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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today's episode features a review of a Norwegian Escape cruise in the Mediterranean by a Madison, as well as cruise news segments by staff writer Richard Simms.

We discuss rumors about Carnival Cruise Line requiring passports for all passengers, which are later debunked, and stress the importance of having a government-issued birth certificate and a passport for cruises. Simms talks about Royal Caribbean's recent problem of overbooking their ships and offering compensation to passengers who opt out of their cruise.

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.3	Now more than ever, you should consider trip insurance for any kind of trip you take, not just cruises.
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0:11.0	Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:16.3	Cruise Radio.
0:17.6	Hey, how's it going?
0:18.2	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. A review of
0:21.8	Norwegian escaped today, a nine-night Mediterranean cruise from Madison. Also, we have staff writer
0:29.1	Richard Sims in the wings with Cruise News. Hello, Richard. Doug, it feels like forever since I've
0:35.1	spoken to you. I know, a 20-day cruise and then some time in
0:38.4	Amsterdam, but here we are. And right to the news, Carnival Cruise Line has shot down a rumor.
0:45.3	I love rumors. And I love even better when the rumors are about Carnival, because when they're about
0:49.6	carnival, inevitably John Heald, the brand ambassador, addresses them.
0:54.8	Most of the other cruise lines don't have, you know, sort of that direct align with their public.
1:00.5	But John is, he addresses things that he probably shouldn't address.
1:05.2	But in this case, there were rumors all over the place.
1:07.3	I saw them on Twitter a few times, suggesting that Carnival Cruise Line was going
1:10.9	to start insisting that all passengers, regardless of where they were sailing to or from, would need
1:17.3	passports. This caused a little bit of consternation for some people who, for whatever reason,
1:23.4	don't have and don't intend to, and don't want to get passports. But as is often the case,
1:30.0	it turns out there was no truth to the rumors. And is also usually the case, it was John Heald,
1:35.4	who set the record straight. So no, passengers doing closed loop cruises, meaning leaving from
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