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What are the 8 best things you can do on Norwegian Encore cruise ship for free, as they are included within your cruise fare? Norwegian Encore launched in November 2019 and, like the rest of the Norwegian Cruise Line fleet, has lots of choice and facilities. However, many of these do costs a fee above your cruise fare to use, including some restaurants, activities and facilities. So, I reveal what the very best things you can do on board Norwegian Encore that you do not have to pay extra to do. Some, I hope will surprise and please you!
Note: I travelled as a guest of the cruise line before making this video on a short shakedown cruise before the ship went to fare-paying passenger service
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what are the eight things you can do
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completely for free
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onboard Norwegian uncle I'm Gary
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Bainbridge this is another of my tips
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for travelers Norwegian cruises and
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encore offer you huge amounts of choice
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on their cruises but not everything is
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for free so I want to talk about eight
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incredible things that you can do
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without paying any extra money above
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your cruise fare starting with this one
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you can go and see a Broadway production
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shows of incredibly high quality on
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Norwegian encore they have the multi
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award-winning show which one Toni's and
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also won awards in the London West End
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kinky boots it's a full 90-minute
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production and it is really top
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top-notch the other phenomenal
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production which you can see for free is
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called the choir of man I was very
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skeptical about the show went in had a
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great time incredible talent phenomenal
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voices reimagining the songs that we all
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know lots of contemporary songs a really
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beautiful story so those are all
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included within your fare they're
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completely and utterly free to go to and
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I definitely strongly recommend you go
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and see the big production shows the
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second thing is there is a huge amount
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of live music around the ship that again
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is all included within your fare the
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first of those and one of those popular
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is in the cavern club this is recreating
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the Liverpool club where the Beatles
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were founded and there's a Beatles
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tribute band that play in here twice a
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night and they cover all the greatest
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hits from different phases during their
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career it's hugely popular and really
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good fun I'm not a big Beatles fan but
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had a great time in there with this band
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dotted around the ship there's lots of
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other live music throughout the evening
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and the one somebody check out are in
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the district brew house they have a
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singer pianist who does sing alongs in
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the sugar cane mojito bar they have
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Latin music but a dancing and then you
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have a house band entertaining in the
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different lounges around the ship and in
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the main atrium the actual music is
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completely free if you would have a
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drink while you watch it you pay for
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your drinks but the live music
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completely free and included you could
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also then
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for free go and have a great evening of
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comedies so in the social club they have
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a comedian on various times during the
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night and then the late evening that
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becomes the night club so you can laugh
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your head off and then dance the night
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away until really late again if you want
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something to drink you pay for that but
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the actual entertainment the deejay and
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the comedy completely free access to
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pretty much all the facilities onboard
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is included there are a couple of
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exceptions but one of the things that is
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included that is phenomenal is the water
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parks as two water box one which is for
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basically adults and people of all ages
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and then as a kids aqua park in the
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adults park you have two multi storey
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high thrill rides the first of which is
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called the aqua racer these are tandem
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water slides and then you have ocean
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loops which extend right out over the
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side of the ship
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you wash over the side of the ship and
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you go through a double loop down on the
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pool deck you have the kids aqua area
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where there's lots of cascading water
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and lots of fun for the kids again of
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course the use of the pools is all
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included within the fair but the
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waterpark 100% included the fifth thing
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that you can do for free is go and watch
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the go kart this Speedway if you want to
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take part in the go kart you do have to
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pay for that but you can go and watch
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the thrills and perhaps the spills up on
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the two-level go-kart race track the
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Encore Speedway it's larger than the
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ones on the other ships of a similar
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size there's a great viewing area right
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in the middle of the track and it really
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is a huge amount of fun if you want to
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go on the go-karts you do pay it's at
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the time recording it was 995 for one
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circuit you can also buy a day pass or a
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entire cruise long pass which gives you
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unlimited rides so a day pass was 2995
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per person and it was just under $200
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for a full weekly pass if you're into
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laser tag there is an open-air course
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which is the lost city of Atlantis and
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you do have to pay to take part in that
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again it's around about 995 per person
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for a game and you can buy weekly and
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day passes to play laser
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there's no way that you can actually
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watch that particular activity you can
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also head down to Galaxy pavilion and
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watch people on the simulator is a sort
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of multi-dimensional 4d right so people
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are wearing the virtual reality goggles
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you can go and watch people take part in
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these various activities if you do want
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to go on any of the rise that does in
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cone extra-cost we can slowly go down
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and have a look at everyone making fools
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of themselves and sometimes on those
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particular rides also there is a video
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arcade which again is a paper play this
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is a great space and there's lots of
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things to do here but again you can
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watch people playing but you can't take
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part without paying so the critical
