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816 Margaritaville at Sea Islander Review + Cruise News | Margaritaville at Sea

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A review of Margaritaville at Sea Islander. This is the new cruise ship from the late Jimmy Buffett's successful Margaritaville brand.

Doug Parker and staff writer Richard Simms discuss the week's top news stories, including a woman who got an expensive bill from the infirmary after she got seasick, a cruise ship getting seized in Italy for being too dirty, a world cruise delayed for the fourth time, Greece looking to cap cruise passengers, and the SS United States getting evicted from its pier in Philadelphia.

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0:18.8

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Coming up on this week's show, a review of the Margaritaville at Sea Islander. Yeah, the brand new ship from, well, transferred over from Costa Cruises, now part of the late Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville brand sailing out of Tampa. Matthew will be checking in in just a little bit with that review. But first, as always, staff writer Richard Sims.

0:40.0

Hey, Richard.

0:40.9

Hey, Doug.

0:45.8

Our first story comes to us directly from the infirmary of Norwegian Bliss.

0:50.8

You know, there's nothing I like more than kicking things off with a story, which will allow all of our listeners to learn a valuable life lesson.

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In this case, a woman was on the Norwegian Bliss when the ship hit kind of a rough patch,

1:00.2

and she got a little bit seasick, so she went down to the infirmary,

1:04.5

and the doctors there were able to give her some meds and take care of her, send her on her way.

1:11.0

Unfortunately, she then got hit with the bill, which she was kind of surprised that for such a

1:15.9

simple thing as going to the clinic for seasickness was a whopping $2,000.

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Now, that seems like a lot, but it's important to know that any visit to the infirmary on any ship is going to get

1:29.0

real costly, real fast. They have limited supplies, and so there's usually a premium charge

1:35.4

for any meds they might distribute. There's also the big charge for services rendered. In other

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