Carnival Valor Review 2025 + Cruise News | Carnival Cruise Line
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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A review of a five night Western Caribbean cruise on Carnival Valor to Progresso, Mexico and Cozumel from New Orleans. Staff writer Richard Simms has cruise news.
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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. |
| 0:05.0 | You should too. |
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| 0:09.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:11.0 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:15.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:18.0 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of |
| 0:21.3 | Cruise Radio, a review of Carnival Valor this week, sailing out of the Big Easy with Amy. And as |
| 0:27.8 | always, staff writer Richard Sims is here with Cruise News. Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug, and I'm going to |
| 0:33.1 | beg the listeners to be a little bit kind to me today because I'm under the weather, so I may |
| 0:38.6 | sniffle and cough my way through this. We kick things off with a family vacation that didn't |
| 0:44.1 | go quite as planned. Ever wonder what you would do if a member of your travel party was |
| 0:49.2 | kicked off the ship for some reason? Like, you know, you're having this amazing vacation and all |
| 0:53.8 | of a sudden, you know, somebody in your party gets kicked off for whatever reason. Like, you know, you're having this amazing vacation and all of a sudden, |
| 0:54.9 | you know, somebody in your party gets kicked off for whatever reason. What do you do? |
| 1:00.4 | Well, a 44-year-old Australian guy found out when he was booted off Anthem of the Seas after |
| 1:06.4 | getting involved in a brawl with another guest, Although the police didn't arrest him, Royal Caribbean |
| 1:12.4 | enforced their own policy by having him removed from the ship. The rest of his family, though, |
| 1:18.1 | they were like, okay, we're out of here. They continued with the 10 days sailing. And remember, |
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