8 Cruise Cabins You Should Avoid When Cruising Resumes

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you're about to discover eight cruise
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cabins to avoid in a post cruising
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shutdown world
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruising tips for travelers as we talk
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about and think about heading back
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cruising after the shutdown I want to
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share with you some thoughts around
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cabin choice and eight types of cabins
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to avoid I think that cabin choice
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moving forward increasing is going to
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become more important than ever before
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in the run-up to the shutdown there were
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lots of issues around the type of cabin
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the people chose when ships
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unfortunately headed into a quarantine
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situation so a lot of people found
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themselves stuck in very small cabins
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for a period of time and they decided
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actually that was a really terrible
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thing to do they didn't really enjoy
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that because it's very limiting or they
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had an inside cabin and they're really
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worried about the fact they couldn't
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have access to fresh air and basically
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scenery and things to look at so I think
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the choice of cabin is going to become
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more and more important partly because
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people may want to disallow their fears
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but also I think the way that we think
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about our space may change so it's drew
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the whole lock down through the whole
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social distancing that's been going on I
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think people's sense of personal space
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has become slightly different so
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actually as you get out cruising where
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traditionally you might have said
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actually I'm comfortable with an inside
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cabin an oceanview cabin doesn't going
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to use the public spaces tell not much
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more you might find when you head back
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cruising you actually want more of your
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own personal space with more space
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generally and perhaps access to some
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outside areas so I want to took at eight
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types of cabins that I think you should
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avoid for sorts of reasons in the post
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shutdown cruising world one thing that's
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important to note is there are good
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caverns and bad cabins no matter which
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grade of cabins you cruising so when you
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in a suite a balcony cabin an ocean view
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cabin or inside cabin there are good and
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bad in both so these a cams to avoid
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cover all of those categories starting
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with this one
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my first trip links to what I was
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talking about I think moving forwards
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you should avoid really small cabins
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particulars you start booking moving
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forwards without really knowing how
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you're gonna feel about space you might
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find actually you want more space so you
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might want to think for example avoiding
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some of the big mega ships where there
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have really small cabins on the basis of
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people going to be out and about much
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more so actually look much more moving
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forwards at the size of the cabin not
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just because of course the risk of being
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quarantined but you might find you just
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want more
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space and you are actually using your
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cabin for more than just getting changed
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and sleeping which a lot of people did
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before my second key tip is around
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having a view and an outside space and
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again this links to what I was saying
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before one of the things I think you
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should think about avoiding is cameras
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that have no view and have no outside
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space because they gonna think you're
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gonna find that the cabin plays a
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different role - it did in the past and
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again party just to reassure you and
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perhaps your partner that you're
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traveling with you might find actually
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knowing that you are gonna have some
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views to look at you're gonna have the
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ability to go and enjoy fresh air could
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be a big sell particularly trying to
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encourage people to go back cruising
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with you
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I do think avoiding cabins which have no
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view and no outside space is something
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to definitely think about in a post
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shutdown cruising world the third area
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is true of all types of cruising
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weathers before or after the shutdown
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this is to avoid cabins which are prone
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to getting a lot of noise this I think
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is a really important thing to do
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particularly head out cruising you want
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your cruising when you go about crazy to
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be at a phenomenal experience and you
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don't want to find that you've built in
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cabin joists which has noise the common
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of air is to look at a couple areas to
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focus on when you're choosing a cabin
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first of all make sure that you avoid
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areas that are in public areas so
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they're very close to where there's lots
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of facilities or action basically going
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with lots of people moving - and
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throwing secondly also make sure that
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you avoid big noise hot spots and that
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includes things like the theater the
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nightclub bars or withers live music
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you'll find particularly at night that
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becomes a real big issue between with
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their late night venues and all the
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basin always just travel through the
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hull of the ship and you know people
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who've been stuck in those areas are the
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ones that I have had the most comments
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about having something that's really
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kind of messed up and ruined their
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cruise so avoid those sort of nightclub
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theater spaces it's also a good idea to
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avoid being directly under the pool deck
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or under the promenade deck but it'll if
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it's one of those porn addicts that go
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all the way around the reason for that
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is you'll often find the scraping of
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chairs again that noise travels right
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the way through the hull and the thought
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of people I think on the cruises I've
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been on the way I've found actually the
