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Best Adult-Only Cruise Lines And Cruises
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Jan 28, 2025
I look at the very best adult-only cruise lines and cruises. I explore four main topics: (1) Adult-Only Cruise Lines, (2) Adult Ships / Cruises, (3) Adult-Focused cruise lines (where you are less likely to find kids) and (4) how to choose a cruise that will have low or less chance of finding kids on board. I really enjoy adult-only cruising and these are the tips and guidance that I use to find these. 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.
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what are the best adult-only cruise
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lines and cruisers in the world today
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruising tips for travelers there are
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surprisingly few adult-only cruise lines
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and cruises so I thought I would explore
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what those are and the best ones that
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you can focus on if you're looking for a
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kids free vacation plus some tips on how
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to make sure if you do want to cruise
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kids free that you choose cruisers that
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even if they're not adults only are
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going to minimize the chance of having
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loads of kids so let's start by looking
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at the adult Olli cruise lines there are
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surprisingly few adults only cruise
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lines which is quite a surprise
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considering that this is something
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that's been identified as a growing
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trend in cruising there are probably
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only three ki adult only cruises the
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first of those is the new boy on the
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block and that's a virgin voyages virgin
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voyages have scarlet lady in 2020 they
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have valiant lady in 2021 and two more
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ships coming in the two years after that
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the first two ships are going to be
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adults only so scarlet lady is going to
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be based in the Carribean selling out of
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Miami and valiant lady in the
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Mediterranean sailing Mediterranean
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trips you have to be over 18 to go on a
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virgin voyage we don't know if the
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future ships are going to be family or
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not but certainly if you're looking for
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an adults-only cruise and certainly one
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that's gonna be very high-energy very
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buzzy lots of partying and loads of
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special adults only features virgin
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voyages is definitely one to consider
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virgin voyages have largely
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all-inclusive fare so they're going to
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throw in Wi-Fi they're going to throw in
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all the dining options of which there
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will be many gratuities are included
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some basic soft drinks and things like
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coffees are going to be included so
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quite a lot it's going to be included
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within the Virgin fare the second one is
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probably going to be a little bit more
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mature and sophisticated even than
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virgin voyages which is aiming to really
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cater for the youthful at heart and that
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is Viking cruises to cruise on a Viking
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ocean cruise in fact even on a river
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cruise you have to be over 18 years old
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so certainly if you're looking for a
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sort of more sophisticated
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perhaps more refined kind of cruising
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experience one that's perhaps a little
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bit more laid-back less sort of party
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like then Viking is a great one to
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consider Viking have quite a lot
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included within their fare so that's in
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a big plus so they normally have
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excursions in many of the ports included
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drinks at mealtimes lunch and dinner I
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included Wi-Fi is included so the key
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extras will be things like gratuities
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and other extra excursions the third
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adults-only Cruise Line is one that's
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catering for the over 50s and that is
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saga cruises they sell mostly out of the
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UK and they cruise all year round out of
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the UK so you have to be 50 to go on the
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cruise however people in your party can
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be under 50 ideally over 40 to go on the
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cruise
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they also Kate a lot for solo travelers
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so 20% of their ships are solo cabins at
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all sorts of grades so they have the
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spirit of discovery and the spirit of
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adventure so a very new fleet spirit of
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discovery came to service in 2019 and a
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spirit of adventure in 2020 those are
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the only three totally dedicated adults
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only cruises there are some that offer
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adult cruising some times of the year on
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some specific ships so let's take a look
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at what those are there are then four
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cruise lines that either have ships
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dedicated adults only or at certain
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times of the year offer adult only
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cruises now what's interesting about
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that is most of them are actually UK
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owned or operated cruise lines although
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many of them do sell internationally the
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first and one of the best-known sitting
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in the UK is P&O Cruises so they have
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quite a big fleet which is growing and
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at the time recording they have seven
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ships either launched or announced
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including Iona and they offer family
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cruises however they have two ships
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which is Aurora and Arcadia which all
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year round offer adult only cruises and
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what's interesting about both those
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ships is they do sell around the world
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they go to the Caribbean for example and
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some of them even do grand world voyages
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so as an adult you can definitely find
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many of the regions of the world you can
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cruise adults-only
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on piano cruises the second cruise line
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which falls into this category is mirela
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now mirela is part of the two-year
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travel group and in the UK mirela is
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their cruise brand it's a very very
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popular and fast-growing brand partly
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because it's really good value so the
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fairs are pretty low and it's all
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inclusive so everything is bundled into
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those fairs they have one ship which is
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the Marella Explorer two which is a
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focused adult only ship so that sells
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adults only and the facilities and
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things are catered to adults this trip
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to are things like the kids club when
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they acquired that ship with the rest of
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their fleet they do offer adult only
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cruises at certain times of the year and
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that tends to be out of peak school
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holiday periods so Marella is certainly
