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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This podcast episode discusses Doug's 20-day sailing experience on the Holland America Line's ship ms Rotterdam. Doug and Richard discuss boredom with all those sea days, music, meals, and internet connectivity.

Doug shares his experience at the exact spot where the Titanic sank, stepping out of his comfort zone by trying new things like painting and playing pickleball.

They also briefly mention the ports of call on Richard's Rotterdam sailing, including Copenhagen's Tivoli Gardens and the Little Mermaid statue. Doug dispels some myths about cruising at the end of the episode.

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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
0:06.8	just cruises. Get a free quote at tripinsurance.com.
0:11.0	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:16.3	Cruise Radio.
0:17.3	Hey, how's it going? Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:20.6	Very happy to have you here.
0:22.3	A review, kind of, of Holland America's Rotterdam this week.
0:26.6	And staff writer, Richard Sims, is here with Cruise News.
0:29.9	Hello, Richard.
0:31.1	Hello, Douglas.
0:32.2	So it looks like a Norwegian ship is getting their itinerary impacted in Alaska, but not until next year.
0:38.8	Yeah, there are probably a whole lot of disappointed people out there because
0:42.9	Norwegian just canceled an entire season's worth of Alaska sailings on the Norwegian spirit.
0:49.9	I mean, the good news is that the impacted cruises weren't set to sail until July of
0:55.2	2024. So it's between July 3rd of 2024 and September 18th. All of those were axed
1:01.8	because of what Norwegian is calling a full ship charter. There's not a lot of information about
1:06.6	what this charter is, whether it's, you know, is the ship going to do Alaska sailings, but, you know, perhaps some
1:12.1	organization has booked it for a month, or is this one of those things where, you know, we've
1:18.0	seen situations before where government agencies have paid to use a ship for, you know, two or three
1:25.0	months for whatever they need. Now, usually that's in the case of
1:27.6	emergencies when there's been like a hurricane and they need to house people or shelter workers.
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