This is Cruise Radio. I cruise a lot and I always sail with travel insurance. You should too. Get a free quote today at tripinsurance.com. Here we go. Broadcasting from the tripinsurance.com studios in Jacksonville, Florida. This is Cruise Radio. Hey, how's it going? My name is Doug Parker. Thank you so much for checking out this episode of Cruise Radio. Very happy to have you here, my friend. A review of Virgin Voyages valiant lady this week. And as always, staff writer Richard Sims standing by with Cruise News, jumping to him now. Hey, Richard.

Hey, Doug. This week's News Roundup begins with an update on a story that began unfolding about a year ago during a Taylor Swift theme cruise.

Yeah, now, let's get this out of the way right up front because I don't want to get, you know, 10,000 emails from Tatea fans calling us out.

The singer had absolutely nothing to do with this cruise or what happened on it or this story. And sadly,

what happened on it was tragic for one family as a 66-year-old woman named Dulce White fell overboard

as Royal Caribbean's Lord of the Seas was sailing toward the Bahamas. This was a chartered fan event celebrating all things Taylor Swift.

Now, the family of the woman who went overboard is suing Royal Caribbean saying that crew members

over-served her mom. The woman had purchased a drink package, and her daughter says she was

put, you know, that her mom was probably trying to get her money's worth out of it later in the evening um someone helped her back to her

stateroom and when the daughter went in her she saw her mom out on the balcony and she thought

that maybe her mom was trying to get something out of her luggage because apparently for some

reason they had stored their luggage out on the balcony, which I've never heard people doing that

before, but I guess it's a thing. She thought that's what her mom was doing, but when she looked again,

she realized that her mom had climbed up on the railing and was facing the water and eventually

went overboard.

An attorney for the family said that not only do they blame the crew for overserving the woman,

but their ultimate goal with this lawsuit is to see all cruise lines do away with unlimited drink packages.

So, you know, I struggle with stories like this because I obviously you feel for the family.

It's a terrible thing that happened.

And you do, we certainly have all seen situations where, you know, someone has had too much to drink and maybe some, maybe the crew should stop serving them.

There's also the issue of personal responsibility, you know.

And I think that's going to be what probably becomes the fulcum of this case, if and when it moves forward, is where the responsibility for what happened lies.

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