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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Carnival Magic Review from Miami + Cruise News | Carnival Cruise Line

Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Doug Parker

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A six-night review of Carnival Magic from PortMiami that called to Half Moon Cay, Amber Cove, and Grand Turk. Plus, staff writer Richard Simms has cruise news. 

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0:00.0

This is Cruise Radio.

0:02.3

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0:05.3

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0:09.3

Here we go.

0:11.2

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

0:15.5

This is Cruise Radio.

0:17.2

Hey, how's it going?

0:17.9

My name is Doug Parker.

0:18.9

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of Carnival Magic this week on a

0:26.3

Caribbean cruise. Staff writer Richard Sims is standing by with Cruise News. And Cruise News today

0:32.7

you'll find that Monday through Friday 7 a.m. Eastern, just opposite of this channel or where you listen to

0:38.7

your favorite podcast. Also on YouTube. All right, staff writer Richard Sims is here. Hey, Richard.

0:44.2

Hey, Doug. We kick things off with major news coming out of Hawaii that could have a big impact on

0:50.1

future cruises out there. Yeah, I don't know. I feel like I should say, if you're planning to go to Hawaii, go now,

0:56.4

because you may not be able to, at least not as easily, in the next couple of years.

1:01.2

The Hawaii Department of calling for a 50% reduction in cruise calls by 2030.

1:07.5

And then on top of that, they are also suggesting an additional 50% reduction by 2035.

1:14.4

Now, this new rule, if it goes into effect, would not impact home-ported ships.

1:22.6

Of course, there's only one of those, really, the Pride of America, which is a Norwegian cruise

1:27.5

line ship.

1:28.5

But it would include other big ships which visit there as part of their itineraries.

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