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what are the nine things you can no
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longer do on a cruise
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I'm Gary beverage and this is another of
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my tips for Travis I've been on over 66
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cruisers and a time pack all the
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learning that I've got from all of those
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cruises into every single video I make
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about cruising so one of the things you
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used to be able to do in a cruise that
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you can no longer first of all you can
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no longer smoke or vape in your cabin
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around the ship in the dining room and
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even on your balcony way back in the
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good old days you're able to smoke
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everywhere on the ship and then slowly
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maturity that has become less and less
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less until pretty much every single
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cruise ship that I'm aware of
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you're not even allowed to smoke or vape
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on your balcony any longer they have
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very specific areas on the ship and
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increasingly fewer and fewer parts of
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the ship we can actually smoke or they
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and almost cruise ships the rules for
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vaping is the same as the rules for
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actual cigarette smoking some ships will
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also have very specific smoking rooms or
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bars so for example on Princess they
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have Churchill's club and on some cruise
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lines they still have smoking either on
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some nights or on all nights in the
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casino or the vet slowly being phased
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out so certainly as a smoke it's a real
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challenge and a really good friend of
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ours who's the smoker is really
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questioning going cruising because they
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are finding a really restrictive on
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where they can smoke secondly with the
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clamp down and increase in security you
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no longer able to on pretty much every
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single Cruise Line bring guests on board
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in the grand old days of the liners
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people would come on board with their
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friends and family have a look at the
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cabin they have a wonder other ship and
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they'll be announcement made and people
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then leave the ship before itself
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nowadays it's almost impossible to get
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our ship even if you go on a ship tour
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so for example I go on various tours on
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ships and it's quite a big deal you have
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to send your passport details in advance
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it's really strictly controlled so
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having friends and families and guests
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on board is pretty much now impossible
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on any single Cruise Line in the good
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old days you could bring friends on
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board in a Portugal perhaps bring them
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on board for lunch to have a grand
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this is no longer possible the third
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thing that you can no longer do on a
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cruise and one that a real pity is have
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the big streamer sail away even as
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recently as the 70s and into the 80s
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when you sell the way you were given
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streamers and you could throw them and
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if you go back and look at some of the
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old classic liner photographs you'll see
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as they sail away throwing streamers
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over the side of the ship was a really
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big part of the cruising tradition of
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course as there's much more awareness
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around the environment things like
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throwing streamers over the side of the
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was seen it has a really bad thing so
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all that has stopped so the big
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streamers sail away has gone the fourth
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one is really linked to that and you are
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no longer able to throw anything
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overboard and it's one of things that
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you will hear in the safety briefing and
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the Welcome briefing is you cannot throw
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anything overboard not being able to
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throw things overboard has meant that
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some traditions like the message in the
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bottle have also disappeared so used to
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be a relatively popular activity where
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people would get bottles that put the
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name and address little message in and
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it throw them overboard and hope that
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the currents will take them somewhere
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and they would hear from people throwing
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things into the ocean is really frowned
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upon which leads on to the next thing
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which is they used to actually be very
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sports and activities that you would do
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in a cruise ship which did involve you
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hitting things overboard so they used to
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practice golf for example putting into
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the sea some ships used to have clay
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pigeon shooting needs to be a whole set
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of games that you would play which
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involve hitting things off the ship into
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the ocean very interesting recent
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development on things you can no longer
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do on certain cruise lines is shake
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hands so for example the cruise lines or
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perhaps the individual captains are
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asking that you do not shake hands and
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the crew themselves will refuse to shake
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hands so some of them might do a fist
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bump or some of them basically a nod and
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the reason for that is one of the
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easiest ways to spread the norovirus is
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through touch so you touched you end up
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touch your mouth and you ingest it so a
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lot of the cruise lines are moving
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towards not shaking hands and
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encouraging you as passengers not to
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so certainly shaking hands
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may increasingly become something that
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you just don't do on a cruise anymore
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visiting the bridge and an open bridge
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used to be a really common part of
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cruising so it was very easy to get
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access to the bridge some cruise lines
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will not have any access to the bridge
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so there are no bridge tours some cruise
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lines will allow access to the bridge in
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a very controlled manner and normally
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through a paid activities so they will
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run behind the scene tours which will
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include a short visit to the bridge so
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very few people actually get onto the
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bridge at all and then some will only
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have very selected guests which they
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might invite so people who perhaps been
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cruising for a very long time
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perhaps a VIP now on some of the smaller
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cruise lines or perhaps you've got a
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river cruise line they do still have an
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open bridge policy where you're able to
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go in pretty easily and frequently so
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get me access to the bridge and be able
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to visit the bridge and tour the bridge
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is increasingly becoming something that
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you used to be able to do very easy on a
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cruise and becoming less and less easy
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to do I think one of the most
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interesting things that you can't do on
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a cruise that you used to be able to do
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is completely switch off up at all not
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even that long ago Wi-Fi connectivity
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was pretty difficult and very very
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expensive so you if you went on a cruise
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particularly lots of sea days you're
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able to really disconnect and switch off
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however really driven by a demand
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particularly of younger cruisers and
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people just be more connected the cruise
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lines are constantly improving and
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increasing the speed the access and the
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price of being connected on Wi-Fi and
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it's now cut easy on many cruise lines
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to be connected completely unlimited
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Wi-Fi for relatively reasonable amounts
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of money and more and more cruise lines
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fertility of the premium in are also
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including Wi-Fi within the fare so you
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can be connected all the time within
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your fare not that long ago you're able
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to just switch off you switch your phone
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off and you are going to get emails you
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aren't going to be connected and you
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really could switch off on a cruise so
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disconnecting is something you used to
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be able to do on a cruise much less so
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now you also used to be able to
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socialize with the crew much more there
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was much more mingling and parties
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interaction between the crew and the
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passengers this is almost forbidden
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nowadays so there will be certain
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opportunities to socialize of the crew
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some of the senior crew might invite you
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or host tables on some of the cruises
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the cruise lines are becoming more and
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more strict on those interactions with
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the crew so if you go back and look at
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the old lino days you'll find there's
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lots of cocktail parties there's more
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mixing and socializing between the crew
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the cruise lines have much stricter will
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serve example if you strike up a
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friendship with perhaps the gym
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instructor or other people even meeting
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on land is frowned on so for example we
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became very friendly when we're on a big
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stretch of a world cruise with some of
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the people in the spa and we said why
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don't we meet to perhaps go out and do
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some stuff on land and they were like we
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currently do that because the rules
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really say that we can't fraternize and
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mix with passengers and I guess that
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sort of makes sense but certainly you
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used to be able to mix with the crew
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much more now it is kept much more at
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arm's length if you can think of
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anything else that you used to be able
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to do on a cruise but can no longer do
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on appu's I'd love to hear what those
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are anything that I've missed why don't
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watch many more of my tips of travels
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videos they're packed full of advice and
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tips to help you make the most of your
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precious travel time and money on land
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on sea and on the rivers of the world
