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Hapag-Lloyd Europa 2 has been given the top ratings since its launch in 2013 and is seen by many passengers and cruise writers as the best luxury ship in the world. It holds 500 guests and has all outside cabins. Catering premium cruisers it has plush boutique hotel style decor. The ship is improved and updated every two years to keep it looking great and catering for the prestige traveller. I toured the ship in October 2017 just after some of the biggest changes and talk about and show these in the video.
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in this video we're going to explore
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what is probably the most luxurious
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cruise ship in the world hi I'm Gary
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beverage of tips for travelers I'm going
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to take you through you Roper - for the
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last five years it's had top ratings in
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the authoritative Berlitz cruising and
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cruise ship guide the Arobin - is part
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of hepatic lloyd which is part of the
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TUI Travel Group the Europa - holds 500
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guests the ship was launched in 2013 and
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every two years the Europa 2 goes into
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drydock the ship is tweaked refined and
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updated one of the biggest changes
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happened in September 2017 and when the
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ship came out in October which is when I
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toured the ship there were many changes
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and I'm going to show you those changes
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during the course of this video so let's
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go and take a look at the bars and
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lounges on Europa - the belvedere went
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through a major revamp in 2017 it's a
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gorgeous venue up on deck 9 there's a
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library in here there's lots of seating
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space there's music in the evening and
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one of the big attractions is the great
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barista bar we can get coffees teas huge
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range of teas and also there's a massive
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selection of phenomenal cakes and treats
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to eat another great venue on Europa 2
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is Sansa bar
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Sansa bar is based on a very famous
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beach bar in Germany which is very
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well-known to German guess it's very
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upmarket it's a great VIP beach bar and
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they've created the Sansa bar onboard
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which again is a great venue very
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popular and has a really super kind of
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Beach feel to it - big changes in the
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2017 revamp are on deck for the first of
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these is the Collins bar this is a gin
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bar and as you can see it's a slightly
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quirky slightly unusual venue it has
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already interesting take all with great
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murals very amusing murals and a great
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selection of drinks and cocktails
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crossed away from Collins is a great
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venue called Club - this used to be the
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jazz club but because it's not only jazz
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music there's a wider range of music
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takes place here so as you can see club
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- it's a great venue for live music it's
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a really vibe
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modern looking venue with great decor
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and a beautiful bar really love the look
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of the bar so let's go take a look at
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the dining venues what's important is
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there is their main dining room and this
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is the main dining room here which is
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called the Ville tamiya
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great feature the dining room is it's
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open seated dining which means you can
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go anytime you want and fifty percent of
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the tables are for two people so if you
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just want some privacy you want to just
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be with your partner there are lots of
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choices of seats for two it's a
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beautiful venue
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all the speciality restaurants are
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included in the first let's take a look
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at the key ones the Italian is called
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Serenissima
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as you can see it's got beautiful Murano
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glass chandeliers beautiful tables and
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great Italian food across the way from
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that is a venue which I really love the
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look of called elements this is an Asian
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restaurant beautiful venue and a
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fantastic menu now the most popular
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special ed two restaurant on board is
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called tarragon so as you can see it
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looks a bit like a French bistro inside
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very very popular in fact it's so
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popular they've actually extended the
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size of this to cater for more people so
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let's go take a look at things to do
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what are the actual facilities well
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first of all there's the theater this is
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a magnificent venue as you can see it's
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sort of a horseshoe shape so you get
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great views of what's going on on the
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stage the important thing about the
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shows are new ropa too because it caters
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for an international audience is all the
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shows are designed to not rely too much
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on language so there will be lots of
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songs dance musicians took to the
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Salette style shows editions a really
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wide range of different types of shows
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there's a beautiful pool deck which has
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a 15 metre long pool which up until
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recently was the biggest pool on board
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any cruise ship now the ocean spa is a
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great venue as major revamp happened in
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2017 in listened to the usual spa
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treatments it has a really large gym
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with lots of equipment and classes
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there's also of course beautiful
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treatment rooms including some for
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couples and of course there is the usual
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facilities like steam room sauna for
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those of you that like golf there's also
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two golf simulators which are great fun
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and there is always on board a golf pro
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to help you know fine-tune your golf and
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also a lot the port's that are called on
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there are golfing excursions so what
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about the accommodation onboard Europa -
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well of course there is a very luxurious
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accommodation but what I'm going to show
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you is the entry level room so all of
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the cabins on board you over to our
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outside cabins
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and all have balconies this is the entry
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level cabin and as you can see it's
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pretty magnificent beautiful plush de
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coeur
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very stylish these are not massive
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cabins but only a very generous size
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because para might it is a small ship
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and any caters for 500 guests it has a
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separate closet you know with huge
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amounts of storage space in the bathroom
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what I like is has a separate shower add
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a separate bath so this is the basic
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room and from then upwards it goes right
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up to huge big kind of palatial suites
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but the basic room pretty magnificent
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another important thing about Europa 2
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is often on board there will be meetings
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conferences and at times the whole ship
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is actually chartered by a company for
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meetings so they've added a couple of
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key features including this conference
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room and also across the way there is a
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studio for larger meetings also up here
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on deck 9 is the cruise sales office
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so there's plane waiting space and you
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know here you can look at all different
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brochures and book your future cruises
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so there you are that's you wrote it -
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it's a beautiful ship it has magnificent
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day code feels pretty much like a
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boutique hotel it still largely has
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German guests but a growing and very
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fast appeal to international guests and
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the ship was designed for the
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international guests certainly have a
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blog want to attract more and more
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international guests on to Europa - so
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language onboard is German and English
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hopefully you've enjoyed that tour of
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