Odyssey of The Seas Review 2026 + Cruise News | Royal Caribbean
Cruise Radio: Weekly Cruise News & Travel Tips
Doug Parker
4.8 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Cruise Radio, host Doug Parker and staff writer Richard Simms cover the latest cruise news, including dramatic man-overboard incidents, a major Carnival IT outage, a man unhappy with an onboard purchase, and cruise line Royal Caribbean Group shareholder updates.
A review of Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas during a festive New Year's Eve sailing. Jason shares insights on embarkation, dining, entertainment, specialty packages, and the new Royal Beach Club in Nassau, offering practical tips for first-time cruisers. The episode blends news, personal experiences, and expert advice for cruise planning.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:02.3 | I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance. |
| 0:05.2 | You should too. |
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| 0:09.3 | Here we go. |
| 0:11.2 | Broadcasting from the Tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. |
| 0:15.5 | This is Cruise Radio. |
| 0:17.4 | 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 Odyssey of the Seas this week. |
| 0:26.6 | And as always, staff writer Richard Sims on deck with Cruise News. Jumping to him now, |
| 0:31.3 | Hey, Richard. Hey, Doug. We start with a man overboard story, but not in the way you're probably thinking. |
| 0:37.4 | Yeah, most of the time when we talk about man overboard cases, it involves a cruise ship |
| 0:41.8 | passenger, but this time it was actually a harborboat pilot who was transferring from the |
| 0:46.8 | pilot boat to the Emerald Princess in Hawaii. Most cruisers have seen this process before |
| 0:52.6 | in which, you know, the pilot boat pulls up |
| 0:54.7 | alongside the cruise ship and the cruise ship slows down, the pilot boat speeds up and a very |
| 1:00.1 | brave person transfers from the smaller boat onto the larger one in order to guide the cruise ship |
| 1:05.8 | in or out of a port. In this case, there were 12 feet swells as the Emerald Princess was approaching the |
| 1:13.5 | Hawaiian port, and that caused the man to fall into the water. Fortunately, the pilot was able to |
| 1:19.8 | be pulled from the water unharmed. The ship's call to that particular port, which I believe |
| 1:25.5 | was Kauai, was canceled. |
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