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VIDEO On Thursday, the Steve Kane Radio Show (WWNN 1470 AM) co-host Brian Craig spoke to Ian the Cruise Guy about the latest updates for the Trump 2020 Victory Cruise. As you can hear, in addition to the shipboard group activities, live radio broadcasts are planned while out at sea. Bottom line: The cruise is still scheduled to depart from Port Everglades on December 6 for the Eastern Caribbean. For those worried about the current situation, it is working in your favor with drastically reduced cruise rates as Ian can tell you.

The Coral Princess cruise ship with 12 COVID-19 cases on board plans to dock at Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday. But according to Broward County Mayor Dale Holness, there is not yet a plan in place for the ship’s arrival to Port Everglades Princess Cruises, owned by Carnival Corporation, said in a statement Thursday that seven passengers and five crew members tested positive after the ship dropped off samples in Barbados on March 31. The ship has been sailing toward Florida since Argentina permitted only Argentine citizens to disembark in Buenos Aires on March 19. There are 1,898...

A Holland America cruise ship with sick passengers and its sister ship will be allowed to dock in Florida, sources tell NBC News. It was expected that the Broward County Commission in Fort Lauderdale would vote on whether to allow the Zaandam and Rotterdam ships to dock, but sources say a deal has been reached and that officials are finalizing details.

As the beleaguered Zaandam and Rotterdam cruise ships steam toward Port Everglades, more than 1,200 passengers on board still don’t know what will happen to them when they arrive early Thursday. Both ships are on the Port Everglades docking schedule for Thursday at 1 p.m. and 1:30 p.m. Broward Health confirmed to the Miami Herald that “critically ill” patients will be transferred to the hospital system. DeSantis alluded to a third ship on its way to Florida, the Coral Princess, which is expected to arrive to Port Everglades Saturday with flu-like cases on board. All 1,024 passengers are confined to...

HELSINKI, Oct. 29 (Xinhua) -- The world's largest cruise ship "Allure of the Seas," built in Finnish Turku Shipyard, left Turku on Friday and proceeded directly to Florida Fort Lauderdale of the United States. The construction of cruise ship "Allure of the Seas" was completed and handed over to Royal Caribbean International on Oct. 28. The cruise ship will be serving its first cruise trip in December 2010. The "Allure of the Seas" is an architectural fantasy on the sea. It is 361-meters long, 66-meters wide, 72-meters high above the water, and its gross tonnage is up to 225,000 tons....