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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Doug Parker

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of Cruise Radio, host Doug Parker and staff writer Richard Sims cover major cruise news, including a video voyeurism arrest on Celebrity Beyond, a fishermen's protest blocking ships in Corsica, a grounding incident in Fiji, Holland America's gratuity increase, Miami's proposed airport-to-port train link, Alaska's Tracy Arm Fjord closure due to a landslide, and recent upgrades to Holland America's ms Koningsdam.

Tim from Fargo, North Dakota, shares his review of a spontaneous four-night Carnival Radiance cruise from Long Beach, highlighting dining, entertainment, ports of call, and a pre-cruise stay on the historic Queen Mary.

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0:00.0	This is Cruise Radio.
0:02.0	I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance.
0:05.3	You should too.
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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.
0:17.6	Hey, how's it going?
0:18.5	My name is Doug Parker.
0:19.4	Thank you so much for checking out this episode of
0:21.6	Cruise Radio. A review of Carnival Radiance this week. And staff writer Richard Sims is here with
0:28.2	Cruise News jumping to him now. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug. We start with an extremely disturbing story
0:34.5	regarding the arrest of a cruise passenger.
0:42.0	Yeah, the best thing I can say about this particular story is that the person responsible was the caught. So this took place on the celebrity beyond where a member of the cleaning crew
0:48.1	found a pen with a video camera that was hidden beneath some discarded hand towels.
0:54.3	If you look at the picture of the pen, I honestly don't know how the person realized there was a camera there, but they did, thank goodness.
1:04.6	Upon discovering it, they took it to the ship's security team and the security footage.
1:10.3	They looked at the security footage, and they basically narrowed down the list of suspects to around nine people.
1:15.6	This was a unisex bathroom.
1:17.1	It's worth mentioning.
1:18.8	When the ship docked in Crown Bay on April 1st, agents were able to take a look at the footage on the pen, and it actually showed the person responsible, the guy who was doing it.
1:30.5	You know, the camera actually caught him putting it in place and positioning it in such a way that he could record people using the toilet.
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