Popular Caribbean cruise port takes on Elon Musk, SpaceX

Elon Musk has built himself into one thing between a James Bond villain and an unparalleled titan of industry.

It in point of fact depends on whom you quiz.

He serves as CEO for a complete lot of companies and runs a authorities-effectivity agency created by President Donald Trump. He's with out a doubt one of essentially the most highly efficient of us on this planet, due partly to his wealth and partly thanks to his connection to Trump.

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Musk relishes his new put up and his location in the spotlight. He's also someone that few of us or international locations should lift on, given the hundreds of thousands of followers he instructions from his X social-media platform.

Tremendous Turk, home to the handiest cruise port in the Turks and Caicos, wants Musk, or a minimal of his SpaceX space-tech company, to neat up its mess.

Doug Parker of Cruise News Lately has the beefy memoir as well to news about one more cruise line raising its everyday gratuities.

Tremendous Turk wants SpaceX debris removed

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From Las Vegas, right here is Cruise News Lately with Doug Parker.

Good morning. Here's your cruise news for Friday, February 7.

A favored Caribbean cruise port wants space debris off its seashores.

Locals and tourists in the Turks and Caicos Islands are dealing with surprising fallout from a SpaceX Starship that exploded closing month. [Debris] from the unmanned spacecraft rained down on the islands after the higher stage broke apart in the direction of reentry on January 16.

[Locals] and guests are finding pieces of the wreckage conclude to their houses and in vacationer areas.

SpaceX has told of us no longer to form out the debris, however some are pissed off with the leisurely cleanup response and are doing it anyway.

Closing year, 1.2 million cruise passengers known as to Tremendous Turk.

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Margaritaville at Sea raises everyday gratuities; Disney provides Alaska cruise

And Margaritaville at Sea has elevated its everyday gratuities by 11%.

Mandatory gratuities for staterooms has long gone from $18 to $20 per day, whereas suite guests will now pay $24 everyday. That's up from $22.

Carrier prices for drinks, eating, and spa, smartly, as well they went up, from $18 to $20.

The switch follows an industrywide pattern, with Disney closing month raising gratuities by up to 16% for suite guests. The brand new charges took assemble earlier this month.

And Disney Cruise Line is expanding its itineraries subsequent summer.

Two Disney ships, Disney Magic and Disney Wonder, will trip Alaska cruises from Vancouver for the primary time simultaneously. Disney Dream will debut in Italy and cruise thru the Med.

Disney Fantasy and Disney Settle on will continue their Bahamas and Caribbean sailings from Port Canaveral, whereas the brand new Disney Destiny will leave from Fortress Lauderdale.

And naturally, the Disney High-tail, the megaship launching from Singapore, will trip thru Asia. The highway could be expanding its stops at its deepest islands in the Bahamas.

And a correction from Wednesday's broadcast.

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