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most kind of annoying is
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underneath the pool deck you know early
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in the morning you started getting woken
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up by the scraping of chairs as they
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reset and moving around during the day
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between this pool parties out of the
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night you can have lots of thumping and
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whatever so it does kind of mean if you
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try to sleep in in the morning you get
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disturbed or perhaps if you want to have
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an early night for whatever reason
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you've got to be gay the next day so
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those areas that I would also always try
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and avoid myself kitchens and dining
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rooms and restaurants are another good
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place to avoid a lot of people I know
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have had real problems when they've been
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either under or below the kitchen these
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can often be 24-hour operations and lots
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of clanging and banging and again a
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noise can travel through the same is
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true to a lesser degree of restaurants
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although if there is for example the
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buffet restaurant which has more solid
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floors the scraping of chairs can kind
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of break through and be quite disruptive
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because of course you've got morning's
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afternoons evenings often quite late
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into the night and it could be quite a
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disturbing thing a lot of people have
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said they're being coached to kids clubs
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is another no-no because you have lots
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of coming and going screaming running up
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and down of corridors so that's another
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one to consider try and keep yourself
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away from the kids clubs another one
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which I've had experience of and a lot
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of people have really driven them crazy
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it's being near the laundry the guest
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laundry the reason for that is first of
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all it's often people coming and going
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door slamming but actually those
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machines can be pretty noisy so if
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you're on one of the cabins that are
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backing onto that you often find early
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in the morning to late at night you have
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a lot of disturbance from the laundry so
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that's a good one
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to watch out for another thing to
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consider is trying to avoid being near
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where the anchor is and it depends a
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little bit on the type of cruise you're
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on
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often the anchor is right forward in the
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ship and particularly if you've got a
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theory where you're doing lots of
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tendering so where the ship is mooring
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out and you're tendering in you can
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often get work working up with the noise
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of the anchor being weighed down to
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basically hold the ship where it needs
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to be I've been on a couple of cruises
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where they've actually had all of the
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crew actually in the forward part of the
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ship and a lot of them have complained
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about how crazy the noise that the
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anchor drives them the critical thing to
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do if you're looking at how do you do
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you avoid these space and what people
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are saying how do I avoid them I have a
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very simple
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rule when I'm looking and choosing a
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cabin I look for cabins which are
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surrounded on all sides by cabin so
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above below either side and opposite
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obviously if you've got about the cabin
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you what's outside there is the sea but
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really important if you get a cab which
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is surrounded on all sides you're likely
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to avoid those spaces because one of the
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other potential noise areas is where one
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of the crews access areas so if you're
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not seeing any cabins opposite you on
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the deck plan there's a chance that that
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is actually where a crew are coming and
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going and that can be quite noisy as
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well so follow that rule cabins on all
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sides that's the biggest trick for
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finding a cabin which is like it's gonna
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protect you from noise my fourth tip
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around cabins to avoid is following on
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from the previous one and that's to
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avoid interconnecting cabins the cabins
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that are connected by a doorknob via
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sleeve it's traveling with friends and
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family and you want to be connected
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that's a whole different story but I've
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had some really bad experiences where
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I've either had real noisy people or
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we've had party people or you've had
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really loud televisions early in the
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morning or late at night because that
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noise does carry through quite a lot
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other people are concerned about into
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connecting doors more from a security
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perspective because although they lock
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then just feel unsafe having a door
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between another cabin so avoid
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interconnecting doors again on the deck
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plans you can normally find those quite
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easily and they're normally quite well
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flagged up because some people do
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obviously want into connected cabins
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that for me is one of the big things
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that I focus on is avoiding those having
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had some bad experiences the fifth area
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to avoid is cameras that are prone to
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motion so this is probably a
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particularly a good one if you worry
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about motion sickness oh you're going on
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eternity where you know the Seas could
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be kind of rough generally speaking the
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more central you are on the ship and
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they lower down that is where you're
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going to have the least amount of motion
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ironically some of the best cabins or
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the most expensive cabins ownership are
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actually in some of the worst areas for
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this the big glitzy suites are often
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right at the very top of the ship
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because you have this big commanding
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view or they're right at the very back
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of the ship but actually those are the
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parts which have the most amount of
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movement and I was actually once at a
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dinner with a cruise ship designer and
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he was saying he finds a very ironic
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that he's asked to design and put Suites
