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9 Things You Can Take From A Cruise Without Getting Into Trouble
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Jan 28, 2025
What can you take home from your cruise without any fear you're doing the wrong thing, either morally or legally? This question hit me while I was packing at the end of a recent Cunard Queen Anne Cruise, as in the disembarkation letter a section was highlighted with a list of items that I was not allowed to take home, warning that if I did there would be penalties. I did a double take, as it included items I often take home from a cruise. It got me questioning what we can take from a cruise these days without any fear of getting into trouble. For bonus & exclusive content (including videos, articles, eBooks and more) become a channel member or patron: --------------------------------------------------- * Patreon Patron: https://www.patreon.com/tipsfortravellers * YouTube Channel Member: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qE-Obs2ocdmPXY0TIU-cw/join Check out my cruise-themed T-shirts and products: --------------------------------------------------- * T-Shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore * Mugs, notebooks, hoodies etc: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/tipsfortravellers?ref_id=22354 My social media: --------------------------------------------------- * Blog: https://www.tipsfortravellers.com * Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge * Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers * Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/garybembridge * LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bembridge
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what can you take home from your cruise
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without any fear you're doing the wrong
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thing either morally or legally this
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question rarely hid me while I was
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packing at the end of a recent card
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queenan Cruise as in the disembarkation
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letter a section was highlighted with a
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list of items that I was not allowed to
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take warning that if I did there would
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be penalties I did a double take as it
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included items I often take home from a
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cruise it got me questioning what we can
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take from a Cruise these days without
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any fear of getting into trouble
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obviously there are things we know are
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wrong and blatantly illegal to take like
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those passengers who attempted to take
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$122,800 worth of artwork they'd removed
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from the art gallery on their Carnival
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Legend cruise it was clearly wrong
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anyway welcome aboard I'm Gary B and
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here's what I've discovered you and I
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can safely take home starting with what
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we can take from the cabin without being
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charged or getting into trouble now I
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always used to take home from Cruis
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those miniature toiletry bottles in the
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bathroom and across the years I've taken
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home some great toiletry Brands
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including latan Bulgari aqua deparma and
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Molton Brown I would take them home to
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use when traveling or to give to my mama
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as little momento from my cruise however
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now the cruise lines have shifted into
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larger refill bottles lines like cod do
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not let me take those home so if I took
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their large P Halon toiletry bottles
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home they were warned I would be charged
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in that disembarkation l so while I did
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not pack the toiletries there were
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though a couple of other things in my
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cabin that I did take home first some
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bottles of champagne and wine when I
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boarded there was a fancy welcome bottle
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of Laurent perer champagne in the cabin
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and during the cruise as a diamond
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loyalty member I got sent another bottle
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of fancy sparkling wine now I don't
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drink alcohol but I packed both of those
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to take home to my sister who l loves
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champagne that is perfectly fine to do
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also as I was cruising in a queen's
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Grill Suite as a birthday treat Cruise
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one of the perks is to choose two large
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bottles of alcohol to have in the cabin
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now in the past I've chosen a bottle of
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lure like dambury to take to my mother
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and a bottle of Bailey to take to my
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sister once again on this cruise I
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decided to take those home now if you do
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have included wines and drinks you can
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theoretically take those home because
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they're all
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part of your package obviously within
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reason the other thing that I love
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taking home from a cruise and I did from
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this one are the Branded pens many
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cruise lines have cabins with beautiful
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branded pens as Cod did along with a
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small Cod branded pad I always take
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those home because I love to have those
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as momentos and that again is perfectly
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fine now on kunard I even had some fancy
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personalized stationer to take home as
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was was traveling in Queens Grill you
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can ask for right writing paper with
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your name and cabin number to be printed
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I did and I took that home but most
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Cruisers that I've been on they have
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branded envelopes writing paper and
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postcards in the cabin which you can
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take home without any issues partly of
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course because the cruise lines want us
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to be using for example those postcards
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to help promote the cruise line another
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item I've had on previous cruises that
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I've taken home of some premium lines
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like Windstar and Disney are the little
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cable tidies that the cabin St used to
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tidy the charger cables for things like
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my mobile phone they're really rather
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handy to have at home and when traveling
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also on some premium lines like silver
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sea I was on recently they left glass
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cleaning cloths in the cabin which are
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also handy to use at home I always take
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home with me all the daily programs Port
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guides and leaflets I love collecting
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those I enjoy going back over the years
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and looking at past Cruisers and I use
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them of course to research some of the
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videos that I make but I couldn't take
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home from my kunard queenan cabin
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without being charged with things like
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the beautiful fluffy dressing gowns
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branded umbrella or binoculars I could
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though ask to buy those however I could
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take home the slippers those are single
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person use slippers and although I
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generally don't use them after to myself
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it's also one of the things I used to
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take home for my mom she used to love
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getting those little slippers uh from
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the different Cruisers again as a
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momento to wear around the house
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although I couldn't take home the sheets
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and the pillows did did you know that
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several Cruise Lines will actually sell
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you those for example I was on Oceania
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recently and they left leaflets in the
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cabin on how to order the bed and
