6 Things You Missed About The New Summer Cruises Announced (Royal Caribbean, Celebrity etc)

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i've been digging into the new cruises
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opening up from
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june for us and uk residents and there
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are a bunch of things that i've
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uncovered that you really
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should carefully consider before you
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splash your cash
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by the way if you're new to my channel
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welcome aboard i'm gary bembridge and
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i'm here to help you
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make it easier to find plan and have
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those amazing cruise vacations
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you're dreaming of so with that in mind
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let's
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get going first of all you really need
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to know your options
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there are a bunch of them out there but
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certainly many more cruisers are going
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to come
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along as other lions adapt so really
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think before you rush into booking
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any of these that exist because more are
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going to come now they're a mixture of
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cruises to nowhere and
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port calls based on the region and the
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timing generally speaking
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the later they are the more likely they
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are to have ports they're generally
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time limited and they're running in
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summer mostly from june
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right through to september now by that
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time in september they're hoping that
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they're going to be able to
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scrap these special summer cruises and
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then run the currently advertised
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cruises
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as planned so let's take a look very
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quickly at what is confirmed now
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by the time you watch this i'm pretty
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sure this list will start to be added to
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pretty quickly but let's have a look
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what there is so in the united states so
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people
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in the u.s closest to you are royal
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caribbean adventure of the seas
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seven night cruises from nasa in the
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bahamas obviously celebrity
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millennium they're going to be selling
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out of saint martin
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again seven night cruises crystal or
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based out of nasa or they're also
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picking up passengers
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in bimini and again all of these are
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calling on ports running from june
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really to
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august now in the uk there is a huge
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amount of choice
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heading out of the uk you've got pinot
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cruises on two ships britannia and iona
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princess cruises on regal princess and
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sky princess msc cruisers if you don't
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know
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which ship they're going to have yet
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you've got cunard queen elizabeth you've
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got fred olson with their two newest
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chips you've got viking cruises
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the viking venus and although the start
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dates very they basically run from june
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until september of course in israel of
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course you've also got the royal
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caribbean
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odyssey of the sea so you have a whole
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raft of different options and
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cruises and more to come so really make
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sure you understand
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what your choices are the next thing to
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really is understand who can actually go
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and what you need to have because these
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again differ cruise by cruise and even
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cruise line
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by cruise line it's really important
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because you need to make sure that
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you're going to be able to comply with
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the rules
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and by the date that you're looking to
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book because especially many of these
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require
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that you had to have had your vaccine
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and both doses
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within seven or 14 days depending on the
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cruise line so you need to really
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think through that timeline before you
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actually book now it's really important
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to note that there are almost no options
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at the moment
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that don't involve adults over 18 being
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vaccinated there's
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one key exception so if you cannot
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do not want or don't qualify in time
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you're going to have to largely
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forget summer cruising in fact if you
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aren't able to
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have a vaccine four main approaches that
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are being used so you've got the one
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country only
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completely and entirely vaccinated
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passengers only this is true of the uk
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carnival corporation lines so that's
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pinot cruises princess cruises and
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cunard that are sending out the uk so
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they exclude kids and of course israel
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royal caribbean is the same everyone has
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to be vaccinated the second approach the
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cruise lines are using is where they
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will accept guests from multiple
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countries
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but again vaccinated passengers only and
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that's what crystal cruisers are doing
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so again
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pretty much excludes kids the next
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option the third option is
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again accepting people from multiple
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countries but they're combining
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vaccinated adults and
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children under 18 if they've had a
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negative pcr
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test so royal caribbean and celebrity in
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the caribbean that's the approach that
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they are using
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then you've got another approach which
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is the real outlier which
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is you only taking guests from one
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country you've got to have negative pcr
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testing
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so theoretically it can be adults and
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children and that's in the uk with msc
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cruisers
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but also viking cruisers in the uk are
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doing that so that's a little bit
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though of an outline there are also
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differences on
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which lines are insisting crew will have
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to be vaccinated and it's really based
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on the ability to get that done so in
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the uk
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yeah mse your fred olsen's uh your
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various carnival
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lines they won't have crew vaccinated
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but the caribbean lines the ones
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operating the caribbean
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will do testing is going to be used
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across
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all of these anyway clear have committed
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everyone will be actually tested before
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they get on a cruise
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also important to bear in mind is if
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you're going into any of those caribbean
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islands you're going to need a pcr test
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to
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enter those countries and then they're
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going to have the fast testing process
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before you board
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really important to note that those pcr
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tests are going to be additional costs
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on top of your cruise costs the fast
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tests are going to be included
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the next really big area to understand
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is the protocols
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because these will not be cruising as it
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used to be i've seen many people getting
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really excited about cruising opening
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but paramount it's not going to be as it
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was you need to
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absolutely make sure that you're
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completely happy because things like
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masks are going to be involved and i
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know a lot of people
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don't want to have things like mars and
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cruise line only excursions
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now all of the lines are saying that
