Weekend Cruise News Brief - July 8, 2018 [BETA]

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🗓️ 8 July 2018

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Your cruise news brief for July 8, 2018. Royal Caribbean has altered an itinerary because of Tropical Storm Beryl. Carnival Cruise Line goes back into another West Coast port. Norwegian Cruise Line added a new package to their newest ship.

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0:00.0	I'm Doug Parker, and this is your Sunday morning cruise news briefing for July 8th, 2018.
0:05.7	Hurricane season has started early this year as once hurricane, now tropical storm barrel, is spinning in the Caribbean and impacting at least one cruise itinerary.
0:14.7	Royal Caribbean sent out an email late Saturday afternoon stating they'll be swapping itineraries for Sunday's Oasis of the Seas voyage.
0:22.3	Oasis will now stop at Nassau, St. Thomas, and St. Martin, instead of the planned Labadee, Cozumel, and Falmouth, Jamaica.
0:29.8	At the time of broadcast, Oasis of the Seas is the only cruise ship to be impacted by the tropical storm.
0:35.6	Call it the cruise ship shuffle. Yeah, Carnival Cruise Line is headed back to San Diego in late 2019 to make room in Long Beach
0:42.4	for the upcoming Carnival Panorama.
0:44.7	Starting in 2019, we will be sailing Carnival Miracle from the Port of San Diego.
0:51.2	The first ship that we'll have here in seven years.
0:54.1	That was Christine Duffy,
0:55.5	president of Carnival Cruise Line. Carnival Miracle will sail to the Mexican Riviera from San Diego
1:00.3	and offer extended 14 and 15 night sailings to Hawaii. And Travel Weekly is reporting that
1:05.8	Norwegian Cruise Line has added a daily and weekly pass to its go-carts on board the brand new Norwegian Bliss.
1:12.6	Guests can now purchase an unlimited go-kart pass for $29.95 per day or $99.95 for the full week.
1:19.6	The standard price of $9.95 for an eight-minute ride remains the same.
1:24.5	Norwegian Bliss is the second Norwegian cruise line ship to get a go-car track,
1:28.3	the first being the Asia-based Norwegian Joy. For more stories, visit cruiseradio.net. I'm Doug Parker
1:34.6	for Cruise Radio News.

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