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in these spaces because actually those
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are some of the worst spots for motion
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and particular for people worried about
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motion sickness I've been on a cruise
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where we had met some people who were
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friends on the on the cruise and they
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had one of the best cabins which were
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right at the back of the ship and we
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were going through a really stormy area
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and they had a little cocktail party and
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was almost impossible to stand up we
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didn't realize it was that rough because
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we were mid ships and hadn't even
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realized that the sea was quite that
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rough so if you are concerned about
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motion avoid being it at the back of the
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ship avoid being at the front of the
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ship it would be close to the middle and
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as low down as suits you the next type
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of cabins to avoid are those that have
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privacy issues now these tend to be a
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little bit harder to spot so you might
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have to rely on reviews or the sort of
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inside knowledge from friends family or
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of course your cruise agent there's a
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couple of things to watch out for so on
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some of those big mega ships through
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like a little Caribbean mega ship so
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they're the big sort of walkway through
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the middle you know go cabins on either
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side which then face into the central
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atrium at the Central Park area you can
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have some privacy issues there with
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people being able to look across and
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again it depends a little bit on the
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cabins ones low down
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tend to be the ones where you kind of
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have to keep your curtains more closed
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and I've had people that felt they needs
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to keep the curtains closed a lot
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because they were low down their father
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being looked into another one which is I
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want to watch out for if you're on a
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princess ship those big ships that have
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the walkway the Skywalk which is the
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glass floor they look straight down into
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your cabin underneath the pool deck
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there you can look straight into the
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cabin and then even on the Carnival
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dream class ships on the hot tub area
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but in the evening people can look
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straight down into a cabin so as you can
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see these are much harder to figure out
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but do you have a look perhaps on some
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of the review sites that cruise critic
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for example with a will review different
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cabins and just check or ask someone
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who's be honest ship before or your
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agent about does this have any chances
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of really being overlooked the people I
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look into my cabin my next step is
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actually if you want to get a better
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cabin is avoid a guaranteed fair cabin
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and go for a favor you choose your cabin
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a lot of people have historically
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certainly before the shutdown
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like the idea of booking a guaranteed
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cabin what that means is you booked an
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inside or an ocean view or a balcony or
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a sweet but you don't choose a cabin at
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a little bit cheaper and then the cruise
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line allocates you the cabin what you
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need to bear in mind is it's most likely
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that you're gonna get the cabins that
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are the worst of that category
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the reason being the people in the know
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who've gone in and chosen their cabin
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who have chosen the best cabins and you
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then allocate the ones that are left
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over or you give them ones that the
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cruise line considers to be perfectly
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fine cabins but may not suit you so I
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actually think one of the cabins to
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avoid are guaranteed cabins it's much
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better to choose your own cabin so you
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can choose where it is what deck it's on
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whether it's midships forwards where you
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basically you choose all the kind of
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aspects and things that you want about
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the cabin to avoid all the previous
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issues noise or being overlooked or
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privacy or whatever so I would say avoid
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guaranteed fare cabins my next tip is
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sort of link to that is one of the
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things that you're asked when you book
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as you're asked if you want to go for an
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auto upgrade
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I also recommend those are cabins to
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avoid the issue with an auto upgrade is
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you have no say if your upgrades you
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tick the box to agree to more to upgrade
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and the cruise line will just upgrade
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you and they decide what cabin you're in
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so again you have no say so if you've
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particularly focused on choosing a great
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cabin at your grade whether it's inside
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ocean view balcony whatever it is and
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you've chosen a cabin that's taken to
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count with all particular light you know
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it's the right size it's got outside
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space whatever it is and they upgrade
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you you may hate the cabin so in ibook I
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don't go for guaranteed fare I choose my
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cabin and then I refuse the auto upgrade
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so I make sure that I've got a cabin
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that I am completely happy with so I
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reckon avoid auto upgrades because you
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have no say on it and you might move
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from a great cabin that you've chosen to
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one that you don't like those are my
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thoughts on the a types of cabins to
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avoid now I have two very simple tips
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again to reiterate to find the right
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cabin first of all don't go for a
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guaranteed fair cabin go for a favor you
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can choose your cabin and don't take the
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auto upgrade and then secondly look for
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a cabin which is surrounded on all sides
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by other cabins that way you pretty much
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are going to protect yourself against
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all those kind of downsides that I've
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spoken about so those are the two little
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tips little quick tips of a way of
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double-checking when you choose a cabin
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I have loads more tips and advice about
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crew
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