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Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Oceania Riviera Alaska Review 2025 + Cruise News | Oceania Cruises

Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips

Doug Parker

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8636 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

A review of an Alaskan cruise on Oceania Riviera. This was an eight-night sailing from Whitter, Alaska to Vancouver, British Columbia. Staff writer Richard Simms has cruise news. 

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0:00.0

This is Cruise Radio.

0:02.0

I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance.

0:05.0

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0:09.0

Here we go.

0:10.0

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

0:15.0

This is Cruise Radio.

0:17.0

Hey, how's it going?

0:18.0

My name is Doug Parker.

0:19.0

Thank you so much for checking out this episode of

0:21.2

Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of the Oceana Riviera coming up this week.

0:27.2

Also, staff writer Richard Sims, standing by with Cruise News. We'll jump to him right now.

0:32.5

Hey, Richard. Hey, I am super excited to hear this Oceania review. You know, that's a little more high end than what I've done in the past.

0:40.2

But as you know, I've been spending more and more time doing like sweets and, you know, ship within a ship experiences.

0:47.5

And it feels as if something like Oceana is sort of the next level for me to approach.

0:52.8

So really excited to hear this review.

0:55.4

Yeah, it's also the first time in, I think, 16 years we've done an Oceana review. So I guess

1:00.1

the first time for everything. So moving on to cruise news here. We're kicking things off with

1:05.0

cruise passengers being left for a rather unusual reason on Tuesday.

1:10.4

Yeah, you hear stories all the time about people

1:12.5

not getting back to the ship on time and it leaving without them. In this case, passengers on

1:18.2

Norwegian cruise lines, Pride of America, that's the ship that they have permanently in Hawaii.

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