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Episode 92 – Harbor Pilots

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St. John’s River harbor pilot, Captain Bryson joins us this week to talk about the duties of a harbor pilot and anwers your questions.

Health and fitness blogger Meghann Anderson from “Meals and Miles” talks to us about eating healthy at sea.

Stewart Chiron The Cruise Guy® is back with more Cruise News about the lawsuit in Charleston, SC. The plot thickens. Find out who is suing who.

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Episode 88 – MSC Opera Update

admin — Thu, 19 May 2011 04:59:57 +0000

The Italian cruise line MSC had some issues earlier this week with one of their ships in the Mediterranean Sea, the Opera. Stewart Chiron The Cruise Guy® weighs in on the story, tells us what happened, and gives us the latest, plus the latest Cruise News.

Doug interviews the Cruise Director and Executive Chef on the Holland America ms. Prinsendam.

Last week Doug had a chance to stay at the brand new B Ocean hotel on Fort Lauderdale Beach. Find out all about the B Ocean hotel here.
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Interview with Cruise Director, John Heald

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:46:46 +0000

This was a last minute video taping with Carnival Cruise Lines Sr. Cruise Director, John Heald, so what you see is what you get.

Episode 63 – Holiday Call-in Show

admin — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:36:03 +0000

We answer listener calls in this episode.

The Cruise Guy® America’s most quoted cruise expert stops by to chat about:

Royal Caribbean’s Allure of the Seas.
The Carnival Splendor and the refund issues.
Celebrity Eclipse in Miami.

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Episode 62 – Carnival Splendor

admin — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:25:46 +0000

Earlier this week the Carnival Cruise Line’s ship “Carnival Splendor” suffered an engine fire which left the ship helpless at sea until the US Navy and the tugs arrived.

Guest Line Up:

Stewart Chiron: The Cruise Guy® America’s most quoted cruise expert. Contributor to ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, WGN, Good Morning America, CNBC, Travel Channel and CNN

Amber Haslerud: A passenger from Southern California who was on the ship with her mother. She recalls her story.

Marquis Horace: LA resident who was on the seven night journey. He chats about his stateroom, the announcements made and how the crew kept the passengers informed of all the happenings aboard the vessel.

The passengers recall how professional the staff and Cruise Director John Heald was during the incident (fire) at sea.

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Episode 58 – Live From Key West

admin — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:15:10 +0000

This week Doug is down in Key West broadcasting from Pier B at Mallory Square.

Stewart Chiron the Cruise Guy talks about his rendezvous with Queen Elizabeth in Southampton, England.

The Carnival Freedom Cruise Director joins Doug chatting about all things Carnival Freedom.

A street performer from Mallory Squares talks with us about performing daily in Key West at the Sunset Celebration

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Episode 51 – Aboard the Carnival Dream

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:10:12 +0000

We are aboard the Carnival Dream doing it live from Port Canaveral. Hear all about the Dream and what life on board is like.

Stewart Chiron The Cruise Guy® also joins us with his weekly Cruise News and commentary.

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Episode 39 – Aboard the Carnival Fascination

admin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:51:22 +0000

In effort to promote the Cruise Port here in Jacksonville, we broadcasted this week on the “Carnival Fascination.” We had the pleasure of speaking with the Hotel Director, Chef du Cuisine, and the Assistant Cruise Director.

Stewart Chiron (Cruise Guy) joins us with weekly commentary.

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Jacksonville to Look at Cruise Terminal Again

admin — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:51:16 +0000

Jacksonville Business Journal – by Mark Szakonyi -Staff Writer

The Jacksonville Port Authority will decide within the next two months whether it will pursue a new cruise terminal in Mayport.

Authority board Chairman David Kulik’s plans to direct his staff on Monday to restart the pursuit of a new terminal come a year after the authority put its plans on hold. If the authority stays in the cruise business, a new terminal is needed since the site of the present cruise terminal at Dames Point will be the future home of Hanjin Shipping’s new container terminal.

“If we don’t make a decision and if we don’t have a plan, I wouldn’t blame the cruise line from continuing its operations elsewhere,” Kulik said.

Savannah has recently expressed interest in attracting Carnival Cruise Lines if Jacksonville doesn’t build a new terminal. Kulik said potential terminal sites east of the Dames Point Bridge other than Mayport have been found in the past year, but he declined to discuss them so as not to impact negotiations.

When a new cruise terminal will be needed is unclear because no date has been set for the start of construction on the Hanjin terminal.

The authority held back on choosing a design firm for the Hanjin terminal after negotiations between the South Korean shipping company and the longshoremen’s union stalled.

Kulik said relations between Hanjin and the International Longshoremen’s Association have greatly improved since then, and he expect a signed contract or understanding between the two soon.

The $208 million container terminal is slated to open in late 2013.

The authority held back on pursuing the new cruise terminal, Kulik said, because it was in the midst of an international trade slump and it was unclear how the cruise industry would fare in the recession. Trade is recovering and, although the cruise industry has made less money, it has kept its Jacksonville ships at more than 100 percent occupancy.

Carnival, the world’s largest cruise company, had a profit of $175 million on revenue of $3.1 billion in the first quarter, compared with profit of $260 million on revenue of $2.9 billion in the same quarter last year.

A new cruise terminal is also needed to allow larger ships to call on the port because height restrictions caused by the Dames Point Bridge and nearby wires prevent access for about 80 percent of major cruise ships.
The cruise line unveiled its $34 million renovation of its 2,052-passenger cruise ship Fascination this month. The poor economy hasn’t prevented the ship from sailing at more than capacity and carrying nearly 185,500 passengers in fiscal 2009.

The number of passengers has grown by 34 percent since Carnival began sailing out of Jacksonville in 2005. The revenue from the sailings helps the authority pay for port infrastructure maintenance and improvements.

Episode 25 – Carnival Cruise Rate Increase

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:18:53 +0000

The Cruise Guy, Stewart Chiron joins us talking about Carnival Cruise Lines rate increase, a new cruise ship to be home-ported in Tampa, Florida and the noro-virus outbreak on the Celebrity Mercury.

An avid traveler and an award-winning journalist, Ralph Grizzle joins us with a recent article he wrote called “Extracting More Joy from Your Cruise.”

Frequent cruiser Sherry Laskin talks to us about her recent trip aboard the Celebrity Equinox to the Southern Caribbean, hear all about the ship!

David Lee, editor-in-chief of Go Back Packing, discusses spending 20 months traveling around the world and his experiences in the land down under.

James Bandy, a former deckhand for American Cruise Lines chats about his experiences.

Join us next week for our broadcast on Royal Caribbean’s “Oasis of the Seas.”