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Get a free quote today at tripinsurance.com. Here we go. Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Happy to have you here, my friend, a review of the Margaritaville at sea Islander, one of the Jimmy Buffett ships out of Tampa. Staff writer Richard Sims on deck with Cruz News standing by here in just a couple of seconds. And also going to check in with Dan Skokin, and president of trip insurance.com.

Just wrapped up a couple of crazy storms, a couple of hurricanes out through that caused around

20 ship diversion. So get caught up with when you need to purchase travel insurance for

hurricane season and much, much more. All right, staff writer Richard Sims up first. Hey, Richard.

Hey, Doug.

kicking off the news with, well, some news that will impact a whole lot of cruisers and actually one of your favorite ships too, right? Yeah, yeah, it's true. It's Norwegian cruise line and they just axed around 50 cruises on four ships. The company reached out to travel agents as well as guests who were booked on the getaway, the joy, the

dawn, and as you mentioned, one of my favorite ships, the gem, which I absolutely love.

And they said that this is going to impact cruises from late 2026 into 2027.

Those cruises are basically canceled. It's a little bit weird.

In the case of the gem, she's going to basically swap places with the dawn.

As a result, the dawn will go from your neck of the woods in Jacksonville to Tampa,

and the gem will do the opposite.

They're really literally just switching places.

And the reason I say this is a little odd is they are basically the same ship. I mean, they are the same basic size. I think one holds like 50 passengers more than the other. So it's just, it just seems odd to do this. And inconvenience so many people and cancel so many cruises just to swap two ships that

are the same size to opposite ports. Very odd. In any case, the new itineraries for these two

ships should be coming out soon. As for Norwegian Joy and Getaway, there aren't quite as many

cancellations, and the reason cited is port availability, but what they're doing is because of this port availability or unavailability, as the case may be, they're axing some of the short cruises and replacing them with longer itineraries.

And like with the other ships, those new itineraries and the new schedules and stuff should be out very soon because they want to start booking that stuff.

But so, yeah, if you're on, if you're on one of those cruises on those four ships toward the end of 2026, you know, you might get canceled.

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