BONUS: Current State of the Cruise Industry

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Doug Parker

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

On this week's bonus episode, we sit down and have a conversation with former cruise line executive, Art Sbarksky. I first met Art on Norwegian Epic back in 2010, and we've seen each other all around the world since. Since retiring from the cruise industry, Art writes and reviews cruise ship. At last count, he has sailed 119 cruises.

Art and I talk about:

The value of cruising

His tenure at Crystal Cruises, Celebrity Cruises, and Norwegian Cruise Line

Freestyle cruising

Cruise ships in Alaska

Norwegian Bliss in Alaska

Lifeguards on cruise ships

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.
0:06.6	This is Cruise Radio.
0:10.2	Hey, what's up?
0:10.8	How's it going?
0:11.5	My name is Doug Parker.
0:12.4	Thanks for checking out this bonus episode of Cruise Radio.
0:16.1	An interview with former Cruise Line executive Arts Sabarski, we tackle a lot of things like lifeguards on cruise ships.
0:23.5	We're talking about Alaska and the ships sailing up there.
0:26.6	And just a one-on-one chat with Art and I about his thoughts on the current state of the industry.
0:32.0	I'm just curious.
0:33.0	I want your help on this.
0:34.4	If you want more of these interviews and you like this, let me know.
0:37.8	If you don't, I'll do less of them. Very simple because I am here for you. So I appreciate that. All right, before we get to Art, Cruise Radio News, it's our Cruise Radio Facebook group. Come join the Cruise Conversation. Also, our website, have a new search feature on there and some deck plans as well. take a look at it at cruiseradio.net. All right, here's our interview with Art Sabarski. We taped late April in Fort
1:00.1	Lauderdale. How you doing, man? I'm doing great. How are you? Good. So we first met on
1:05.4	Norwegian Epic July of 2010. LeBron James just got traded to Miami. Is that what it was?
1:13.4	I think that was the night that he made the announcement that he was taking his talents to South Beach.
1:19.0	And the only people that were happy about that were the people from Miami or who hit fans from out of the state.
1:30.6	Because the way in which he did it, the arrogance that he showed with that was funny. But hearing about it, getting the word while we were
1:36.8	out at sea, and it was still relatively early days for cell phones. Yeah, weren't you one of the
1:41.5	people that were keeping tabs on it? Yes. Well, I had my little flip phone and people were, people like Stuart Sharon and Margini were giving me so much grief about having a flip phone, but I was the first one to get the word.
1:54.0	Somehow I received it quicker than they did with all their fancy phones.
1:57.5	That's great.
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