hey everybody how you doing it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce well what
a week we've had this week four stories to tell you about in this week's recap
on cruising let's start with our friends at well Norwegian ah the Norwegian epic
cruise ship this was an epic saga the ship left port canaveral last week
Saturday and was supposed to go to st. Thomas was supposed to go to Tortola
supposed to go to two great stir up key it ended up going to San Juan Puerto
Rico because they had engine troubles the second day into a seven day cruise
and when it got here it bashed into the pier and caused a couple of gashes
here's one of them in the side of the ship
what a mess they apparently repaired the engines left port and we're supposed to
go to here here great stir of key didn't make it they cancelled this and chugged
all the way back to Port Canaveral under reduced power all kinds of rumors and
what's going on with the maintenance of the ship what a nightmare it arrived
late in Port Canaveral and the next trip is all delayed it's now only a five-day
cruise instead of a seven-day cruise we'll keep following this one in the
meantime here in Athens Greece the Viking Jupiter was making her maiden
voyage for Viking ocean cruises she was brought in to the port with three
tugboats one of the lines snapped at the back of the ship for one of the tugboats
and the ship drifted off and she ended up striking the pier and caused some
superficial damage thankfully nothing too serious but oh what a what a bit of
a pride lost there on that one on the maiden voyage the Jupiter that all
scuffed up bashing into the pier in Athens they all survived they all move
on it'll be fine now in the meantime over at Royal Caribbean they have some
fun too the navigator of the Seas is in Freeport Bahamas for a drydock they've
now extended this drydock by five extra days this is the ship that ran into some
really rough weather out of Southampton last fall had to get a stabilizer issue
repaired the front stabilizer either snapped offers inoperable the ship took
on water they fixed it they patched it together now they've sailed her for a
few months over to the USA she's in dried up to get this beautiful add-on
put onto the ship plus a whole bunch of other features 115 million dollar renew
now they're in another five days behind and it's gonna run him another probably
15 million more hopefully the stabilizer is one of the things they'll fix we'll
keep you posted but over here at virgin voyages it's all good
virgin voyages the Richard Branson Cruise Line is really shaking up the
cruise industry in a positive way they have come out with all kinds of
announcements first one that has topped the the announcement board is no buffet
on this cruise ship 20 restaurants all included in your fare there's no premium
dining surcharges there's no tipping surcharges there's a basic beverage
package included that includes soda Wi-Fi is included it's all-inclusive it
is going over beautifully with passengers and this week they announced
another piece of news first of all the public can now buy a cruise on this ship
they're now selling four four and five day cruises through the Caribbean and
they've announced the beach club in Bimini Bahamas will be included on
almost all of the sailings and so now the passengers will have a lovely day to
spend at the beach with all the toys all the surroundings all of the service of
Virgin for an entire day this looks absolutely fantastic no nickel and
diming and you get this as an added treat should be a lot of fun what a week
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