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Norwegian Cruises Watch-Outs: 10 Things Not Covered By Your Fare
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Jan 28, 2025
I explore a key watch-out if you are planning a cruise with Norwegian Cruise Line: what is and (more importantly) is not going to be included in your cruise fare. Armed with this knowledge you can budget and plan for your Norwegian Cruise Line cruising vacation knowing you can take part and enjoy the things you want to. There is a huge amount of choice on Norwegian Cruise Line ships, especially the larger ones. many of the features you may see advertised may involve extras costs to enjoy, so I lay these out. And also the many things a Norwegian Cruise Line fare does include. 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 60+ cruises. Follow Tips For Travellers on:
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you're about to discover the 10 things
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that are not covered by your Norwegian
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Cruise Line fare
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruise tips for travelers I'm just
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recently back from a cruise on a
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Norwegian Cruise Line and it really
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struck me there was a whole bunch of
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things that the fare didn't include so I
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thought I would share those with you
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right now so you can plan and be better
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informed so first of all let's start by
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looking at what is included with your
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fare before those 10 things that are not
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included in the fare what is included in
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your fare well first of all of course
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your accommodation is included the great
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thing is you can pretty much eat 24
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hours a day on a Norwegian Cruise Line
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ship because you have the main dining
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rooms which are normally the Manhattan
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taste and savor you also have the Garden
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Cafe now the buffet cafe you then also
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have one of the specialty restaurants
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which is normally the local bar and
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grill which serves things like hot dogs
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hamburgers 24 hours a day so you can eat
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pretty much all of the time access to
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most of the facilities is included with
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your fare what so really importantly of
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course all the kids clubs are included
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within the fare so that's great if
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you're traveling with kids but you're
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going to access pretty much all of the
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facilities across the ship and all of
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the entertainment is normally included
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within the fare take me to see the big
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production shows so for example as on
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Norwegian encore and they had kinky
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boots but you can also see other big
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West End Broadway tile style shows so
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the entertainment is included all the
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sort of music live music around the ship
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is included within the fair so
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entertainment is included if you're
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lucky enough to be traveling the Haven
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which is the premium area you're also
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getting get a whole bunch of other
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things so you're gonna get a very
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special area you're gonna have a special
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lounge you know a butler whole lot of
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perks like that within the Haven area
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that's included within your fare so
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let's talk now about the ten things that
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are not included in your Norwegian
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Cruise Line fare the first thing that's
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not included in your fare is service
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charges or gratuities so if you're
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cruising in something up to a mini suite
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sort of level you're going to be paying
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$15 per
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person per day and that includes kids as
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well if you're staying in the more
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premium Suites in the Haven you will be
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paying at the time of recording anyway
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$18 per person per day so gratuities
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service charges are not included within
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your fare you can prepay them or they
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will be auto charged on board to your
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account I mentioned there was loads of
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things you can eat within your fare
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however there's a lot of options that
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are not included in your fare and you'll
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pay extra for so those are a whole bunch
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of speciality restaurants of which
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Norwegian has loads of them and a whole
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lot of sort of like dining or Treat type
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areas let's take a look at the sort of
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special addresses that you can expect
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onboard your ship and I'll use Norwegian
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encore is an example but these are
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pretty similar across all of their big
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ships so you're gonna have on device by
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scott better which is of the more
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italian ease feel you've got Cagney's
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Steakhouse let bistro which is French
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teppanyaki food Republic which is a
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really kind of new fusion fun place Los
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Lobos q Texas smokehouse ocean-blue the
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American diner so you can have up to
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nine speciality restaurants eating of
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those is extra you can also buy packages
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for the special ed to restaurants you
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then have a whole bunch of food and
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beverage places so one of my big
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favorites is you often find Starbucks on
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board you're gonna find a bake shop with
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great cakes dolce gelato Coco's where
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you can get great milkshakes and that
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kind of stuff as well so there's a whole
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bunch of food and beverage places to
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tempt you to spend your money all of
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that not included within your fare
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what's a very importantly room service
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is not free you do have a charge if you
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order room service when I was on the
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cruise they were charging seven dollars
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95 for every order that you were placing
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now if you're in the Haven or the Suites
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you didn't pay for that but room service
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does have a service charge associated
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with it so the food itself is free there
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is a service charge the third thing
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that's not included within your fare is
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beverages particular alcoholic beverages
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and sort of premium beverages you can
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get some basic beverages you know basic
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teas coffees juices that kind of stuff
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up in the buffet restaurant or when
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you're eating in
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the main dining room for example but if
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you want to drink alcohol or lots of
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premium sodas you are gonna have to pay
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now they have their premium beverage
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package which costs $99 per person per
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day and it goes give you a huge amount
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of choice but that's quite a lot of cost
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and of course you will then have the
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gratuity service charge on top of that
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what the norwegian rules say is that
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everyone in the cabin has to buy that
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package so if there's two of you in a
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cab and you both have to buy the package
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and if you're traveling with kids in
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their cabin they also have to buy the
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basic soda package which is about seven
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ninety five dollars per person per day
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or per kid per day so that could be
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quite a big on cost of course you can
