743 Anthem of the Seas Review + Cruise News | Royal Caribbean
Cruise Radio
Doug Parker
4.8 • 609 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Adam, his three-year-old daughter, and his father-in-law took a cruise aboard Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas out of Bayonne, New Jersey, this past December. The cruise visited Florida and the Bahamas. He goes over why Anthem is the perfect ship for chilly winter weather, what their experience was with the entertainment, how his daughter liked the kids' club, and what they did during their day at Royal Caribbean's private island Perfect Day at CocoCay.
Richard has cruise news:
- Royal Caribbean gets rid of the Sky Pad feature
- Norwegian Cruise Line reverts back to e-muster drill
- Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings CEO Frank Del Rio steps down
- Carnival Corporation sells Seabourn ship
- Costa Venezia transferred to Carnival Cruise Line, and work beings
- Celebrity Ascent opens two preview sailings for booking before the christening
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. Now more than ever, you should consider trip insurance for any kind of trip you take, not just cruises. Get a free quote at tripinsurance.com. Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.9 | Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas this week. I drew a blank for a second. And staff writer Richard Sims is standing by with Cruise News. Hey, Richard. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey, Doug. A popular Royal Caribbean attraction is, well, |
| 0:40.3 | going to be taken off the ships. Yeah, this is kind of cool. I have never experienced this, |
| 0:45.9 | but so over the past decade or so, there's been a real interest in developing decktop attractions |
| 0:52.7 | on ships, you know, things like roller coasters and, you know, whatever. |
| 0:57.0 | One of them, one of the most unique, actually, is Royal Caribbean's Skypad. |
| 1:02.1 | The whole concept is that you, like, you're, you put on these virtual reality headsets and then bounce on a trampoline, which is attached to bungee cords. |
| 1:09.8 | And, you know, because of the |
| 1:11.7 | virtual reality headset, you're sort of experiencing doing this in other worlds or on the moon or |
| 1:17.3 | whatever. You can also just do it without the virtual reality if it's, you know, if you're |
| 1:22.0 | afraid you're going to get sick or something. It's only on four ships on Independence, Mariner, |
| 1:29.1 | Odyssey, and Spectrum of the Seas. |
| 1:33.0 | And there have been issues with this kind of from the start. |
| 1:37.0 | Now, from a visual point of view, you know which ships have it because you've seen the pictures of them. |
| 1:41.7 | It looks like there's a giant like orange or lemon posed on the back of this ship. |
| 1:46.2 | And it's not a high-capacity attraction. |
| 1:49.6 | Like, there are always, when it's open, there's always long lines, and it's not always open because sometimes they have issues with the various equipment and stuff. |
| 1:53.5 | So it's been problematic. |
| 1:56.5 | People who do it love it, but it can also be really problematic. |
| 2:00.0 | But not anymore because it's |
| 2:02.6 | being shut down across all four ships pretty much immediately. They haven't really said what's |
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