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10 Best Cruises In The World For Your Bucket List
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Jan 28, 2025
What are 10 essential and best must-do cruises and cruise destinations in the world? What do I believe are the very best cruising vacations and destinations that should be on your cruising bucket list? Based on my experience of doing 68 cruises around the world (at time of recording), I talk about the 10 very best cruises that I recommend anyone who loves or wants to do cruising should consider. How many have you done? How many of the cruises are on your bucket list and you want to do having watched these 10 best cruises? ** 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 #BestCruises #CruiseTips #BucketListCruises
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you're about to discover the ten cruises
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that I believe everybody should have on
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their to-do list their bucket list they
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must do list
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I'm Gary Bainbridge this is another of
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my tips of Travis I want to talk about
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the 10 essential cruisers the 10
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cruisers that I really believe that
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everybody should try and do at least
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once in their life the first of these is
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a Caribbean cruise the Caribbean is the
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biggest and most popular cruising region
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in the world and that's for a very good
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reason it is absolutely magnificent and
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all the islands and the places that the
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cruise lines go to are phenomenally well
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geared up to deal with cruises and the
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whole cruising vacation there are a
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whole bunch of different cruises that
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you can do out of the Caribbean many of
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them sailing out of Miami or Port
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Canaveral or other ports within the US
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you can also do some directly from
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Europe where they'll cross the Atlantic
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spend some time the Caribbean and head
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back so if you don't want to fly there
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are three key cruisers in the Caribbean
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to consider you have the Eastern
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Caribbean which will do things like the
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Bahamas the Cayman Islands Dominican
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Republic you've got the Western
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Caribbean that will do things like
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Jamaica got large parts of Mexico like
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Cozumel Costa Maya then you have the
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Southern Caribbean which is more your
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sand Kitts Antigua Martinique Dominica
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and Lucia Barbados it's hard to choose
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between them but definitely pick one of
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them and of course if you want to add
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more cruises do all three of them so
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you've done all three sectors of the
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Caribbean but definitely Caribbean
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should be on that list the second
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biggest cruising region in the world is
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a Mediterranean and again for very good
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reasons it gives you a great overview of
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Europe because on a cruise you'll often
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call it multiple countries so you'll see
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lots of different cultures
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there are beautiful historical sites
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there's stunning beaches depending on
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where you go and so it's a great way of
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seeing Europe and it's really great of
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course because you can see multiple
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countries lots of different places and
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you only have to unpack and then pack
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once this again like in the Caribbean
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lots of different itineraries many of
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them will go out of place like Barcelona
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Athens Venice or Rome you can also do it
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out of Southampton in the UK which takes
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a little bit of longer because you have
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to head through the Straits of Gibraltar
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to get into the Mediterranean lots of
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different itineraries you have the East
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and the Western and of course one of the
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most popular for people to do is the
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trip from Venice down to Athens which is
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really magnificent you get a chance to
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also see the Greek islands and only of
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course will contemplate us like
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Dubrovnik the Mediterranean absolutely
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should be on your list and again there
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are multiple options but definitely the
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Mediterranean my third suggestion is
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Alaska Alaska I think I'm saying is the
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third biggest cruising region it's
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growing really fast and it's really
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magnificent it took me a while to get to
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Alaska but once I went there I realized
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why it was so popular there is
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magnificent scenery it really is
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absolutely spectacular you could do it
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out of places like Vancouver very
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popular out of Seattle are the really
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popular ones I would recommend for your
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very first cruise to Alaska do an inside
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passage cruise and when you're looking
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at booking try and make sure that you're
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going on artillery that includes Glacier
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Bay not all cruise lines get into place
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here Bay it's very restricted around how
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many ships can go there every day but it
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is really really incredible of course as
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the name suggests there's lots of places
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so my strong recommendation for your
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first-time cruise to Alaska Inside
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Passage really it is a magnificent place
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to go and more and more cruise lines are
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going from the bigger ships down to some
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of the smaller ships so you have lots of
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choice on options Alaska definitely
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should be on that list my next
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suggestion and a really strong tip is to
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do one of the iconic and classic trips
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and this is a transatlantic on the Queen
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Mary - in the 40s 50s and before that
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crossing Atlantic was the only way you'd
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get between Europe and the United States
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Kennedy is the only cruise liner in
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Queen Mary - that has a traditional
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liner ship and it's a really magnificent
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experience it takes between seven and
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eight days depending on the itinerary
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you choose and of course that's all at
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sea but it's a whole beautiful trip
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where they try and recreate some of the
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romance and specialness of those very
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glamorous days of cruising it's a
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magnificent ship it's sort of art
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deco-inspired de coeur lots of dressing
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up it's a great trip to do if you've got
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a special event like a birthday or an
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anniversary but it is one of the most
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iconic
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and you need to do it on Cunard Queen
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Maru - you can do other transatlantic
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trips which are repositioning but ready
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for me the ultimate classic one is the
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Queen Mary - absolutely definitely do
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that one one of the most beautiful trips
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that you can do is a cruise to the
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Norwegian fjords and there's lots of
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options you can do you can either go out
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of places in Sweden for example or you
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can sell from the UK out of Southampton
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where they'll have a day at sea time
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around the Norwegian fjords and a day at
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sea back the Norwegian fjords are
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absolutely magnificent and you sell
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really far inland on ships with huge big
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walls of rock and outside water falls
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into these beautiful little picturesque
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towns if you go in summer which is when
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the season is you also have pretty much
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a midnight Sun so it's light all the
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time so as you cruise through the fjords
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you can go out on deck or suddenly a
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balcony and just enjoy the scenery but I
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would strongly strongly recommend the
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Norwegian fjords that was another trip
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that it took me a while to do but once I
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did that I now recommended like crazy to
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everybody Norwegian fjords absolutely
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magnificent another very popular
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European based cruise is to the Baltics
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and this is very magical these normally
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go to places like Helsinki they'll go to
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Tallinn and then they will head into
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some Petersburg in Russia and normally
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will be either two or three overnights
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there to make sure that you can really
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explore the magnificent that is st.
