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8 Best Places In The World To Cruise To ?
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Jan 28, 2025
I explore the 8 destinations and place that, in my view, are much better to cruise to than go on a land-based vacation. Around the world some places are easier and simpler to visit and explore on a cruising vacation than trying to do it by land. Discover the 8 places, times and destinations that I believe you should consider a cruise to than the land alternative. SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY: Buying my Cruise T-shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore Booking your next cruise with CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://bit.ly/TFTBookCruise WATCH THESE POPULAR RECENT VIDEOS: 10 Cabins to Avoid: https://youtu.be/PgTGLma919A European River Cruise Watch-Outs: https://youtu.be/oqhz54wStyk 5 Cruises To Avoid: https://youtu.be/CNiPzK4IRWA Alaska Cruise Need-to-Knows: https://youtu.be/Tn7dpNw5kSI Things Cruise Lines Don’t Want You to Know: https://youtu.be/cs5UKha9ALc Rules Passengers Break Most: https://youtu.be/djZLZ3XV_f0 Things You Can’t Do On A Cruise Any More: https://youtu.be/zas6F4wMD0Q Should You Pay Cruise Gratuities: https://youtu.be/QBYzqxXjEXQ 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 77 cruises at time of making this video Follow Tips For Travellers on:
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you're about to discover the eight
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destinations that are better to cruise
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to then go on a land-based vacation
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I'm Gary bearish this is another of my
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cruise tips for travelers I want to talk
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about eight places eight destinations
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that I think are much better to visit on
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a cruise then go by land so this is not
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about why cruising is better than
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land-based vacations it's literally
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about the places to go and why I think
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you should go on a cruise rather than go
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by land so there's eight of them
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starting with this one well the first
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one is simply if you want to go
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somewhere anywhere in the world and
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you're terrified or don't want to fly
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any destination then is better than a
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land base if you want to go somewhere
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internationally somewhere where you have
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to leave the content or place that
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you're on to get there then clearly that
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place is best visited on a cruise
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because if you're terrified of flying or
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won't fly then it's you're never going
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to get there so it liberates you means
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you can go there so for example a friend
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of mine
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Daniel fair she's called cruise myths at
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Christmas calm she doesn't like flying
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but she travels around the world
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literally she's been on two world
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cruises but whenever she goes anywhere
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even it's on a river cruise in Europe
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she'll get the train to get there
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because she doesn't like flying so sure
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either get a cruise across to Europe
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she'll get a trend across Europe on the
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Eurostar and everywhere in the world she
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goes she goes on the ship and never
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stepped on a plane this means that by
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cruising she can travel anywhere she
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wants to go in the world the second are
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places that are going to be very
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difficult for an English speaker either
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because the language or culturally so if
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you're concerned about a really good
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example I think is Japan so I'd always
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wanted to go to Japan it's a magical
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place but I knew that actually Japan is
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going to be more of a challenge
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culturally and from a language
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perspective so the first time I went to
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Japan was on a cruise and we
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circumnavigated Japan has lots of cruise
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lines that do that it was fantastic
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because we got a way of seeing it in a
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way that was more curated and helped us
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get around as we got through the trip we
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got more more confident and solid
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actually not going on organized
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excursions and heading out ourselves
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because we'd learned how to navigate the
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culture the language the way things had
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worked oxygen speak Japanese but we'd
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learned how to navigate our way around
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all of that if you excuse
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that pun so definitely if the somewhere
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that you think you'd like to go to but
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you're worried about language and
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cultural and how to manage all that
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cruise is a great way to go because
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they'll create the whole experience
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they'll have guides that have help
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they'll have talks on board so that's
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the second critical place anyway that
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you're worried about that
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the third is also another kind of
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obvious one and that's when the
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destination is actually the cruise
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itself the most obvious of those is the
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iconic transatlantic crossing on the
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Queen Mary - so the destination is the
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sea it's the North Atlantic and you're
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going on that because that's the
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experience so that's you can't do any
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other way obviously then go on a cruise
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there are of course other transatlantic
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cruises you can do they're repositioning
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cruisers but the iconic one is the Queen
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Mary - from Southampton to New York that
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is a destination its own right and you
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can only of course do that by cruising
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the fourth one and this is one that I
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think is absolutely important and really
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fundamental is when the only real way to
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explore the destination is on a cruise
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so it's very very difficult to actually
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get there and see your way around in the
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other way certainly on land so what are
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the examples is probably for that I'd
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like to talk about the first of those is
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the Arctic and the Antarctic ax now
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there are some options where you can fly
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for example from a shire into Antarctica
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but you then have to go on a cruise to
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see it it's just impossible from a
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logistics perspective and availability
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perspective to see it any other way then
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on a cruise and the same is true on the
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Arctic if you hit up to spellbound the
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second is if you want to traverse the
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Panama Canal now of course you can go
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alongside the Panama Canal part of the
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way out on the train but if you really
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want to experience the iconic Panama
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Canal you have to go on a cruise so you
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can get some day trips where you could
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go land-based but you're still gonna
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have to cruise and go on a small cruise
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down it but the best way to see it is on
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a big massive cruise ship where you're
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heading through either el canal or the
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new canal the third one is the Amazon
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River again if you really want to
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explore the Amazon River a cruise is the
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way to go the fourth one of those is if
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you want to do something like you
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actually want to head around the base of
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South America and you want to experience
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that famous traditional
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Kruse itself as well and head up round
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to the glazes and chilli which you can
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really only see from a cruise v place or
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destination that I think is really
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fundamental to see on a cruise is
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actually when the best way to see the
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destination is on a cruise ship and
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there are a number of these when going
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on a cruise is way better than land
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vacation partly because just the
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logistics of getting around are solved
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on a cruise and actually the destination
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you see best from the water so what are
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those I think there's probably five of
