Norwegian Gem Bahamas Review 2026 + Cruise News | Norwegian Cruise Line
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
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🗓️ 31 May 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
A review of Norwegian Gem on a five night Bahamas cruise from Jacksonville, Florida.
Staff writer Richard has cruise news.
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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. |
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| 0:09.0 | Here we go. |
| 0:10.9 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:15.2 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.5 | Hey, how's it going? |
| 0:18.4 | My name is Doug Parker. |
| 0:19.3 | Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. |
| 0:24.6 | Kicking things off this week is staff writer Richard Sims with a little spillover of cruise news because we had a lot of news on Thursday, didn't we? |
| 0:34.2 | Oh, we had so much news. And even now, as we're doing it, we're getting more news coming in. |
| 0:38.9 | So maybe we'll do one, 10 minutes from now. Well, we're going to start with us a slew of new changes being made on board at Disney Cruise Line. |
| 0:49.2 | Yeah, this sort of came out of nowhere, as far as I could tell. I hadn't really heard any rumblings of this, |
| 0:54.5 | but they're tightening up things where some of their onboard policies, and this all starts on |
| 1:00.0 | June 3rd. So as we're recording this, that would be next week. The changes are going to include |
| 1:06.5 | how much alcohol you can bring on board, rules about cabin decoration, selfie sticks. |
| 1:12.5 | So under the new rules, guests will be allowed to bring one bottle of wine on board for the entire cruise, |
| 1:18.9 | which is down from the previous policy, that allowed additional bottles could be purchased in port. |
| 1:24.4 | So, you know, and this is, I think this is pretty standard for most ships, |
| 1:28.1 | is, you know, they don't necessarily allow you to buy more imports. So you can bring your |
| 1:32.8 | one bottle on board there. They're also putting new rules in place regarding state room |
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