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12 Things People Get Thrown Off A Cruise For
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Jan 29, 2025
Discover the 12 ways that you could be kicked off a cruise ship. The main causes of people being thrown off their cruising vacation ship. Some will even stop you boarding the ship in the first place - and being kicked off before you board or even before the ship has departed. I will reveal some of the more unexpected causes of cruise passengers being ejected from a ship and the most common reasons that some cruising trips have been ended early. Subscribe and get a new video every week to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on both land and at sea. Support the channel by looking for your next cruise and best deals on CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://www.jdoqocy.com/click-8330795-10511118 Consider becoming a Tips For Travellers Patron. Find out more at https://www.patreon.com/tipsfortravellers Follow Tips For Travellers on: - Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/garybembridge - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers - Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge
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hi I'm Gary beverage and this is another
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of my tips for Travis in this episode
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I'm gonna tell you the 12 ways that you
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could find yourself being kicked off a
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cruise but before I do that remember
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please subscribe and every single week
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you'll get another video packed full of
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tips and advice to help you make more of
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your travel time and money so one of the
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twelve ways that you can find yourself
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being kicked off a cruise well first of
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all you may find yourself never even
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getting on the cruise because if you
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don't have the right documentation which
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these days increasingly is a passport a
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valid passport normally with six months
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still to go before it expires and often
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depending on where you're going visas
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some Cruise Lines will not let you get
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onboard without the right visas if
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you're going somewhere exotic because
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they're not allowed to actually venture
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into that space carrying passengers who
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do not have a visa to land so absolutely
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make sure that you've got your passport
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and before you go check do you need any
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visas the second thing is also one way
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you may find yourself not even getting
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on the cruise so being kicked off before
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you've even got on and that's a few
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refused to go through security cruise
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lines now have Airport type security and
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everything gets screened including
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yourself and if you refuse to go through
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that you will not be allowed to get on
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the cruise the third one is kind of
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obvious if you try and smuggle onboard
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anything that's either illegal or
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prohibited by the cruise line you're
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likely to find yourself kicked off the
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cruise so some obvious things for
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example recreational drugs there's many
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cases of people being caught with
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recreational drugs on board and they
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have been thrown off a cruise but there
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also may be things that the cruise line
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does not allow you to bring so for
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example many cruise lines are clamping
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down on alcohol they will not let you
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bring onboard alcohol if they find
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you're trying to bring a lot of alcohol
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on board you may find yourself kicked
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off and that could even be trying to
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return from an excursion with lots of
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booze but also make sure that you're not
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bringing on board anything prohibited so
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for example most cruise lines will not
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let you bring a drone on board most
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cases with things like alcohol and
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drones the cruise line will nor we
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confiscate those and hand them back at
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the end of the cruise the fourth way you
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can get kicked off a cruise and this is
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becoming more and more common is if you
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refuse to take part in the muster drill
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now by law cruise lines have to do
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muster drill and if you refuse to go to
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the muster the cruise line is likely to
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throw you
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the crews you absolutely have to go and
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on many cruise lines even if you're
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doing back to that cruisers they require
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you to go to every single muster you
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must go to the muster station have the
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security briefing and you also learn
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about evacuation procedures and of
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course you also learn how to put on your
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life jacket now the fifth way you could
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get kicked off a cruise is if you do not
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pay attention to the all aboard time
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there's many videos of people running
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along the key side as a ship departs
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ships will leave on time so unless
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you're on a cruise line organized
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excursion and it's running late the ship
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will wait for you so if you're doing
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your own thing in a port and you're not
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back by the audible time it's very
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unlikely the shipper wait it will leave
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without you and you'll find yourself
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stranded in a port now it is possible
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sometimes to rejoin the cruise at your
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own cost and your own expense it can be
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quite a hassle if you don't have things
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like your passport and there's a chance
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that the cruise line will just disembark
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you completely if you're really
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concerned about it always go on a cruise
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line organized excursion because they
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will always wait for late excursions the
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sixth way is an unfortunate one but if
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you fall ill or injure yourself and
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actually require a hospital level of
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treatment you will be disembarked from
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the cruise so the cruise lines have
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medical centers and they can deal with
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everyday things but if you get really
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ill and need sort of hospital level
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attention or they're concerned about you
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or you injure yourself you will be
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disembarked at the port now very
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important this is going to be at your
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own cost so you absolutely need to make
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sure that you have travel insurance when
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you go on a cruise that is going to
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cover you if you have to leave a ship
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because you're injured or ill because
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you're gonna have to cover your hospital
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costs you can have to cover getting back
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home you might have to cover costs of
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people traveling with you to stay with
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you so I've been on many cruises where
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you'll see people being disembarked for
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medical reasons one definite way to get
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yourself kicked off a cruise is to throw
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something overboard especially if it's