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thing to do in terms of all those
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activities which I would strongly
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recommend you do is go and watch the
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Speedway on encore and the various races
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it's really good fun the good news is
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that for free either
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in other words included within your fare
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you can eat for 24 hours of the day now
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there's a couple of key dining options
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that are included within your fare so
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you have three main dining rooms which
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are called taste savor and the Manhattan
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room they all have the same menu so it
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really depends on which of the Dacor all
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the venues you prefer breakfast lunch or
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dinner and these are very beautiful
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rooms and you can go in there and have
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full multi-course meals the other
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restaurant which is included within your
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fare is the Garden Cafe which is the
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buffet restaurant I really like this as
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a buffet restaurant they had all sorts
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of different stations serve example at
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lunchtime you could have a stir fries
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you could have a pasta station there
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would be a pizza station to be a burger
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station and again at breakfast you'd
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have all sorts of different types of
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stations they have lots of desserts and
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you can have huge amounts of food up
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there in the garden Kevin that it tends
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to be open for breakfast lunch and
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dinner you'll normally find that some
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parts of the day you can go up and get
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some free teas and coffees juices and
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various snacks all the speciality
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restaurants you do have to pay extra to
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go to and there are a lot of them
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however there is one of the speciality
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restaurants that is included within your
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fare and that's the local the local has
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comfort food so you've got hamburgers
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hot dogs fish and chips and this is a
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great space to go it's open 24 hours a
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day you can have comfort food again you
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pay if you have a drink so you don't
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have to pay for your drinks and it's a
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really great location and you can look
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down onto the main atrium a great
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meeting point but that is all included
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within your faith everything else there
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is some charges so for example on room
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service
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you do pay a service fee which is the
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timer recording was seven dollars 95 per
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order if you want to go to any of the
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especially to restaurants of which there
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are at least nine of them or you want to
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go to any of the other food and beverage
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outlets like the Starbucks or the bake
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shop or the ice cream shop you do pay to
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go to those so the free things are your
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main dining rooms of buffet and the
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local the next one is great
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particularly for parents or
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multi-generational families traveling
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together is you can leave the kids to
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play all day be looked after all day and
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that's all included within the fit so
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it's free they have three phenomenal
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kids clubs and these really are huge big
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spaces and they can cope with hundreds
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of kids in the peak season so for
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example at the really peak time like
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Thanksgiving they could have literally
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almost a thousand kids being looked
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after by these various kids clubs so the
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key ones that you need to know about our
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first of all Guppies now Guppies is a
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largely unsupervised space for very
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young toddlers where parents can go and
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play with their toddlers and there's all
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sorts of things to do there the next one
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which is one of the most important ones
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of all and the most popular ones of all
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and the biggest of all is called the
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Splash Academy it's got nothing to do
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with waters just a name this is where
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kids from 3 up till 12 will be able to
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go and play and they're divided into
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different age groups then you have
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entourage which is for the teenagers so
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that's from 13 up until 17 that's all
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included within the fair and your kids
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can spend all day there the only thing
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you would pay for the main kids club the
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splash academy that closes at lunchtime
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for an hour and it closes in the evening
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for an hour now if you want your kids on
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port days to be supervised and taken to
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meals you'll pay at the time
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according $6 for lunch $6 for dinner so
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the great news is as a parent you could
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go off on an all-day excursion and your
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kids would be supervised and you'd
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literally paying $6 but the actual
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supervision out of mealtimes totally
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free included within the fair after
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talking about the ability to eat 24
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hours a day and the huge amount of food
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options you'll be pleased to know that
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there's another thing that you can do
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for free and let's go to the very large
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fitness center so all the cardio
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equipment all of the weights is included
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with your face free to use once you
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start looking at classes you will pay
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for classes so but you can get a good
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workout you can really exercise and burn
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off any of those extra calories to then
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go back to your 24-hour eating also on
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board there is a running track around
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near the pool deck as well so again you
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can exercise all included within your
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fair Norwegian cruise lines and
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Norwegian encore really focus on their
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freestyle cruising which is giving you
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lots and lots of choice now a lot of the
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choice options do have a price
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associated with them however you can
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come onboard Norwegian encore and do
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loads of things for free in terms of
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exercising entertainment dining all
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included within your fare and without
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having to put your hand in your pocket
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and pay for anything extra unless of
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course those things really appeal to you
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hope you found that helpful I have loads
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watched another one of those right now
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