Cruise Port ICU Pods, Extending Cruise Cancellations, and Listener Questions - CRR 046

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4.8 • 609 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Staff writer Richard Simms joins us to talk about the details of Norwegian Cruise Line's extension of their suspension of cruises. A company has an idea of putting mobile ICU units in cruise ports across the Caribbean. Norwegian Holdings and Royal Caribbean bolster liquidity.

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Date: April 26, 2020

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0:00.0	You are listening to this is Cruise Radio Rewind. Real reviews from real cruisers.
0:08.3	Welcome to this weekend's episode of Cruise Radio Rewind. My name is Doug Parker. And this is your first time listening. Thank you so much for making us a part of your morning and checking us out.
0:17.7	Cruise Radio Rewind is a carryover from our podcast that airs on Thursday called
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0:49.1	All right, we'll jump to staff writer Richard Sims to talk about a couple of stories that
0:52.6	popped up since Thursday.
0:54.8	Hey, Richard. Hey, Richard.
0:59.8	Hey, Doug. We've been asking the question for a long time. When is a Norwegian cruise line going to cancel more sailings and quit saying they're going to sail in May? We found out that on Friday.
1:05.0	Yeah, this one hurt. You know, I have a cruise booked, or I guess had one booked for early June.
1:13.0	And, you know, realistically, I knew it wasn't going to happen.
1:16.0	But like a lot of other people that are in that same boat or ship as the case may be,
1:20.3	I was holding out hope.
1:23.0	And finally, this week, the hammer came down.
1:26.2	And Norwegian announced that they would be canceling all cruises through June 30th with their goal now to be to start sailing for the first time on July 1st.
1:37.1	Of course, who knows if that will really happen.
1:39.8	Compensation-wise, you know, they're doing basically what they've been doing for a while now is you can either get a full cash refund or, you know, refunded to the form of payment you used, or if you are willing to take a future cruise credit, you get a hundred and twenty-five percent future cruise credit.
1:57.4	And as an added bonus, if you book within a certain period of time, you can get an
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