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you're about to discover the unusual
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crazy and even bizarre ways that people
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smuggle alcohol onto a cruise
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I'm Gary Bemidji and this is another of
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my tips for travelers in this video I'm
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going to talk about the lengths that
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people will go to to smuggle alcohol on
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board a cruise ship now why do people do
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well simply because the cost of drinking
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on board a ship is getting more and more
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expensive I'm not saying that you should
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be smuggling alcohol on board a cruise
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ship it's just something that I've seen
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happening more and more probably the
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longest and most established way of
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smuggling booze on board is by taking
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existing toiletries and putting booze in
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them the most popular of these is
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mouthwash so what people are doing is
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buying a mouthwash emptying it out
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cleaning it out putting a clear liquid
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in and then using food coloring dye to
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make it look like an existing bottle of
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there are also some mouthwash bottles
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which are not clear and those are even
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more popular because it's even harder to
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see the product inside and of course
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getting the color of the mouthwash
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looking right is a real challenge but
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certainly using existing toiletries
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emptying them out and replacing them is
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a long established way of doing it and
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is the most popular of all of these for
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those people that don't want to go as
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far as using existing toiletries there's
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a whole range of bottles that you can
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buy that recreate toiletries that come
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an empty they also have little seals
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that you can then put on the top so it
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looks like unopened bottles so the wide
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range of bottles that look like
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establish an existing toiletries that
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you can then fill with alcohol things
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I've come across for example are
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sunscreen bottles normal toiletry
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bottles shampoo you can even buy
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deodorant cans which you can fill with
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alcohol and even if you want to go a
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little bit further there are products
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that look like tampons another very long
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and well established way of bringing
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booze on board a cruise ship is what's
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known as Rum Runners these are basically
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little plastic pouches which you can
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then fill with booze put a screw cap on
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and then slide within your existing
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luggage they are very very popular and
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certainly are one of the things that
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people use most often to bring booze on
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bored the next two ways that people used
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to smuggle booze onboard probably verge
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into the Secret Service spy type
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territory because they're recreating
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products which are fake products the
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first of these is around luggage one of
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the most interesting ones that I came
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across is a rucksack this rucksack then
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has secret pouches which you can then
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fill up with booze very much linked to
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that there are those messenger star bags
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again which have secret pouches and then
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probably one of the more practical ones
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if you are is you're getting on a cruise
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some of the warm are tote bags again
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within the tote bags they look like
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designer tote bags they look like just
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the normal tote bags that you can buy
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but they have again secret purchase in
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that you fill with booze so there's a
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whole range of luggage that you can
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bring on board both in terms of helping
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you carry stuff on board but with secret
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pouches to bring in booze one of the
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most unusual and fun areas that I've
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discovered people smuggle booze on is
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with a whole range of fake accessories
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and again there is a huge range of these
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and there are companies specifically
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making these fake accessories to help
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people smuggling booze some of the most
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interesting ones that have come across
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our umbrellas which are basically a
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storage container for booze even a hair
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brush you can get cameras binoculars
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even a smartphone and power pack shoe
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trees which you can then put in shoes
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and what we would call his bum bags or
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in the u.s. are called fanny packs so
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there's a whole range of accessories and
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luggage that are created to help people
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smuggle booze and as I said it does feel
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a little bit like you're verging on the
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spy territory with secret devices that
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double up as something else
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one of things I found really interesting
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is that clearly the smuggling of booze
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has become such a big thing that there
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are companies emerging that are just
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existing to create products to help
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people smuggle booze on board another
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thing that people use to smuggle booze
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is actually clothing so there's a range
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of clothing which are designed to have
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various pouches where you can smuggle in
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booze there are two main areas that are
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came across that people are using to do
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this first of those are
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a bra which has various pouches in which
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you fill with booze and info gentlemen
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there are shorts which have secret
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pouches in so people even going as far
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as wearing the booze that they smuggle
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onto a cruise ship there are two other
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simpler and even more practical ways
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that people are using which probably
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have a higher chance of actually being
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discovered and caught by the security
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people first of those is miniatures so
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people are basically buying those small
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little miniature bottles you know the
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sort you often get on an aeroplane but
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you can buy in various liquor stores and
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they're basically bringing in lots of
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little miniatures and stuffing those
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around their luggage so those then are
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the main devices and techniques that
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people are using but how are they
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actually ensuring that they don't get
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caught there's a couple of things that
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I've seen people do and also seen a lot
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of people talk about when they're
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bringing or trying to bring booze on
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board of course the first thing to
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remember is that most cruise lines allow
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you to bring on a certain amount of
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booze so most cruise lines will allow
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you to bring either say one or two
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bottles of wine on board as long as you
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drink that within your cabin if you take
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it in the restaurants they will charge
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you a corkage charge so the first thing
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that people are doing is bringing that
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on board the next thing they're doing is
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using a number of techniques to ensure
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that they don't get caught the first of
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those is making sure that they spread
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what they're bringing around their
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luggage so if they're traveling with a
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couple of people they're not putting it
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all in one suitcase they're putting some
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in their hand luggage someone one
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suitcase someone another suitcase so
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they're spreading it around so I guess
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even if one person gets caught they're
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hoping that the other people will still
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get some stuff through the other thing
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I'm seeing people doing and also talking
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about is if they are trying to smuggle
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booze on board they put in their checked
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baggage now those bags do get screened
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but when you go through the personal
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security often there may be more
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searches of bags so people are tending
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to put their stuff into they're checked
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on bags and that's what they're telling
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me the way that they normally find that
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they are not getting caught the other
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thing that people tell me they do if
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they do bring onboard alcohol in one of
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these ways is of course you can large it
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and you drink it in your cabin you can't
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walk around at the ship with it so
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people are then doing other things like
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then bringing their own reusable water
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bottles and putting their booze in there
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so they can take it around the ship and
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on excursions so I'm not saying or
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encouraging people to smuggle booze on
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board it's just one of those trends that
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I've seen happening more and more and
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more in fact as I've mentioned it's
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become so big that there's companies
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setting up and making products to help
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people smuggle booze on board if you
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want a stress-free holiday of course
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don't smuggle booze on board
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buy your drinks bring their lounge on
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board and even perhaps take a look at
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drinks packages although watch my other
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video about why you shouldn't buy a
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drinks package because you could find it
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is not good value for you at all I have
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loads of other videos and tips about
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cruising so why not watch another one of