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they will actually confirm the final
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final protocols
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around about 30 days before sailing so
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these things could adjust but they've
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also said
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there is going to be the following so
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these are things that they're saying
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they will be first of all
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there's going to be reduced capacity now
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they haven't said at what level around
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other parts of the world is between sort
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of 50
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60 capacity you can have staggered and
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timed
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boarding that's because the whole
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boarding process will take much longer
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with health screenings
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which is the third important point
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there's going to be health screening
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which include those tests i mentioned
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that you have your temperature taken a
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lot
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there's going to be a lot of screening
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before you get on board and actually
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during the cruise
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a mask have to be worn when distancing
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is not possible you can remove them to
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eat and drink for example you sit around
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the pool
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but you are going to wear marks a lot of
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the time there will be no
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self-service dining buffet there will be
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a buffet but it won't be self-serve
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there'll be social distancing and venues
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and it may require you to book
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everything that you do contact tracing
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will be in place
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mostly with wearable devices contact
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tracing is a really important part of
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the whole process
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cruise line only excursions and no free
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exploring
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now it starts to be confirmed what's
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going to happen in the uk
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but when celebrity for example announced
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what they're going to be doing in the
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caribbean they spoke about curated tours
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and this
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is basically what we've seen in other
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places that have opened where
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you can only go on a cruise line
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excursion to kind of keep that
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protective bubble
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to avoid kind of people being exposed on
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either side both in the port and
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on the ship so that is going to be a key
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factor also to watch out for
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that may lift but it is currently part
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of the plan
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another key thing is you will be
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disembarked if you break any of these
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protocols
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another really important thing to know
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is around cabins
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on these cruises you can only cruise in
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a balcony cabin
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and above which has been true of all the
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other cruises that have opened up
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around the world also you can only book
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a guaranteed
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grade you cannot choose your specific
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cabin and there's a couple of things
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going on here first of all
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by not selling inside cabins and ocean
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view they're of course immediately
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reducing capacity on the ship it also
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means if everyone's got a balcony if
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there are any problems people
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are in cabins which have a balcony so
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therefore access
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to fresh air it also means by having a
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guarantee only
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cabin and people not choosing their
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cabins is they can then spread people
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right across the ship so across the
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decks
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and across the full length of the ship
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so people aren't
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clumped together as part of that social
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distancing
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the other aspect which has been
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discussed by some industry
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people that i've spoken to but i haven't
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had finally confirmed but kind of makes
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sense
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is the idea being that they will
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alternate what cabins they use
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cruise by cruise the advantage being of
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course then on turnaround day
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they don't have to do deep cleaning of
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every single cabin
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so they could use one cabin for one
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cruise it's empty for the next cruise
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they use the cabin next door
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and they basically alternate between
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cabins which means they can leave cabins
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to be deep cleaned and basically sort of
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sanitized in between
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cruises another really important thing
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to note is insurance
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including covert cover is going to be
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required now this service a little bit
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based on the two regions of the world in
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the uk the lines have really strict
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requirements
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you could have crew specific insurance
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you have to have two million pound
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evacuation cover
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and covered cover and that's absolutely
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mandatory and will be checked
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once you get to the u.s settings outside
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of the bahamas the problem is that the
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cdc advice is against cruising
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so that will actually negate insurance
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so what's happening is a couple of
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things
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first of all if you're joining any of
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those cruises you're gonna have to buy
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the bahamas health visa and it ranges
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between about forty dollars
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and seventy dollars and it includes
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basically coverage for
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covert issues when you're in the country
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and guests have to
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buy that specific cover that health visa
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but you will get an onboard credit of
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about 50
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to each guest's account to help sort of
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compensate for that
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now if you or your tour party test
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positive on the cruise for covered
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or are actually deemed to be in close
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contact with someone
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who kind of has tested positive what all
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caribbean are doing so celebrity and so
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on
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they get basically going to cover your
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onboard medical treatment
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they also will cover the cost of any
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land-based quarantine which is
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not applicable in the cake because they
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can get you home and then travel to get
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your home for affected guests
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and your travel party so that's the way
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they're getting around the insurance
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issue when you can't get insurance
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because of the cdc ruling
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another key thing to note is there's a
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lot of flexibility built into these
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various fares and trips that's largely
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because if anybody
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contracts covert before the trip they
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obviously don't want people to come
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along they or they find people failing
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the health screen when they're checking
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they don't want to let people they
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suspect
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may be ill onto the ship so they are
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having lots of flexibility
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and refunds if you can't do these trips
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but do check
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again because line by line what they
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should offer you differs
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slightly if you want to sound much
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better some of the restrictions and
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rules that are being put in place
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for cruising as it reopens i put
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together two videos
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in this playlist here which you should
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take a look at
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