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I'm going mhm this is another of my
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cruising tips for trailers I'm getting
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asked a lot about cruising and 2020 the
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three key questions I'm being asked is
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first of all I have a final balance
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looming for a cruise in 2020 what should
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I do should I pay it secondly I have a
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cruise for later in 2020 should i cancel
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it now move it right now or thirdly I
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really want to get back to cruising and
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I'm thinking of booking a cruise should
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I book it or not first of all there's
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four critical things that you should
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bear in mind if you are thinking of
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cruising all you have a booking and
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these are really really important first
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of all no one knows when mainstream
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cruising is going to reopen no matter
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what cruise lines have on sale no matter
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what people might think the reality is
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nobody actually knows the exact date for
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cruising to return on a big scale all of
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the CEOs of the major cruise lines so
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Royal Caribbean Carnival Corporation and
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Norwegian cruise lines all of it they do
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not know the CDC the Center for Disease
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Control in the United States which will
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decide when increasing can start for any
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cruises that are coming in and out of US
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ports have even in the last 10 days
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issued a statement saying they do not
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know when the situation is going to be
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ready for cruising to return we've seen
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some small pockets beginning very
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regional so we seeing just right now in
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Norway we seen some early cruises for
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Norwegian passengers to Norwegian ports
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we're seeing some river cruising
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tentatively starting again very local
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the second key thing to bear in mind as
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you make these decisions is nobody knows
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what the final protocols are going to be
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what we're seeing is some early
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indications of protocols we've got some
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indications of what they like to be so
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we've seen generally speaking fewer
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passengers on board we see much more
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screening some acquiring testing so for
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example prononce have issued their
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protocols as they start taking bookings
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in are allowed to reopen in Tahiti with
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their Paul Gauguin brand you're gonna
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have to do a covert 19 test before you
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head off for that cruise we're seeing
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more temperature screening we're seeing
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venues on board are going to be
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restricted the number of people that can
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be there at any one time we're seeing in
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hearts cleaning procedures we seen
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we know self-service dining in many
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cases it'll be served in some form or
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fashion we're also seeing much higher
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level of medical facilities equipment on
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board we also don't know how many ships
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will be selling so all the cruise lines
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are met it clear that they will phase
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back ships so as you look at an
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itinerary as you look at bookings ahead
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bear in mind that even if you've got a
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booking that may not actually one of
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those that is included in the phase
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rollouts we also don't know what ports
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are gonna be open and what itineraries
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are gonna be open so again all the
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cruise lines are saying they're
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expecting when they start they're not
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gonna be able to run the schedules
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that's plan because it could be very
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dependent on what ports are open so
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barring all those uncertainties in mind
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what should you be doing about 2020 and
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crusing so let's take a look at the
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first one you've got a cruise booked and
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a final balance is looming which of
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course could be many thousands of
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dollars or euros or pounds or whatever
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you probably do not want to pay it until
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you are 100% sure and the cruise lines
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are clear about what cruises are going
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to be running because you could be
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handing over many thousands of dollars
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to a cruise line which then cancels the
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cruise and then you have to go through
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the whole process of trying to get that
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back with its future cruise credits or
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in some cases waiting up to 90 days to
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get your money back so for example I
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have a big and article cruise later in
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the year in November the final payment
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is due towards the end of July it's a
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lot of money and unless I know
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absolutely it's signed off and it's
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going to go I think I will not pay the
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balance and look at scheduling and take
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advantage of the flexibility that cruise
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lines are allowing to move bookings
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without penalty ask yourself do I really
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want to hand over money for a cruise
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that I absolutely at this point of time
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do not know is gonna go what happens
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we've got a booking for later in the
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year and the final balance is still some
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time wise lot of people ask me should
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they cancel that because they either not
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sure they want to go then of course the
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cruise is going to go my advice is hold
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on to that booking and wait until the
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cruise line cancels the reason for that
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is pretty simple if the cruise line
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cancels you normally have an option of a
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cash refund which could be important to
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you if you want to build in flexibility
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or they give you some kind of bonus
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because they've cancelled the cruise so
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25% it seems to be more of the norm hold
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your nerve and wait until the cruise
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line cancels I've done that with many of
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the cruises that I've had even though
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they're quite far out have waited under
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cancels because I can then get my cash
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back which I'm tending to do a lot
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because it gives more flexibility and
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add lots of cruisers what if you really
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want to go cruising and you're eager to
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book 2020 there's lots and lots of deals
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out there for 2020 I would strongly
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advise against making a booking for 2020
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again until the cruise lines have got
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sign-off and you know exactly that the
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cruises are gonna go portney as I said
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at the beginning there because you also
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will know what cruisers are going so for
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example we're seeing just starting up
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right now see dream starting sailing in
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Norway for Norwegian guess that was
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never on the schedule it's now in place
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they got sign-off it went on sale and
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people could then book that with
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confidence knowing that it's happening a
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lot of people jumped on the bandwagon
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when they saw the no sell order in the
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u.s. ending at the end of July they
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booked cruises in August and in fact the
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yesterday the day before I recorded this
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Norwegian Cruise Line canceled all of
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their August booking so lots of people
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piled in and booked cruises in August
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I've now paid deposits and the cruise
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line is sitting on the money and they
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have no cruise so I really absolutely
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strongly wait until cruises start up and
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you know what the protocols are you know
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exactly what cruises are what ships
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there are and what sort of deal you can
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get you might find the protocols that
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are part of that whole process you don't
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like so there's a whole bunch of
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different requirements and protocols
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that will be put in place and you may
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decide actually I don't want to do this
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if you've booked the cruise and then
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these protocols comes in place you don't
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like you are then locked in to cruise
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you may not want to do the other thing
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that's really important as you think
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about cruising is you need to understand
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what your government restrictions are so
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for example in the UK which is where I
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am based at the moment the government
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has a no non-essential travel bans the
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us don't even letting UK and EU people
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in at the moment at the moment there's a
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14 day quarantine when you return so you
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need to also be aware that the whole
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quarantine in regulations board is
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opening is a constantly fluid situation
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so you need to wait until those are
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lifted it's absolutely clear and until
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things are signed off and agreed you
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really need to be absolutely cautious
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and wait once it's all go go go that's
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the time to jump in and
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things going I have loads more videos
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packed full of cruising tips and advice
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