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You Will NEED These When Visiting A Cruise Port. Here's Why
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Jan 28, 2025
There are 9 key things you need to pack and take out with you in every cruise port, whether you are self-touring or going on an excursion or tour. I take a look at the 9 essential items to pack for your day out in a cruise port to cover eventualities and everyday things you will face off the ship in a cruise port. Do you have any to add? 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 78 cruises at time of making this video. Follow Tips For Travellers on:
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what are the essentials that you should
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take out with you when you leave the
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ship in port
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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cruising tips for travelers I want to
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talk about nine things that I think you
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should never leave the ship without when
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you're in port when we head out in port
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on an excursion or self exploring we
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don't assume that things are gonna go
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wrong we assume you're gonna have a
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great time however that's not always the
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case there's probably four key things
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that I've seen go wrong either to myself
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or other people import and little tips
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I'm going to give you our ways of making
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sure that you ease your way through
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those and make them stress-free the
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first of those is you might get
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separated from your excursion or your
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traveling party I was on a cruise
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recently we head out on excursion and
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what we hadn't realized is a lady with
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the young child had actually got
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separated and then was stranded in a
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country where she didn't speak the
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language and she was completely lost and
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in a massive panic the second thing that
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could happen of course is you could be
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running late and in danger of missing
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the ship so I know some people again on
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another cruise recently where what had
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happened is they're gone of exploring
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and they'd lost track of time they son
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realized they were lost and they needed
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to get back to the ship before the sail
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away time and they didn't know what to
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do these tips will help you solve that
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the third thing is you might have some
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kind of injuries so I have actually been
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on a cruise a couple of years ago where
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I fell really badly and broke my ankle
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I've also been on a cruise recently
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where we were in Honolulu and one of the
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passengers headed off the self exploring
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that she got knocked over and broke
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their leg and the last one is you could
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fall prey to some sort of crime so we've
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all been on excursions I'm sure where
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you found people to being pickpocketed
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or mugged or something like that so
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these little tips will help you deal
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with any eventuality or problem you
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might have when you're out and about so
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what are the nine things that you should
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be watching out for all the first is the
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obvious things of things that the Cruise
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Line tells you to take first of all you
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need to take your cruise card because
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that's the thing that gets you on and
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off the ship secondly you need to take
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the tickets for the tour if you're
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heading out on a tour of some kind you
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might need some tickets and of course
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you need any tour specific clothing with
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you so if you're going swimming in you
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need beach towels you need those shoes
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or you're heading off hiking or whatever
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it is you can only do specifically so
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those are kind of the obvious thing so
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what are the less of his things the
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single most important item that you can
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take on an excursion and even if you
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forget all the other ones that I tell
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you this is the single most important
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item you either take the daily program
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with you or you make sure you've taken a
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photograph of the daily program and
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really importantly if you're on an ocean
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cruise particularly who the port agent
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is if you're on a river cruise it's
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probably more likely to be the telephone
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number of the ship this is absolutely
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central for a couple reasons first of
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all it reminds you of the get back time
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the time you need to your back but if
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anything goes wrong so any of those four
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things happen to you you have the cruise
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agents number these people are connected
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to the ship all day they are used to
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every single kind of thing going wrong
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and they will be your absolute Savior no
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matter what happens to you so absolutely
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make sure so if everything else goes
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wrong you have that also on that
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particular document will also be the
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port address so I know a couple that
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were in a place where there were
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actually two different cruise ports and
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they had got a bit separate a bit lost
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there jumped in a taxi miles and miles
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away been taken to the port it was the
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wrong report so also it will have on
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there the actual port that you are
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docked at they're very important the
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third thing that I like to take with me
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is government-issued photo ID now in
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some ports you have to take it with you
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I personally like to take my driving
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license rather than my password I don't
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like to have my passport out with me
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because if I lose my driving is not as
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catastrophic as losing my passport so
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government-issued photo ID is really
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important because that will not only
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help you if you have any problems but
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even if you do miss the ship or have to
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try and get yourself to catch up with
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the ship having photo ID will get
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through a lot of those barriers also on
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some ships depending on the itinerary
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they also keep your passport because
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you're going through lots of different
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immigration things so you would have
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your passport so I strongly recommend
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taking photo ID with you it's going to
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really be extremely helpful and as I
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mentioned it is also required in some
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places and some ports what I do do
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though is I like to have a copy of my
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passport so I have a photo
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off of my parcel but it was up in the
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cloud you know so on with its Google
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Drive or Dropbox or wherever you like to
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store it I also like to have a picture
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of my passport so if anything does
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happen I can also access my passport but
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copy of my passport either on my phone
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or I can get it downloaded from the
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cloud so that's what I also make sure I
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do because then you also have your photo
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ID and you have a copy of your passport
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details that's going to help you many
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many times if you get into a particular
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the next thing that I recommend you
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ensure you take out with you is some
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kind of money or some way of paying for
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something a couple of things that are
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really really important linked to this
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are I like to take out a couple of small
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notes of the local currency so if you
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have things I don't know even using
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toilets probably toilets for example or
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you just need to pay a couple of dollars
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to get a taxi back to where you're going
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or you need to get a bus or a metro or
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something so having a couple of small
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notes is a really good idea if you don't
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want to do that particularly because you
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lots of different currencies the other
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thing I recommend you take is a debit
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card because in you can go to an ATM and
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withdraw cash if you need it so debit
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card or credit card is really helpful to
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have out with you
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the other thing that I strongly
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recommend you have access to again you
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might be a picture on your phone or in
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the cloud is copies of your travel
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insurance details and particularly the
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assistance numbers so most travel
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insurance will have an assistance
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company and a number where if you have
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any problems you've lost something
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you've been injured or whatever though