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cigarette butts because they are
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extremely dangerous there are very
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strict regulations about throwing things
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overboard you can throw nothing
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overboard whatsoever so even the olden
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days where you used to practice things
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like shooting golf balls off the back of
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a ship we used to throw streamers off
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ships you are not allowed to put
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anything over the side of the ship and
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you will be thrown off a cruise if
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you're caught doing that very much the
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security cameras
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all over the place particular index and
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if they see you throwing things
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overboard you will be thrown off the
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cruise the eighth way of being thrown
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off a cruise is pranks so if you joke
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about a manner of a board or anything
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related to bomb threats you will be
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thrown off a cruise the resources and
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the effort behind man overboard and bomb
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threats is enormous and anyone joking
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around and pranking you will find
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yourself thrown off the cruise if you
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break the law either in the port or on
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the ship you will be thrown off the
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cruise so let me give us examples I've
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been on cruise before where actually
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some of the cruise some of the dances on
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board were caught shoplifting in one of
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the stores in a port they were thrown
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off the cruise mid contract the same is
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true of passengers so if you do anything
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in a port you're caught by the police or
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reported the cruise line will throw you
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off the same on board so if you're
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caught thieving on board or doing
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something inappropriate on board you
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will also be bundled off another very
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important thing to consider is underage
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drinking many cruise lines will throw
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you off a cruise if they catch you
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encouraging and facilitating underage
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drinking that's particularly important
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because on some cruise lines and based
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on where you're cruising they will
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follow the u.s. rule on drinking so
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people have to be over the age of 21
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other cruise lines particularly when
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they're in Europe will follow the more
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European approach of drinking is allowed
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over 18 but if you're caught buying
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drinks and allowing underage kids to
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drink you're very likely to be thrown
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off a cruise so the next one and this is
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why the get squalor of publicity in the
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newspapers and on television is being
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disruptive on board so if you have some
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big Rao some big five sickly a punch up
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fight you'll find yourself bundled up
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and chucked off on the next port there
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have been some very spectacular reports
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about fights breaking out on a cruise
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ship for example there was an Australian
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family on a Carnival Cruise who got in a
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big fight on board the whole family was
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collected together and thrown off at the
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next port there have been examples of
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lounger rage where people got really
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irate at people hugging lounges on board
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which is big bugbear of cruises and
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they've got a big fight about a throne
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lounges around they have been thrown off
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there's also a couple that once got very
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high rates of elf pee
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being anti-semitic and solid a
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four-letter trade they got bundled up
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and thrown off at the next port
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so again abusive behavior and fighting
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is not tolerated now the next example of
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being thrown off is something that I've
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seen a couple of times and this is where
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people break a curfew during a norovirus
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outbreak and obviously norovirus
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outbreaks do happen occasionally on
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cruise ship not as much as people think
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they do but one of the ways that the
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cruise lines deal and try and get to
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grip with the norovirus outbreak is
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people who have the symptoms are
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confined to the cabin and there could be
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confined to the cabin for a number of
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days if you break that curfew and stop
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going around the ship there is a very
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strong chance that the captain will
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throw you off the cruise and I've seen
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it happen twice on two different cruises
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where people have been disembarked
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because they didn't stick to the curfew
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one of the ways that cruise lines try
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and deal with norovirus outbreak is by
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ensuring that people who have the
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symptoms are out about the ship is
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spreading it so if you do break the
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curfew on norovirus you could well find
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yourself being disembarked so what is
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the twelfth way of being thrown of a
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ship very simply being rude abusive or
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aggressive to the captain and the crew
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so even if you're uptight and upset
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about something that's going on the
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cruise be very cautious about how you
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deal with it be firm be assertive not
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bang the table do not swear do not get
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aggressive because if you are seen as
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being abusive and aggressive towards the
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crew the captain has the right to
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actually disembark you and within the
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actual cruise contract which you approve
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when you buy your ticket and pay for
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your ticket you've agreed not to be
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abusive and rude and aggressive towards
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the stuff so no matter how frustrated
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you are try and be calm try and be
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assertive and do not be rude and
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aggressive there's a surprisingly large
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amount of ways that you can be thrown
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off a cruise these are the twelve most
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common ones that I've come across if you
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have any other examples of course where
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you know people are being kicked off a
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cruise and they're not included in these
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I'd love to hear from you if you've
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enjoyed this video I'd love it of course
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if you watch many more of my tips of
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travels videos because they'll help you
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hopefully make much more of your
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precious travel time and money on both
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land and at sea
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