Carnival Mardi Gras Design Team Member | CRR 066

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Glenn Aprile is a member of the design team for Carnival Cruise Line's upcoming Mardi Gras. Recently they just developed a new atrium concept for the Grand Central zone of the ship. Glenn talks about the design concept and why certain changes were made.

Date: September 27, 2020

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0:00.0	You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind. Real reviews from Real Cruisers.
0:08.2	Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thanks for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio Rewind.
0:12.9	Glenn and Prillay on the show today. He's on the design team of the upcoming Carnival Mardi Gras.
0:17.5	He's going to talk all about their new Atrium concept.
0:20.3	Glenn is spearheading a lot of the public spaces and areas on Mardi Gras. He's going to talk all about their new atrium concept. Glenn is spearheading
0:21.9	a lot of the public spaces and areas on Mardi Gras. In fact, he was overseeing most recently the
0:27.6	Bolt concept, which is a roller coaster debuting on Mardi Gras when it comes over to Florida in
0:33.0	February of 2021. Just a few short months. I cannot wait to get back to cruising. And speaking of that,
0:39.9	the plans have been submitted to the CDC. In any moment now, we should be hearing their decision,
0:45.6	whether it's yay or nay, on moving forward with cruising again. So going to be a short episode
0:51.6	today. Hope you don't mind, but we'll get back into the swing of
0:54.4	things next weekend, hopefully. Glenn Apprile is the director of new build product development for
0:59.8	Carnival Cruise Line and part of the Marty Grau design team. And he joins us on the line. Thanks for
1:04.9	stopping by, Glenn. Thank you. Thank you for having me. So you just released the renderings of the
1:10.2	Grand Central Atrium for the upcoming
1:12.4	megashift, Mardi Gras.
1:13.6	And it's safe to say this atrium is a departure from other carnival cruise ships.
1:18.8	What makes the Atrium such a vital space on a cruise ship?
1:22.7	For me, there are many things that make the atrium so important to a ship in general,
1:27.3	and this ship in particular. I mean, for one, the atrium so important to a ship in general, and this ship in particular.
1:28.5	I mean, for one, the atrium is the heartbeat of the ship.
1:31.9	It's socially located.
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