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buy a drinks ad hoc but beverages
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alcoholic beverages special ad coffees
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like I mentioned earlier Starbucks not
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included within your fare and that could
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be a lot of extra money as you've heard
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from the cost of the premium package
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there the fifth area that's not included
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is what I kind of call their flagship
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their big kind of activities and events
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on board so though you get access to
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lots of the facilities there's a whole
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bunch of things that you will pay extra
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for if they're on board the ship so for
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example they have speedways so this is
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the racetracks when you go in these
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great go-karts you'll pay nine ninety
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five for an eight minute lap you can buy
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it I'm gonna today pass which would cost
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twenty nine ninety five per person or
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you can pay for a seven-day cruise an
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unlimited pass for just under two
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hundred dollars if you want to play
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laser tag you also have to pay for that
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if that's onboard the ship and the
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prices were fairly similar to using the
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Speedway
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so the prices were nine ninety five for
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a 10-minute session you could buy
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unlimited pass for the whole cruise for
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again just under two hundred dollars if
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the cruise ship has the Galaxy pavilion
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so this is where you have lots of three
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and four D rides that you can go on
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again you have to pay for those you
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either buy a pass or you pay for those
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individually they also have a Formula
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one simulator and again you'll pay extra
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for that they then also have a premium
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area where you can go and have a bit of
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peace and quiet but sort of like a
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sanctuary that does have an extra charge
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as well so those big sort of flagship
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things that you often see advertised on
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some of the big news ships you do have
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to pay
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to actually go to and use those the
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fifth thing you have to pay for which is
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pretty similar to pretty much all cruise
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lines is short excursions so if you want
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to go out on organized short excursions
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with the cruise line you will pay extra
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for those and the price of those varies
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dramatically from you know fifty sixty
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dollars for some simple tours right up
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to several hundred dollars if you're
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doing something much more big and
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ambitious so shore excursions aren't
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cost and that can be quite a big on cost
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if you're going on excursions every
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single day so if you're traveling with
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the family of a couple of kids it could
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be a lot of money that you need to
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budget for the sixth key cost is
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internet access so they do have two
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levels of internet access if you want to
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be able to stream or just do simple
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Wi-Fi internet stuff on board for a
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limited access to just do normal things
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like some browsing a social media email
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it differs a little bit whether you buy
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it in advance which is like cheaper or
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on board so you'll pay about twenty six
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dollars per day for that unlimited
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access if you buy an advance you'll pay
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about thirty dollars if you buy it on
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the ship if you want to do streaming so
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you want to watch things like Netflix or
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Amazon Prime or any of those streaming
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services or you want to do things like
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FaceTime with home and know that it's
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going to be very reliable you might want
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about the stream package that then if
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you pre book it before you go that costs
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around about at the time of recording
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around about thirty dollars if you buy
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in advance per day and that's up to
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nearly thirty five dollars if you buy it
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on board so there could be a big on cost
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of anything out connected you want to be
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the next cost is exercise classes so of
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course you can use the gym for free but
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if you want to go into classes you'll
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pay extra for classes and though that's
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pretty consistent with other cruise
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lines the next thing you'll pay for is
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babysitting services so if you want your
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baby actually babysat where you go out
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in the evening the other thing you will
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pay for though the kids clubs are free
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if you want your kids supervised at
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lunchtime because they closed at
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lunchtime for an hour and they're closed
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for an hour in the evenings if you want
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your kids looked after at those
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particular times where the youth club
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hosts will take your kids for dinner you
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do pay for that the time recording it's
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about six dollars per kid per sessions
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if you want them to go to lunch time so
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for example if you're going
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an all-day excursion and you want your
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kids looked after for the whole day
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because you went back for lunchtime it's
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about six dollars per kid full lunch
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time and again that same thing for the
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hour in the evening so it's not a huge
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cost but you will pay extra for that and
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for babysitting the ninth area is around
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whole bunch of services so obviously if
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you send stuff away for the laundry or
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you end up using the Medical Center you
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will pay extra for those and again
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that's pretty consistent with other
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cruise lines and then of course the
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other area is shopping so if you want to
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buy photos you want to use the on-board
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shops to buy souvenirs you want to buy
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art you want to use the spa or salon or
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you want to go to the casino all those
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things of course are not included within
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the fair and that's true of every single
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Cruise Line you don't have those thrown
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in the fair as nice as that would be
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Norwegian Cruise Lines is renowned for
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its freestyle approach to cruising lots
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of choice of things to do many of those
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come with a price tag so if you're going
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on a Norwegian cruise bear in mind that
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you might get a great deal but there may
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be a whole bunch of extra things you
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need to do or you need to plan your
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cruise to basically not do any of those
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kind of extra things which will be
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pretty hard because you're going to want
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to do some of those without a shadow of
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a doubt remember I have many more cruise
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