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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Norwegian Escape NYC 2025 Review, Flight Insurance, & Cruise News | Norwegian Cruise Line

Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Doug Parker

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

A Bahamas review of Norwegian Escape. Richard Simms has cruise news. Learning about how travel insurance impacts passengers during air traffic control delays and flight cancellations.

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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.

0:05.2

You should too.

0:06.2

Get a free quote today at Tripinsurance.com.

0:09.2

Here we go.

0:10.9

Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida.

0:15.2

This is Cruise Radio.

0:17.2

Hey, how's it going?

0:18.0

My name is Doug Parker.

0:18.9

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of

0:21.0

Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of Norwegian Escape this week. Yeah, we did one about, I don't know, six or eight weeks ago, but this one is a New York City one. And kind of a weird twist here because there was a storm in the area as this cruise was sailing. So that's coming up. Also, staff writer Richard Sims here with Cruise News.

0:38.1

And Dan Skilken, president of coming up. Also, staff writer Richard Sims here with Cruise News.

0:38.1

And Dan Skilken, president of Tripinsurance.com gives us some information about how travel

0:43.9

insurance comes into play surrounding the air traffic control delays and cancellation.

0:49.2

So first off, staff writer Richard Sims, hey there.

0:51.5

Hey, Doug. We start this week with a tragedy that is also a little bit of a mystery at the time of recording.

0:57.6

I was just going to say that at the time of recording is very important because, you know, depending on when you listen to this, there may be more information.

1:03.8

The mystery may have been solved. But as of right now, we don't know a lot about this except an 18-year-old woman was found dead on board the

1:13.4

Carnival Horizon. And as of this recording, that's like almost all we know. Her name was

1:20.5

Anna Kepner. And by all accounts, she was the type of young person who was on track for, you know,

1:26.5

she was on a great track. She was

1:28.7

an A student. She was planning to join the military after school. There's no word on exactly how

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