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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This week's show Doug and Richard Simms have cruise news on the woman who got banned from Carnival Cruise Line for refilling water bottles, an Alaska cruise port trying to limit passengers even more, Carnival pulling back the $25 slot play credit on the VIFP program, Disney Cruise Line's new private island Lookout Cay, and initial thoughts of Margaritaville at Sea Islander out of Tampa.

We get a review of a seven-night cruise to Southeast Alaska on Holland America Line's ms Koningsdam out of Vancouver. This went to Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay National Park, and Ketchikan, Alaska.

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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.
0:05.0	You should too.
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0:09.4	Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:14.6	This is Cruise Radio.
0:15.8	Hey, how's it going?
0:16.4	My name is Doug Parker.
0:17.3	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:19.9	Very happy to have you here,
0:21.0	my friend. Coming up on this week's show, a review of Holland America's Konings Dam on a seven-night
0:26.5	southeast Alaska sailing out of Vancouver. And as always, staff writer Richard Sims is here with
0:31.8	Cruise News. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug Parker. So we started things off with a story that got some
0:36.1	cruise passengers worried about the
0:38.0	safety of drinking water on board. You know, one of the first questions people always have when
0:44.2	they're thinking about taking a cruise and maybe they're, you know, doing it for the first time,
0:48.7	they ask about the water on board and is it safe to drink? They generally mean the water coming from
0:53.8	the sink, which by the way, yes, is 100% safe to drink? They generally mean the water coming from the sink, which, by the way,
0:55.3	yes, is 100% safe to drink. But in the case of this next story, they're actually talking about the
1:01.2	bottled water that you find in your room. You know, you go in and there's two or three bottles of
1:05.9	water there, whether you ordered it or not, and they're not free. They're usually around, you know,
1:10.3	four or five dollars, depending on the cruise line for each bottle.
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