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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

When the Norwegian Breakaway sailed through a winter storm, some passengers say things got rough. We speak to one of the people who just disembarked, as well as cruise expert Stewart Chiron, to find out if this was an unusual sailing or to be expected this time of year.

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:03.0	Hey, how's it going?
0:04.0	My name is Doug Parker.
0:05.0	Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio.
0:07.0	You know, you're probably wondering why are you doing a weekend episode of Cruise Radio?
0:10.0	It's because, well, it's a special episode we'll call this, because with the incident
0:14.0	aboard Norwegian Breakaway where they sailed into the winter storm and it's making headlines across all the major TV networks, newspapers, publications, what have you. I figure we might as well tackle the elephant in the room. So on the show this weekend, we have Mary Lou. She just got off of Norwegian breakaway a few hours ago. And Stuart Shiran, the Cruise Guy, America's most quoted cruise expert here to give us his take on the event. So we'll jump right to our first guest,
0:37.9	Mary Lou, welcome to the show. Yes, nice to talk to you. Yeah, likewise. Welcome home.
0:42.7	Thank you very much. What is your background as far as cruise history? So this is our fourth cruise,
0:48.7	David and I, and this is our third NCL cruise, so our third Norwegian cruise.
0:54.5	Okay.
0:55.1	Second time that we've sailed out of Manhattan.
0:57.4	Okay, yeah, it seems like a lot of NCL fans love to sail breakaway out of Manhattan.
1:01.6	It's beautiful.
1:02.7	I mean, it's a lovely, you know, out the Hudson, pastor.
1:06.0	Yeah, such an iconic sailaway out of New York City.
1:08.9	So what was the first indication that you might be in for a
1:11.9	rough few days at sea? So the first indication that we had was on the second of January, which was
1:20.7	our third sort of port of call, which is Great Sturip K Bahamas. So we were waiting. It was in the
1:27.2	morning sort of 9.30 or so, and we were waiting in the line to get on a tender
1:31.2	to go to the private island.
1:34.0	And a bunch of people went out on a tender, and we were going to be on the next one
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