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that detail is really really helpful and
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particularly you have to go to a
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hospital or Medical Centre and you need
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those details so having access to that
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only bother taking with you but knowing
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that you're on your phone or you can
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download it is also really important but
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having a bit of local currency is really
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really helpful even if you want to buy a
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little bits and pieces in the market
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also when it comes to money the other
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thing that I like to have is an app
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which is a currency converter on my
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phone I you know particularly not really
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good and it's a difficult exchange rate
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so if you do want to go buy something or
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in a market and haggling you don't get
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ripped off so I've done things before
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where I've gone and bought some
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sunglasses for example and all these are
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a good deal and I've got home realize
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I've paid almost double what they would
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have cost me at the airport or at home
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because I've got the exchange rate wrong
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so bear in mind you know in markets and
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shops really big tourist areas they're
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pretty nifty and nimble at playing with
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the exchange rate and confusing it so
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having a laugh with a currency converter
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is a great idea
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so you can just check what things
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actually cost the fifth thing that I
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like to take with me is my mobile phone
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for all sorts of reasons first of all it
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is if I have an emergency I can contact
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people I can also put apps on there so
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Metro apps or if I need to call an uber
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or the currency converter house talking
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about or something you can get guides
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all sorts of things on the mobile phone
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but very important where they'll also
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like to take is one of those charges so
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not a plug in charge of one of those
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battery pack booster charges because if
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I have a problem or my battery runs out
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then obviously I can use that to keep it
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charged so I like to know that I've got
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my phone with me at all times and it's
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nicely charged of course for many people
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your phone also becomes your camera
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nowadays because the quality is
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increasing nowadays particularly I'm
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heading out on excursions and if I'm not
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doing videoing for the channel or
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whatever I just use my mobile phone
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nowadays for photographs and so that's
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also a key things have now of course
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because we're taking all these bits and
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pieces that I'm recommending the other
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thing that I always make sure I do is
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have a safe place to keep all the stuff
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so some people like to have those little
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bum bags or fanny packs order they're
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called in where are you listening to
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this from or when those things you put
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under your shirt or whatever where you
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can store things the thing that I also
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like to take particular I'm heading out
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to the beach is one of these sort of wet
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bag things now the reason I take that is
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either of course you can wear it when
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you go into the sea but what I actually
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do with the direct put things like my
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mobile phone my cash my cards my cruise
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card and I actually bury it in the sand
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underneath my towel and particular when
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I'm cruising by myself or even with my
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partner we want to go in the sea
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together then it's really a good idea to
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have this so I use this a lot when I'm
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hitting in the Caribbean or beach places
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burying my stuff of course if someone
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comes along and starts trying to dig it
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up if they've actually seen you burying
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it which is probably unlikely it's going
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to cause a lot of attention the other
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thing if you are going to take a little
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rucksack with you make sure it's one of
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those ruck sets that are quite hard to
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get into or make sure you put your
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valuables sort of inside the bag because
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pickpockets very nimble at unzipping
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you're the easy to access pockets so
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make sure you've got some ways safe to
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keep your valuables
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the next thing that I always take with
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me and may seem a little bit fussy and
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fidelity but I like to take a couple of
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first aid things with me so in my little
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rucksack I like to have a couple of
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headache pills but some anti-diarrheal
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some if I'm heading out on a cataract or
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oh I see maybe some seasickness tablets
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but also one things that I would
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recommend is if you are on some sort of
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medication which you absolutely have to
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take at a certain time or every single
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day maybe just take one little dose of
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that or two doses of that in your stuff
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when you head out so if you do have some
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kind of issue or you're delayed you
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don't forget stressed or struggle to get
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a copy of a medication the other thing
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that I'd recommend if you are on
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medication is again take a picture of
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either prescription or the little
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bottles that you have your medicine in
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so people can see what it is and again
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I'd have on your phone or up though into
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the cloud so if you do have some issues
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and you need to have medication because
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you're stuck out then you do know
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exactly what it is and you can show
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people the details of that of course
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within that whole sort of first-aid kind
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of area obvious things like sunscreen
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insect repellent that kind of stuff you
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know I was recently on a cruise and I
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hadn't packed my insect repellent and
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got stung and bitten like crazy because
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I'd forgotten to chuck that into my bag
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so again thinking a little bit about the
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environment and the situation you're in
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and make sure you pack things like
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sunscreen insect repellant whatever that
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is gonna be another really really
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important thing that I always like to
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take out with me is water from the ship
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so either what increase it of course is
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one of those refillable water bottles or
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often you can are given or depending on
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the cruise line you might buy a bottle
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of water that means that you know that
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when you head out it's actually safe to
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drink the water where you're heading and
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you just have that reassurance also it's
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very important to keep hydrated of
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course so always take out some kind of
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water with you some people's like to
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take out snacks as well but certainly
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water water water really really
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important
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of course then if you are the sort of
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person that likes to take a camera out
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to take pictures make sure you've got
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spare batteries and SD cards there's
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nothing more frustrating your head out
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on an excursion particular it's one of
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those scenic all-day excursions and you
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finally your battery runs flat in your
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camera or you've run out of space on
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your SD card it's all happened to us and
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it's incredibly frustrating because you
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then deleting other good pictures to get
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different pictures of things around you
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so really important
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make sure you've got those kind of
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backups if you're heading out on that
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port excursion don't just head out easy
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breezy and not think about those
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eventualities that could happen by a few
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simple things which soon become really
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habit if you do have the unfortunate
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position of having something happened to
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you like one of those four things I
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mentioned at the beginning you're gonna
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be able to deal with it really really
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easily I have loads more videos packed
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or the cruising advice and tips so why
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don't you watch another one of those
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right now
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