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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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The latest cruise industry news includes Carnival Cruise Line absorbing P&O Cruises Australia, the Villa Vie Odyssey world cruise facing a third delay this week, an Alaska cruise port is set to limit cruise passengers in 2026, refunding a Carnival cruise, and the story of a teen who left his parents on a Caribbean island because they wouldn't stop shopping.

We also cover the major renovation of Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Joy in early 2024. Joining us is Chris Gray Faust, Executive Editor of CruiseCritic.com, who shares her insights from her recent Bermuda cruise on the newly refurbished NCL Joy.

Chris discusses her experience and highlights the new features, including a revamped thermal suite, an expanded Vibe Beach Club, new cabins in the Observation Lounge, and solo staterooms.

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.1	I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance.
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0:09.4	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:14.6	This is Cruise Radio.
0:15.7	Hey, I was going.
0:16.3	My name is Doug Parker.
0:17.2	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:20.3	Very happy to have you here.
0:22.1	A review of the latest refurbishment of Norwegian Joy coming up later on on this week's show.
0:28.4	But first, staff writer Richard Sims, welcome back, buddy. Well, thank you. I'm glad to be here.
0:33.3	Hey, how packed was Disney? Um, scary packed, quite honestly. There was one night when we were down at Disney Springs, or, yeah, Disney Springs. It was so crowded. We had gone down to see the drone show, and it was so crowded that I actually started to have low-level panic, and we left before the show because it was just, it was too bad. So, yeah. Wow. All right. Well, I hope you had a good time other than that
0:55.1	down there and you're back with cruise news and a lot of news on deck today, kicking things off with a
1:00.3	very big change coming to Carnival Cruise Line. I don't know about you, but I definitely didn't see
1:05.2	this one coming. And maybe we should have. So over the last few years, Carnival Corporation,
1:10.7	which encompasses, as most of you know,
1:12.8	a really big variety of cruise lines, including T&O, IEDA, and others, they've been putting a whole lot
1:21.1	of their eggs into the Carnival Cruise Line basket.
1:24.4	It's interesting.
1:25.1	A lot of people don't realize that Carnival Cruise Line and Carnival Corporation are two
1:30.0	different things. Carnival Corporation is the big mothership company, and Carnival Cruise Line is the
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