it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce Scottish news update for November
29th 2018 we start things off with Princess Cruise Line's they announced
today that they're going to increase capacity for passengers in Australia by
40% they're adding the Regal Princess cruise ship to their fleet in Australia
for the twenty two thousand 2021 season that would be December to April 2022
april 2021 the ship of course is all the features absolutely gorgeous interiors
wonderful restaurants all the amenities of very popular liner this is going to
make Australia's princess's second largest market for cruising only behind
the USA they have more passengers taking cruises in Australia then even in Alaska
quite surprising but not surprising when you see this kind of a ship being
offered to the passengers they love it they're having a great time down there
of course between December and April you're talking the dead of summer for
Australia nice way to go second piece of news I have for you today is concerning
halt in America halt America has received her new ship the noise Statten
damn from the shipbuilders in Italy I always butcher the name but I'll give it
a try I think it's Finch in tea a tea or fin Kent Yeti shipbuilders you folks
will send me messages telling me how to play it properly but few months ago she
was still under construction she's all done now the ship is ninety nine
thousand five hundred gross tons she's three hundred meters long she'll held
twenty-six hundred and sixty passengers it's the second pinnacle class ship
after the Corning's dam and there'll be a third ship just like her delivered in
2021 she's heading to Miami for the winter season she'll sail the Caribbean
and as all hall in America ships go five-star luxury first-class everything
the main dining room is fantastic excellent meals spa area right here
absolutely wonderful very relaxing passengers come here on a daily basis
main dining room here it is beautiful five-star service and dining
people come back again and again to halt in America there's a reason why this
cruise line is adding cruise ships they are popular and they have a strong loyal
following pretty nice looking ship and like I said it's on her way to Miami now
and she'll be sailing later in December and January 2019 throughout the
Caribbean absolutely wonderful the third story I have is a bit of a sad
story it's about an Arizona couple that had booked an Alaska cruise on Norwegian
Cruise Line or September of this past year a couple months ago they got to the
airport at Sky Harbor in Phoenix hoping to fly out the same day that the cruise
was taking place and there was an emergency shutdown of the airport there
was a car parked in an unauthorized area no one claimed it they brought the SWAT
team in they shut the everything down and their flight to Seattle was
cancelled they could make no other arrangements to get the Seattle and so
they went home they called the cruise line they told him what happened and the
cruise line said sorry to hear this it's a tragic case do you have travel
insurance the couple said no we don't and the car the cruise line said well
we're sorry to because you're $4,000 that you've paid for the cruise is lost
there's no way a cruise line can rent the cabin to someone else the same day
of departure it's impossible and so the cabin went empty and the couple couldn't
go they lost their money and it's a sad story goes to show you buy travel
insurance or travel the day before your cruise never fly on the day of your
cruise you're risking this kind of a thing from happening to you join me
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