everybody it's Bruce here with traveling with Bruce today's date is March the 3rd
2019 oh my how time flies and I've got your weekly cruise update
cruise news for 2019 already we have news coming out of the Bahamas this week
all kinds of it we've got news coming out of Alaska because the season is
about to begin in a couple of months things are happening up here we'll
crumber a couple things here also news about the food on cruise ships Holland
America is shaking things up and this could be monumental we'll talk about
this one also we have news this week about the Royal Caribbean navigator of
the Seas 150 million dollars later she's all different we have news also on the
other side of things Carnival victory the ship was stranded this week without
power we're gonna talk about that and we have the update right here to start
things off about the Bahamas the US State Department has reiterated a
level-two travel advisory in Nassau this is creating great concern in NASA the
governor of NASA is looking to spruce things up here and here are some images
of what the port of Nassau is going to look like in the next couple of years
250 million dollar rebuild outdoor amphitheater movie theater all kinds of
shops and lots of security to reassure cruise ship passengers that coming to
Nassau is not a bad idea the US government like I said level 2 advisory
increased a caution for Americans in NASA because of crime other news couple
from New Jersey they were on a cruise for one week on the allure of the Seas
when the wife found that she was having problems with internal bleeding issues
she has an ulcer of the doctor told her she had to get off the ship in Mexico
her and her husband were forced to take a six-hour cab ride to Cancun Mexico fly
from Cancun Mexico to Mexico City and then they flew from Mexico City back to
New Jersey $3,400 to get home to their own doctor and she quickly was
admitted into hospital had a few medications given to her a few
adjustments and she's fine but they're out the money kind of wonder about
travel insurance here is the Navigator of the Seas she
has been redone 115 million-dollar rebuilt the big feature as all of these
water slides on the back end of the ship all done the longest water slide at sea
eight hundred feet long with all kinds of add-ons the ship is a whole new look
she's going to start a series of four and five day cruises out of Miami to the
Caribbean should be fun here's the Carnival victory she was on a four-day
cruise working her way back from Cozumel had a CE date and her engines conked out
power was not available available at all for hours no air conditioning no water
no food finally after two hours the electronics worked again then they got
the propulsion system back up and she's back in Miami and went on her next
cruise but these ships are twenty years old and she's going in for a 200 million
dollar refurbishment next year can she hang on between now and then is the
question overhaul in America they are shaking it up the main dining room is
where you go for a wonderful meal every night for dinner and it's not uncommon
for a husband and wife to sit down for dinner order each an entree and maybe
order a third entree to split between them as a little treat well you want a
third entree now ten bucks more that's an extra surcharge it's no longer free
this could shake things up across the cruise industry all America insists it's
just a test but I have a feeling that there's no way they can flunk this test
they're gonna have more cash in their cash registers and I think they're going
to keep this policy we'll see how this one goes over with passengers in Juneau
Alaska what a beautiful shot this is Juneau Alaska the first port in the
world to have installed electric power from shore to ship is now looking to
expand the program cruise ships can come here and they can
hook in to shore power which allows them to shut off their engines and not
pollute the air while in port Juneau is looking to expand this to a number of
additional ships so they can get rid of this kind of look right here because on
calm day so where the wind isn't blowing look what goes into the sky and stays
there we'll follow a story and all the others as we go forward
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