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Petersburg with its beautiful buildings
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its museums it's old chateaus and
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castles and it really is a magnificent
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trip it's very interesting because
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you're gonna see parts of the world that
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you don't really know that well and it
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definitely is a great great trip to do
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an advantage of going on a cruise
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particularly go on cruise excursions you
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don't have to worry with all the hassles
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of Russian visas because if you go on a
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cruise on excursion you don't have to
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bother with visa so that's the big plus
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the Baltics is definitely something I
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would have up there but if you're
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interested in understanding and
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experiencing very different cultures and
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you're very interested in to the
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cultural and the art side Baltics is a
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phenomenal cruise and again lots of
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different cruise lines go there as well
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so on some of the smaller cruise ships
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they dock right in the heart of San
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Petersburg so if you're going on a
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Baltics
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also look at some of those smaller
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shipped cruise lines ever since I was a
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little boy when I first heard about the
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Panama Canal that was on my list of
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things to do going through the Panama
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Canal is again a bit like a
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transatlantic it's one of the big iconic
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type of trips you can do I would always
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recommend try and building at some point
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in your cruising life a trip that's
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going to take you through the Panama
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Canal it is an incredible experience you
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can do that obviously if you're doing at
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some big grand voyage like a world tour
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they will often go through a Panama
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Canal but you can often do from the
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Caribbean up to Los Angeles or San
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Francisco or you can do if you're doing
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parts of South America some of the
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cruises will go through there but Panama
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Canal it's a magical day and it is just
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a phenomenal understanding of man's
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ingenuity and engineering and it really
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is again one of those iconic trip so I
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think if you're into cruising the Panama
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Canal like the transatlantic is an
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iconic thing that you want to have on
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your list of things to have experienced
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my next suggestion I really wrestled
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with whether I should make it 2 or 1 but
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because of the pure enormity of cost of
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going there I've made it one and that's
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to go to one of the polar regions either
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the Arctic or Antarctica now both of
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those for me were on my wish list and
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I've been to both the Arctic and have
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been to Antarctica they're very
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different so if you go to the Arctic
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you're gonna see things like polar bears
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if you go to Antarctica you're gonna see
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penguins go to one or either of them
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Antarctica for me was probably the most
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different and the most incredible and
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the one that for me really blew me away
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so actually Antarctica is the place that
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I'm going to for a second time so if I
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did have to recommend one I guess I'm
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saying Antarctica because that's the one
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I'm heading back to for a second time
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one of the most magical regions of the
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world is the Galapagos and that is
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definitely something that should be on
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the list it's like the polar regions
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it's a very expensive place to go but
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the wildlife is so unique and different
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and there are very strict rules around
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who can go there so that's what makes it
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kind of expensive but the Galapagos
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definitely should be on the list
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my next tip is around one of the most
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beautiful and interesting parts of the
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world and that's the French Polynesian
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islands at the time of recording us I
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have not long been back from there and
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it was incredible the islands are very
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beautiful the people are amazing the
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culture is phenomenal it's so ice age
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and again it's quite difficult to get to
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it's eight and a half hours flight from
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Los Angeles it takes you 21 hours from
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Paris to get there but once you're there
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it is just absolutely beautiful there
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are just under 200 islands only 60 odd
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of them are inhabited and going on a
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cruise you go to see very diverse
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islands some are volcanic some are very
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lush and some of them are just
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incredibly beautiful beaches and reefs
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so the french polynesian islands is
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definitely one that i would really
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recommend you have on the list there are
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so many cruises and options that you can
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do those for me are the 10 absolute
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Mahseer must do based on my experience I
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have loads of tips about cruising
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destinations and all sorts of cruising
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opportunities and ideas so why don't you
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