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10 Things Not To Do On A Cruise Ship Balcony (Ever!)
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Jan 28, 2025
Discover the 10 things that you should never do on a cruise ship balcony. Some of them are rules from the cruise line, which if you break you could find yourself thrown off your cruising vacation (or even banned by the cruise line for life!). Some are things that will make your and the other cruisers around you have a more enjoyable cruise. And some even could save you a lot of embarrassment.... ** Buy my Cruise T-shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore ** USA cruisers get great cruise deals CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://bit.ly/TFTBookCruise ** UK Cruisers get great cruise deals with CRUISE.CO.UK: http://bit.ly/BookCruiseUK Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 60+ cruises. Follow Tips For Travellers on: - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/garybembridge - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge #BalconyCabin #CruiseBalcony #CruiseCabinTips
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you're about to discover the ten things
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you should never do on a cruise ship
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balcony
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I'm Gary Bainbridge and this is another
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of my tips for travelers I'm about to
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talk about ten absolute no nose for
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cruise ship balconies the first of these
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is really something very practical and
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sensible never sit on stand on or climb
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on the railing on a balcony
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it is completely crazy and it's
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completely mad lots of people talk about
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people falling off cruise ships it's
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pretty much impossible to fall off a
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cruise ship most of the people who've
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gone overboard have done it either
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because they want to do it or they've
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fallen off by doing something crazy by
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sitting on a balcony railing or what's
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also been known to happen is by standing
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up and trying to climb from one balcony
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on to the next and people have fallen
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off so importantly never sit on a
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railing put your kids on the railing you
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know if you're holding them this has
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been some really tragic accidents never
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sit stand or do anything on your balcony
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railing the second no-no for a cruise
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ship balcony is also a rule by the
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cruise lines pretty much every single
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cruise line bans you from smoking or
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vaping in your cabin and on your balcony
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cruise lines are actually under their
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rules able to ask you to leave the ship
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and disembark you at the next port it's
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the smoking vaping it's definitely a
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no-no on your balcony the third one is
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also a really important rule and that's
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don't throw things overboard from your
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balcony one of the most important of
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that is lighted matches or cigarette but
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the biggest risk on a cruise ship is
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fire that's the thing that cruise lines
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and captains fear more than any thing
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else one of the easiest ways for there
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to start is people throwing cigarette
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butts over the side of the ship it gets
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sucked back in somewhere else and
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creates a fire without anyone knowing
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about it but don't throw anything
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overboard don't throw any rubbish don't
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throw bottles with messages in so really
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don't throw anything overboard for
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environmental reasons and safety reasons
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because of the way the wind works when
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the ship is cruising it's very easy for
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things to get blown and sucked back onto
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the ships so don't throw things
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overboard from your balcony
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think very carefully before you either
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sunbae or stand nude and naked on your
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balcony for a couple of reasons first of
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all many cruise ships have cameras
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trained on all sorts of parts of the
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ship so it's very possible that one of
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the external security cameras can
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actually catch you standing or
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sunbathing nude on the balcony it's also
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very possible that people from the port
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or other ships are gonna see you and I
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have lots of stories of people who have
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seen people standing start bollock naked
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or somebody naked on ships as they see
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them in port or leaving port also
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because of the way the ships are
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designed
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it's also very easy for people to see
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what's going on on other balconies often
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either despite leaning over or because
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of the shape of the ships which overlook
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other balconies so naked sunbathing and
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nudity on your balcony is much more
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risky than you think it could be if
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you're really into sunbathing nude you
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could consider going on a nudist cruise
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or on some of the German cruise lines
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like a bad Lloyd and Aida which actually
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have naked sunbathing areas link to that
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is around having sex on your balcony
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this is definitely something that you
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should think twice about partly because
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I've already mentioned around the fact
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that you may be recorded but also bear
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in mind that even people can't overlook
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you balconies are not that private if
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you take a look at your balconies
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although there's dividers it's very easy
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for people if they hear noise to look
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around look under or look over the
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various - viruses so definitely it's
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quite risky so if you are gonna get up
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to that selectivity might want to check
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the balconies I've ever looked there's
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no cameras on you and also perhaps check
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that there's no on out on the balconies
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above below or on either side of you
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another cabin no no that the cruise
