BONUS Hurricane Irma Recovery Efforts + Caribbean Cruise Update

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Doug Parker

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

We have an information-packed bonus episode this week as we get wall to wall coverage of Hurricane Irma and those impacted by the storm.

We talk with Sherry Kennedy from CruiseMaven.com about the efforts that Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line are doing to send their ships to rescue stranded vacationers.

Simon Duvall from Cruiseline.com gives us an island assessment of the Eastern Caribbean islands of St. Thomas, St. John, Puerto Rico, St. Maarten, Grand Turk, and others that were in the path of the storm.

We also link up with a guest who is currently onboard Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas, sailing a seven-night western Caribbean cruise. Due to Hurricane Irma, the ship has been forced to extend its sailing and will be returning to Port Canaveral a few days late. We get a glimpse of life onboard and how everyone is holding up.

Matt from Royal Caribbean Blog stops by to answer some questions about the cruise contract and passenger bill of rights during hurricanes, he chats with us about where cruise ships go during the storm, and what Royal Caribbean used Enchantment of the Seas for during the storm.

John Heald aired a Facebook Live video on Saturday evening to people impacted and in the way of Hurricane Irma.

Becky Smith is a travel agent who is rebooking a lot of clients who were scheduled to sail this past week. Becky chats with us about the reasons to use a travel agent (especially during hurricane season), how the cruise lines are compensating guests that are impacted by the storm, what particulars travel insurance would cover in a hurricane, and what you should know about booking a cruise during hurricane season.

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.0	Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for joining me on this bonus episode of Cruise Radio, all about Hurricane Arma and the impacts it has had across the whole southeast and across the eastern Caribbean, too. I mean, just some devastating photos turning up. On this episode, we're going to talk to someone who is on Oasis of the Seas currently right now. Their cruise has been extended a couple of days because they can't get back into port.
0:25.0	Also, we'll talk to Matt Hodgeberg from Royal Caribbean blog.
0:27.7	Get a soundbite from John Heald, Sherry Kennedy, standing by to give us some cruise news from
0:32.1	cruzmaven.com.
0:33.5	Oh my gosh, we have so many people on the show.
0:35.1	Travel Agent Becky Smith is coming on to talk about how you're impacted during hurricane season. Simon Duval ofcruisline.com. He's going to give us an island update, we'll call it, to see how everybody's doing down there in the Eastern Caribbean. So, and a couple of other soundbites, too. Very, very busy show, so we'll get right to it. First off, Sherry Kennedy's here from cruisemaven.com to give us a news update.
0:56.2	Hey, Sherry.
0:56.7	Hey, Doug.
0:57.4	So I guess a silver lining in all this, Sherry, is that a couple of cruise lines are getting together and helping some folks down in the Eastern Caribbean right now, which is very good to see. Tell us about it. Well, this is really unique. I'm sure. We're Royal Caribbean first just announced that they're going to mobilize ships and supplies
0:55.3	to help people in need.
1:14.9	And then presently, Adventure of the Seas is scheduled to make a humanitarian stop in St. Martin,
1:21.6	the Dutch side on Sunday, and the Majesty of the Seas will also make a humanitarian call in St. Thomas
1:30.0	and also St. Martin to bring supplies and also assist in transporting evacuees in St. Martin
1:36.9	back to safety, and they must be going through one heck of a time there.
1:42.1	And good for Royal Caribbean, and at the same time, Norwegian
1:45.6	Cruise Line has announced that they are also sending a rescue mission to the Caribbean. And they have
1:52.6	said that in the wake of this devastating storm, quote, we will be deploying Norwegian sky from her
1:58.3	current position off the coast of Cancun to St. Thomas. They're going to
2:04.3	retrieve about 2,000 travelers who were unable to evacuate prior to the storm coming in. So that's,
2:12.4	you know, that's really, like you said, a silver lining if there is one but uh... the norwegian ship
2:19.1	will depart immediately and it's supposed to arrive sometime uh... late evening
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