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bedding for home other Cruise Lines
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including liac princess do that as well
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next I want to talk about what you can
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take from around the ship without any
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charges or trouble one of the things
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that I take back from many Cruisers are
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shopping freebies most cruise lines
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while they're in Alaska the Caribbean
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and the Mediterranean have onboard
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shopping advisors now they run a program
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to encourage and entice us to visit very
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specific stores in Port such as Fe
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jewelry diamonds International D color
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change clothing and so on now these
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companies have paid fees to be part of
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that program so those advisers often
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place leaflets and small freebie items
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in the cabern on embarcation days they
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then run shopping talks during the crews
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where they hand up more freebies now
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these tend to be charms to collect or
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simple necklace t-shirts and so on then
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in Port the shops on the program will
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hand out more items just for visiting
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them again like charms or earrings they
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can be fun to collect are they worth a
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lot no probably not but you can take
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them back from a cruise without any
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concerns at all the other thing which I
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like to collect and take home are the
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daily puzzle crossword and suduku sheets
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I never have time to do them every
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single day on a cruise so I collect them
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up each day to do at home I used to also
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by the way hand some of them on to
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members of my family who are probably
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more Adept certainly things like soduku
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than me and they really enjoyed getting
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them when I came back from a cruise the
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other thing which is also a little tip
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is the casino goes through loads of
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packs of cards and many Cruise Lines
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will give those away so if you go to
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either the front desk or the Casino Host
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desk and ask if you can have some of the
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packs of cards that they no longer need
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they will often give you those to take
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home now in the past you could actually
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build a really nice little collection of
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Cruis line branded playing cards so
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unfortunately most Cruise Lines today
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seem to be using just regular card packs
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another thing you can take off a cruise
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ship are the casino chips though as
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casino chips can only be used on board
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the ship they are basically worthless
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off it so it may make less sense however
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I've met many gamblers that like to
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collect a casino chip from each ship
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they cruise on as a kind of momento they
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of course a costume but if you collect
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say low value chips of a dollar or so
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it's not too costly of a momento and
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souvenir talking of souvenirs some lines
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do give these that you can basically
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take home the main one for me is on H
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America which on many of their Cruisers
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give guest a commemorative tile it's a
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Del style tile it's linked to their
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origins in Holland and I have a small
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collection of those building up from the
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various cruises I've been on many cruise
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lines also include commemorative or
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collectible glasses or mugs as part of
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some of the drinks packages for example
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a refillable soda cup now those at the
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end of the Cruise you can take home on
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some lines like some of the river cruise
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lines I've been on and lines like
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Oceania and Viking that have removed
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plastic bottles they provide a
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refillable water bottle and refill
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stations around the ship I can take the
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bottle home if I want to at the end of
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the cruise I've also been to events
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where the line has given me a
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commandment of glass to take home too
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for example on a recent H America South
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America trip I was invited to go to a
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table hosted by one of the senior
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officers and we all given a
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commemorative glass shot glass to take
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home at the end of that dinner the other
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thing that some Cruise Lines do for
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example on Viking Cruise Lines is use a
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device known as a quiet Vox on
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excursions these are little devices
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where when you're on tour the tour guide
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speaks into a little microphone and it
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transmits so you can hear the guide It's
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really handy in really busy noisy
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tourist places for example now they all
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come with a set of earphones which again
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I can take away because they are a one
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person use earphone when I do a Hop On
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Hop off bus import they also have those
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as well now I often take these home and
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I keep those as a backup earphone in
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case I lose or forget to pack mine so
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for example I've actually used them in
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the gym to plug into a stationary bike
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to listen to television or music while
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working out so they're kind of Handy to
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have and take with you another thing I
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often like to take home is brochures at
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the queenan cruise future Cruise offices
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there had many myriads of brochures of
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future cruises including for newly
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launched itineries so I brought them
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home to plan my travels of course
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another thing I must take away is my
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cruise card while on the cruise it gets
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me on off the ship it opens my cabin
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door and I use it to charge things but
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once I leave the ship at the end of the
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cruise as a line doesn't want it I
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basically have to take it home with me
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it becomes a mentor and I know that many
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people collect them as reminders of the
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trips they have done is there anything
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that I've forgotten that people need to
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know about if so leave that in the
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comments but before you do that why
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don't you join me over in this video
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where look at the things that most
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Cruisers have no idea their cabin stward
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can do for them starting with the one
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that surprises people most see you over
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there
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