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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
This week we cover major cruise industry news, including Carnival's pricing error controversy, an assault incident aboard Carnival Spirit, hantavirus and norovirus outbreaks affecting multiple ships, a tragic mobility scooter accident at Celebration Key, and Disney Adventure's abrupt canceled sailing in Singapore.
We also talk to Tony who took a seven-night Western Caribbean cruise from Tampa, and his first solo cruise. He talks about this port days in Cozumel and Harvest Caye, specialty dining, entertainment, and how trip insurance saved him when his flight was canceled due to a winter storm in the Northeast.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:02.2 | I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance. |
| 0:05.1 | You should too. |
| 0:06.1 | Get a free quote today at Tripinsurance.com. |
| 0:11.0 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:15.2 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.2 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:18.1 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:19.0 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of Norwegian cruise lines, Norwegian Dawn this week. And as always, staff writer Richard Sims on deck with Cruz News. Hey, Richard. |
| 0:33.7 | Hey, Doug. kicking things off with a reminder that if it seems too good to be true, it most likely is. |
| 0:40.8 | That is 100% true, Doug. And I'm just going to give you a little preview here. |
| 0:46.0 | We're going to circle back around by the end of this show to prove this true. |
| 0:50.7 | But right now, in this case, we're talking about people who went on the Carnival |
| 0:54.6 | Cruise Line website and booked cruises that were incredibly cheap, like super cheap. |
| 1:01.2 | Soon after, those people who had booked those cruises received word from Carnival that, well, |
| 1:06.4 | those rates were accidents resulting from some IT issues, and shocker, Carnival will not be honoring them. |
| 1:13.8 | Those reservations were canceled, obviously. Now, I'm going to give Carnival credit here for doing |
| 1:18.8 | something they definitely did not have to do. They actually gave each person who confirmed and |
| 1:24.7 | booked one of those accidental rates a $100 future cruise credit that they could |
| 1:29.6 | use on any booked sailing between now and the end of August. That said, a lot of people thought |
| 1:35.7 | Carnival should eat the costs and honor the reservations. They're like, hey, they made the |
| 1:41.3 | mistake. You shouldn't, you know, be penalized for that. Of course, |
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