Margaritaville at Sea Islander 2024 Updated Review + Cruise News | Margaritaville at Sea
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Cruise news this week includes a landslide at the Alaska cruise port, Carnival Vista experiencing another round of propulsion issues, Royal Caribbean ordering more Icon Class mega-ships, a cyber attack at the Port of Seattle, four passengers arrested on a cruise for credit card fraud, and an update on the Villa Vie Odyssey world cruise.
We get an updated review of Margaritaville at Sea Islander, the latest launch from the Margaritaville brand. The ship sails four and five night voyages out of Tampa, Florida to the Western Caribbean and Key West.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
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| 0:16.2 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:19.2 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:19.8 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:20.7 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. This week's show, a second review of Margaritaville-at-Sea Islander, the old Costa ship or the old Carnival Spirit-class ship. Also, staff writer Richard Sims is here with Cruz News. Hey, Richard. |
| 0:40.8 | Hey, Douglas. And we start the week with a sad story up in Alaska. |
| 0:46.9 | Yeah, that's right. There was a landslide in Ketchikan, Alaska, which did a fair amount of damage. |
| 0:53.1 | It plowed into a house or two. It killed at least one person, injured several others. The governor of Alaska wound up issuing a state of emergency, |
| 0:57.2 | and the impacted area was immediately ordered evacuated. |
| 1:01.9 | If there is an upside to this, it's that no cruise passengers were directly involved, |
| 1:07.4 | despite this being a very, very popular destination, |
| 1:10.4 | and there being several ships going in |
| 1:12.4 | and out of port during this time period. Some excursions had to be canceled, as one might expect. |
| 1:18.6 | This latest incident comes only like a couple months after a July landslide, which actually, |
| 1:25.5 | you might remember we reported on this. Some cruisers were on their |
| 1:28.9 | way back to the ship, and the landslide actually ended up blocking their path, and they had to, |
| 1:33.8 | you know, take a boat to get back to get to another port, where they met up with the ship. |
| 1:38.6 | So that one certainly had a bigger impact directly on cruise passengers. Carnival issued a statement saying that the various |
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