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lines really try and encourage people
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not to do is to leave your balcony door
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open now a lot of people like that even
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the balcony door open to get some fresh
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air in here the sound of the ocean as
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you're cruising however it's not a great
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idea to do for a couple of reasons first
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of all if you leave the cabin door open
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it actually plays havoc with the air
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conditioning system on the cruise ship
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because it's not really sure what's
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going on and it tends to go into
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overdrive so of course it starts using
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up
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much more energy than it would normally
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do which of course is not great for the
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environment by using much more energy
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also if someone opens your cabin door it
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creates this enormous wind tunnel and
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does create some havoc within your cabin
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so though it may be very tempting the
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cruise lines strongly discourage people
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from leaving their balcony door open the
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next no-no is something that does drive
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me slightly crazy and certainly it's
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things that I've seen lots of people
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commenting on other videos and that's
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about people who play loud music on
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their balcony or play it in their cabin
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and have the balcony door open bear
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imide the sound does actually travel
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quite far and you'll find if you're on
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the balcony if you're playing music it
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travels above below and around you not
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even once listen to your style of music
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playing loud music is a definite no-no
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it does Drive other cruisers crazy link
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to that is of course make a lot of noise
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on your balcony barting or just being
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generally kind of loud and noisy it is
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going to disturb other people really out
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of consideration for other people is try
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and use your balcony what a lot of
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people are trying to use their balcony
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for which is tell me to go and rest and
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relax for most people the reason they
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choose a balcony is because they want to
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go out there have some quiet time
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sunbathe place to rest and relax so loud
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music and people talking really loudly
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and being boisterous really interferes
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and other people's idea of a great
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vacation so for me I think it's a real
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key no no the next no no for a balcony
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is something that a lot of people will
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think a little bit crazy and that's
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using your balcony to dry clothes a
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couple of reasons for that first of all
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it looks a little bit unsightly however
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that's not the key reason actually if
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your clothes are left out there with the
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sea air and the salt it's actually not
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necessarily going to dry them as much as
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you would think and of course because of
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the way that wind blows particularly if
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you're out selling it's also very likely
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that part of your clothes or pieces of
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your clothes are going to be blown off
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the balcony and as we said earlier
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throwing things or chucking things into
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the ocean even not deliberately is
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something you want to avoid both in
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environment and also for safety reasons
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so don't dry your clothes on the balcony
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in pretty much every single bathroom in
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the shower or above the bar
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would normally be a clothesline and
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that's the place to hang your clothes
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how many cruise ships they'll also have
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guest laundry so if your clothes are
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pretty where two doors go and just
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tumble dry them but actually putting
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them out on the balcony is not
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necessarily going to dry them as much do
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you think and there is a risk receipt if
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you're selling that they blow off into
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the ocean another no no that wines a lot
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of people up is people who leave their
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balcony lights on often you'll find the
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cabin students when they set the room in
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the evening will switch off the balcony
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light the downside of being the balcony
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light on it is first of all it's using
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unnecessary energy and of course again
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that means the ship is having to
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generate more energy and of course
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that's bad from an environmental
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perspective but also if people want to
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use their balcony at night to go out and
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look at the Stars and relax people
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having their barking lights on is
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actually ruining that whole experience
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so there's no need to leave your balcony
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light on unless you're powering about
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canoe you want to be doing something
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with the light on it means that if
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people around you want to use the
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balcony in the evenings and enjoy the
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night air and the darkness they can
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we're not going to cruise I love to have
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a balcony cabin and these are 10 things
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that I try and not do on my balcony and
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always hope the people around me aren't
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doing cuz it makes my vacation even
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better I have lots of other videos with
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packed full of cruising tips and advice
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so why don't you watch one of them right
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now
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