About this episode

The episode features a review of the Celebrity Solstice and discusses various cruise news topics.

Celebrity Solstice review and this week's cruise news. Steven shares his experience aboard Celebrity Solstice on a 16-night transpacific cruise from Sydney to Honolulu. We discuss the ship's renovation, dining, entertainment, sea days, ports of call in New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, and American Samoa, plus crossing the Equator and International Date Line. We also talk about an onboard power outage and Coast Guard medical evacuation that happened near the end of the voyage. Cruise Radio staff writer Richard Simms covers this week's headlines: • River cruise fire in France • Sun Princess overnight fire scare • Celebration Key expansion • Carnival crew member honored as a hero • Ruby Princess norovirus outbreak • Frank Del Rio's $18 million lawsuit Share your thoughts: doug@cruiseradio.net Sponsor Cruise line protection is designed to help if you can't take your cruise. Third-party travel insurance helps protect you during the trip. Including medical care, delays, and unexpected issues. Compare plans and save up to 30% at TripInsurance.com . About Cruise Radio: Cruise Radio has been delivering cruise news, ship reviews, and money-saving tips weekly since 2009.

People in this episode

Host: Doug Parker

Guest: Steven

Topics covered

• cruise review
• transpacific cruise
• ship renovation
• dining and entertainment
• ports of call
• cruise news
• safety incidents

Keywords

• Celebrity Solstice
• Sydney to Hawaii
• cruise news
• power outage
• medical evacuation
• dining
• entertainment
• ports of call
• norovirus outbreak
• travel insurance

Sponsors

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Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Carnival

Places: Sydney, Hawaii, New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, American Samoa

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