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This week health coach Nicole La Placa joins on on staying healthy while cruising and what you can do to avoid gaining those extra pounds. Friend and Rome tour guide Teressa stops by as well. In Cruise News, Cruise Guy gives us the latest on: Carnival Cruise Lines re-signs another year in Jacksonville, Florida Bermuda [...]
We talk to Senior Cruise Director of Carnival Cruise Lines, John Heald, about all the Mediterranean cruise ports that Carnival Breeze visits. Great advice from Nancy Schretter from The Family Travel Network as well as travel writer and former cruise industry executive, Art Sbarsky. You can find all our Carnival Breeze coverage here. PLAY IN [...]
When I woke up this morning we were pulling into Palma de Mallorca, Spain. I didn’t opt for an excursion on this island but chose to walk it by foot. There was a five euro shuttle bus available into downtown if you didn’t want to walk. The walk into town takes about thirty minutes and [...]
Norwegian Cruise Line announced today that it has engaged celebrity chef and Food Network star Geoffrey Zakarian to create and oversee a seafood concept to open May 2013 on the line’s newest ship, Norwegian Breakaway. The restaurant, Ocean Blue by Geoffrey Zakarian, is envisioned as a luxury seafood dining experience, utilizing all of the ingredients [...]
One of the cool parts about doing Cruise Radio is being able to talk to a lot of different people and delve into their position on-board. Today we started out with John Heald’s assistant Calvin, we did a video interview with him in the night club inside one of the cages (yes, the night [...]
This week we are joined by Mike Watts, VP of Marine Development with Cochran Marine. Mike talks to us about shore-side power and how it’s making cruise ports greener, one port at a time. TripInsurance.com is giving away $5,000 for a vacation of your choice — no strings attached. Enter to win here! Listener James [...]
After sorting through the more than 57,000 cruise vacation photos that were submitted to the Princess Cruises “1,000 Memories at Sea” photo contest, judges have chosen an image of the soaring columns of Ephesus submitted by Christine Svircev of Illinois as the grand prize winner. The winning photo depicts the grandeur of the ruins of [...]
Holland America Line was the recipient of the 2012 Rear Admiral William M. Benkert Environmental Protection Award from the U.S. Coast Guard in recognition of the line’s environmental leadership and for successfully achieving several environmental objectives established by the company that exceed standard regulation. The William M. Benkert Award is the premier marine environmental protection [...]
2011 was a record year for the cruise port of New Orleans, seeing 736,908 cruise passengers, beating the previous record set in 2004 of 734,643 passengers. The direct local economic impact was $132.1-million or $937,000 per cruise ship, creating 3,000 jobs. “New Orleans is a hugely popular cruise port and cruise lines are taking notice [...]
Grenada’s Underwater Sculpture Park and the statues created by Jason deCaires Taylor were featured in a special edition National Geographic magazine entitled “Wonders of the World – Earth’s most awesome places.” Compiling photographs in the categories of air, earth and sea, Grenada’s underwater statues are in good company appearing amongst household names such as the [...]
Maritime attorney Jim Walker joins us to talk about the Carnival Triumph that got detained in Galveston, Texas over the weekend by the feds. Travel writer Chris Owen weighs in on the consumer side of this weekend’s debacle. Cruise Guy is giving us the latest cruise news on the Disney Fantasy preview cruise, fire aboard [...]
Carnival Cruise Lines announced today that Carnival Victory will leave San Juan, Puerto Rico, effective February 2013, to reposition to Miami, while Carnival Valor leaves Miami and heads to San Juan. Also announced, Carnival Destiny will move to the European market spring 2013. Here’s the scoop: Carnival Victory will head to Miami offering guests four and [...]
MS-NBC’s travel guru Chris Elliott explains his latest article Revenge of the hotel clerks: 5 things they’ll do to difficult guests. Johnny Jet, the world traveler travels over 150,000 miles a year. Find out how he went being afraid to fly to making a living out of it. A dynamic guy. Stewart Chiron The Cruise [...]
If you missed our write up in the Florida Times Union, we’d love for you to check it. Andy Garnett, CEO of of Special Needs at Sea chats with us about their convenient services for providing mobility assistance at sea. Rene Klusek, a listener of Cruise Radio chats with us about her July 4th cruise [...]
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