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a great one to look at Marella very UK
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focused sir tends to sell most of the UK
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and very UK passenger focused the third
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cruise line that falls into this
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category is cruise in maritime this is
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UK operated owned and sells out of the
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UK mostly however their ships do go
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internationally so if you take a look at
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the iTunes you'll find them heading
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right down to Australia through Asia
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into the Caribbean so certainly it's
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definitely one to consider they have
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said at the time recording four key
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ships within their fleets and those are
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the Columbus the Magellan the Marco Polo
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and the Astoria
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now Lamarr Coppola and the Astoria are
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their adults focus ships so they sail
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normally all year round adults only the
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other two in their fleet so the Magellan
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and the Columbus they operate for as
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adult only most of the year round but
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they will have families certainly
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multi-generational cruises particularly
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in the school holiday period so
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certainly cruising maritime is leaning
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very much towards adults and mostly they
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operate adult only the fourth cruise
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line that falls into this category is
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Fred Olson Fred Olson although it's
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Scandinavian linked and owned it's is
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very much a UK cruise brand and very
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popular particularly with a slightly
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older audience and they do sell again
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extensively their world cruise that goes
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all around Sicily of no matter which one
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of the world doing you probably can buy
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it one of the legs to cruise somewhere
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exotic in the world and they do offer
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adult only cruises at certain times of
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the year so certain if you look at their
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website you'll find which are defined as
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adults only but they do and the rest of
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the year have very kids friendly cruises
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so certainly federal cents a good one to
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look at particularly looking for longer
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voyages they're very reasonably priced
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and will offer you at
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only cruising if none of those appeal to
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you there are some cruise lines which
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are pretty adult focus certainly by the
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nature of the ships they have and the
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sort of experience and these tend to be
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the smaller more premium cruise lines so
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the two I'm really thinking of here are
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Oceania Cruises and as Amara cruises
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they operate small ships so they'll have
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ships around about 700 passengers up to
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about 1200 passengers so that sort of
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small to mid-size they tend to be very
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destinations focused they don't have
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kids clubs facilities on board and the
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whole experience the destinations the
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length of the cruises is geared very
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much to an adults audience so it's very
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likely if you go on those cruises that
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you're not going to find kids on board
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because they just don't cater for them
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the one exception is probably in Alaska
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Oceania during the key Alaska season
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sitting the holiday period will put some
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programs on for kids but they don't have
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family cabins on those two cruise lines
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they don't generally have kids clubs and
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it's very very focused towards adults so
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certainly if none of the others appeal
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to you take a look at Oceania and as
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America's you're more than likely not
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going to find kids on board and if there
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are kids on board they're probably going
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to be much older so late teens early
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twenties which I guess aren't kids
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anymore on those particular cruise lines
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if you want to cruise without kids
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you've got you add only cruise lines
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which you've seen are not that many
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you've got those that some or part of
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the year either through cruises or some
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of their ships operate only and some
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which are biased really towards adults
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how do you no matter which cruise line
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you're on minimize the chance of having
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kids on board well first of all look at
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longer cruises so the longer the cruise
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the less likely is going to be kids on
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board just because the nature of the way
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that holidays and family lives work
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secondly of course avoid any key holiday
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periods with that school holidays
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Christmas Easter any of the big you know
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holiday periods like Thanksgiving in the
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US for example so avoid all of those and
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look at the times when kids are most
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like to be in school so for example I
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rely cruising in November time into very
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early December I like cruising in
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February even from the January versus
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early February time zone really great
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time to go and June are really good
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times
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so periods around those just take a look
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if there's any big you know half term
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holidays or whatever but those are the
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months that I'll really relate to Cruz
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because the charging having kids is
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really really small and the other thing
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to do is look at itineraries which are a
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little bit more exotic
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so the Mediterranean is going to have
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lots of opportunities going to be very
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popular with families the Caribbean of
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course very popular with kids and
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families so as you start to spread out
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into more exotic parts of the world
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you're going to find less chances of
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there being kids on board there are
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surprisingly few adults only cruise
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lines at this point in time hoping this
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helped you if you do want to cruise
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without kids find the best way to go
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whether it's adult only Cruise Lines
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cruise lines that have adult only part
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of their fleet or part of the year or
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lines that are very focused on adults
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anyway even though they don't have a
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policy around kids coming onboard I have
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many more cruising 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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