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those that I've experienced the first of
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those is the Norwegian fjords it's quite
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difficult and you know quite hard to get
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around the various fjords and it could
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take a huge amount of time if you're
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trying to do it by it land enough to do
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a bit of land and ferry anyway but
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seeing it from a ship you're sailing
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right down to the fjords you're
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surrounded by the beautiful scenery
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scenery you'll never see if you're doing
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it by land second is also sort of linked
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to that unless New Zealand's you
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couldn't have the fuels which is milford
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sound again the best way of seeing that
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is on a cruise sailing through milford
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sound absolute spectacular you get up
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close you see the beautiful waterfalls
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things that you just wouldn't be able to
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see if you're doing it by land for me I
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think also the other example is the
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Alaska inside patches now of course you
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can go on land-based vacations to Alaska
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some they are quite difficult because
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some of the places you can only really
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get to either by flying into them or by
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going on a cruise but the Inside Passage
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is easiest and best seen on a cruise and
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that is one of the iconic trips visiting
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place like Juneau and a Skagway
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absolutely magnificent best way on is on
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a cruise although you can visit the
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Galapagus and you could fly to the
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Galapagos to get around the islands you
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have to go on a cruise so the easy thing
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to do is to do a cruise which basically
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takes you from point to point and you
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head around all of the islands there are
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ways where you can do it on the land
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where you then do ferry between the
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different islands but the best and
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easiest way I've seen the Galactic is
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the most simple way is on a cruise I
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also think that the French Polynesian
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islands is a great example of this so
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for example at at Paul Gauguin cruise
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and we managed on a cruise to go to
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loads of different islands even
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incredibly small little out-of-the-way
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islands you can also do it on Aranui
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which goes even to even more exotic and
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smaller islands if you're trying to do
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that by
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flying between them you would struggle
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because something you can't even fly
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between so you do have to get on the
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water for some of those but definitely
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French Polynesia is another great
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example of where a cruise way beats a
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land vacation just because you can see
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so much more for me the sixth one is if
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you don't want to get a taste for
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regions so for example let's take the
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Caribbean there are so many different
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islands and if you want to go on a
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land-based vacation you're going to have
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to pick one I do know people that have
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headed off to the Caribbean they've
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picked an island and they've been really
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disappointed felt I'd missed out so
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going on a cruise to get a taste where
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you even see five or more islands in the
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cruise helps you decide is this that we
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don't want to go to and which of those
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Islands would I want to spend more time
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on so definitely I think getting a taste
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of a region is a really good example the
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same is true if you're heading to other
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parts of the world whether it's the
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Baltics where you want to see the
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region's of different places around
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there decide which you want to go back
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to the same true of course of the
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Mediterranean so definitely if you want
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to go to a region but you're not sure
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exactly which part of the region a
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cruise is the best video don't go on a
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land-based vacation for the first time
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because example someone knows just come
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back from the Caribbean we're
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disappointed with the island they chose
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and felt they'd missed out if they'd
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gone on a cruise they would have known
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much better which island to go to the
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next is if you want to see a huge amount
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in a very short space of time so
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particularly for people based in the US
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you have much shorter holidays then
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perhaps people do have in Europe but you
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want to go and you want to see all the
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iconic sites and you want to see as much
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as possible in a week or 10 days or
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whatever so the cruise is a great way of
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doing that because you can move between
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countries you can move between
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destinations
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it's Nouri done when you're sleeping you
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don't have all the hassle of hanging
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around in airports because your travel
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time becomes enjoyment time so it's a
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really efficient way so if you want to
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see Europe for example you could in one
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simple week you could see Spain
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Barcelona you could see Pisa you could
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see Florence you could see Rome you
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could see Monte Carlo just so many
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different places that you could see in a
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week if you did the other Tenerife for
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example you could go you can see Venice
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you can see Dubrovnik you see split you
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could see Greek islands you can see
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Athens all in the space of seven days
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which would be really hard to see that
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much of Europe or that many countries if
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you're trying to do it
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tastehh another key thing and this sort
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of links back to where we started is if
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you want to see the world you want to
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travel right around the world you want
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to circumnavigate the world you want to
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stop at every single continent you'd
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find that very difficult to do is
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land-based you can of course buy
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round-the-world tickets but many of them
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limited you to seven stops for example
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so you can only do a round-the-world
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ticket which you have to keep moving in
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one direction and only seven places so
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once you get there you're gonna have to
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then spend a lot of time traveling out
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and about so if you want to go on a
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world cruise you want to circumnavigate
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the world you want to see the whole
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world go to as many continents as
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possible a cruise is definitely the way
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to do it it becomes a logistical
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nightmare and extremely complex if you
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were trying to do that and organize it
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yourself the cruise line will have
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really thought it all through there got
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the destinations they'll have excursions
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they'll have information and that's
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definitely a key way to go
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those are my view are there eight
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destinations or places that are better
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to go and see on a cruise than a
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land-based vacation I have many more
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cruising and destination tips and advice
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videos so why don't you watch another
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one of those right now
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