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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Tim talks about his eight night sailing on Carnival Magic to Aruba, Bonaire, and Curacao in the Southern Caribbean. This ABC cruise left from Port Miami and had an extended stay at each of the islands lasting into the evening.
Doug Parker and cruise news reporter Richard Simms discuss major cruise industry updates.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance. You should too. Get a free quote today at tripinsurance.com. |
| 0:09.3 | Here we go. Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.4 | Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. Coming up on this week's show, |
| 0:25.5 | a ABC Island Cruise on Carnival Magic. And as always, staff writer Richard Sims here to bring |
| 0:32.3 | us this week's cruise news jumping to him now. Hey, Richard. |
| 0:35.7 | Hey, Doug. So let's start with an update on a story we've been tracking since the weekend. |
| 0:41.1 | What's the latest on Celebrity Infinity? |
| 0:44.0 | Well, it's sort of a good news, bad news situation developing where the ship is concerned. |
| 0:49.0 | So last week, the ship had a technical issue and it seems to have been a small fire which left it dead in |
| 0:58.0 | the water and it had to be escorted by tugboats to Greece, which was supposed to be its final stop, |
| 1:03.7 | but they got there a day early, guests had to disembark, it was a little bit of mess. |
| 1:08.3 | That's where things were when last we checked on this story. |
| 1:12.9 | So the good news, bad news I mentioned, well, the bad news is that the sailing, which was supposed to set sail on Monday, had to be canceled. |
| 1:22.0 | The day before guests were set to embark, they received notice that the ship or that the trip had been canceled. |
| 1:28.2 | The email said in part, and I'm quoting here, while our experts have been working diligently, |
| 1:33.2 | we need additional time to complete necessary assessments and repairs. |
| 1:37.7 | So what good news could possibly be coming out of this? |
| 1:41.7 | Well, it's good news for the folks at Celebrity |
| 1:46.0 | because the sailing they had to cancel |
| 1:48.0 | was an 11-day voyage. |
| 1:49.5 | So that gives them a little bit of room |
| 1:51.4 | and a little bit of time to figure out what's going wrong. |
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