgin Voyages is getting a surge of a half billion dollars in fresh capital
4. An extra day for guests sailing Carnival Splendor in Australia in October
5. The rockslide in Skagway, Alaska, has closed one pier for the rest of the 2022 season
6. Princess Cruises partners with a NASCAR race team
Listener Question: Should I buy the Cloud 9 Thermal Suite on Carnival in advance for $199, or will it be cheaper once onboard? We are on a week-long cruise on Carnival Panorama in October.
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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. |
| 0:18.3 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio, a review of celebrity eclipse this week. |
| 0:24.7 | Also, staff writer Richard Sims on deck with Cruise News. Cruise News today, the top three stories you need to know every day of the week. |
| 0:33.4 | Well, I take that back Monday through Friday, found just opposite of this channel at Cruise News |
| 0:39.1 | today or on the Cruise Radio YouTube channel. Staff writer Richard Sims is here with Cruise News. Hey, |
| 0:45.7 | Richard. Hey, Doug. So at the risk of repeating ourselves, it looks like things have changed yet |
| 0:51.4 | again. So again, give us a summary of what's going on out there. |
| 0:56.0 | Well, remember how tired we got of reporting like all the various cruise line cancellations |
| 1:01.4 | during COVID? Well, it's almost getting to that point where the health and safety protocols are |
| 1:06.4 | concerned. But as we predicted during last week's show, Carnival Cruise Line has finally joined the fray and announced the loosening of their own vaccination and testing protocols. |
| 1:16.2 | Obviously, this is a biggie because, you know, Carnival is such a huge player in the game and there were so many people with their eyes on them waiting for them to make this change. |
| 1:24.9 | Where Carnival is concerned, the basics are that vaccinated guests |
| 1:28.8 | will need to continue to provide proof of their vaccination status, but they won't have to do |
| 1:35.7 | pre-cruising unless, and of course there's always this exception, unless they're going to Canada, |
| 1:41.6 | Bermuda, Greece, one of the various places that have testing requirements |
| 1:46.4 | as, you know, before they'll let people in. So again, vaccinated guests still have to prove that |
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