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890 MSC Seashore Review, Cruise News, + Travel Insurance Questions

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Doug Parker

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4.8609 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Kurt gives a review of a four-night Bahamas cruise on MSC Seashore. Staff writer Richard Simms has this week's run down of cruise news. Dan Skilken, President of TripInsurance.com, joins us to discuss buying travel insurance and its benefits. 

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0:00.0

This is Cruise Radio.

0:02.3

I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance.

0:05.3

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0:06.3

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0:09.2

Here we go.

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Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

0:15.3

This is Cruise Radio.

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Hey, how's it going?

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My name is Doug Parker.

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Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of MSC, Seashore from Kurt today, from Port Canaveral, a four-night cruise there. Staff writer Richard Sims, standing by with Cruise News, and tripinsurance.com's, Dan Skilken is here to field a couple of your questions. Big show today, kicking things off with

0:38.4

staff writer Richard Sims. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug. We start with another change at Carnival Cruise Line.

0:45.2

And this time it's not a change to the rewards program. I'm thrilled to report that this one is being

0:51.2

greeted with far less drama than what we saw unfolding over the last week or two.

0:56.0

And I'm pretty sure somewhere the line's brand ambassador, John Heald, is probably grateful

1:02.0

because for at least 10 minutes, people stopped messaging him about the Carnival Rewards program

1:07.7

and took a moment to thank Carnival for changing from Pepsi to Coke.

1:12.8

That's right. Carnival is switching back to Coke products. So a few years back,

1:19.2

the line ditched Coke products in favor of Pepsi, and that brought about a huge backlash.

1:25.5

For weeks, people were complaining about this. And now the decision has been

1:30.7

reversed. And it seems like, yeah, there are some people who are unhappy, but the vast

1:35.5

majority seem to be very excited about this and very happy about this. I mean, this is a huge

1:40.8

deal for both Coke and Carnival. It's not just an endorsement. It's millions and millions

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