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is one of the key changes made to let
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too high a price to pay or is it worth
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it to be able to let cruising
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start again quite a few cruisers have
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negatively to the news that as cruising
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has started up in europe you're required
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to go on a cruise line excursion four of
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the cruise lines that have started up in
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and are calling on ports require you to
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go on one of their organized excursions
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and you can't go on independent tours a
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lot of cruises have not liked that
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news at all however i want to explore it
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in a little bit more detail
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before you make up your mind and talk
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about the pros the cons and things you
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before you decide if it's actually a
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price too high to pay and would stop you
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cruising certainly as cruising resumes
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we don't know at this point in time
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what the rules are going to be for
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cruises out of the usa but certainly a
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lot of these protocols that are in
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i think we are likely to see if they
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work apply when cruising starts in
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first of all you need to bear in mind
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that there are quite a lot of cruisers
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that for a very long period of time
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already require you to only go on their
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excursions this applies in expedition
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where the excursions are bundled into
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fare and you can only leave the ship on
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excursions now this often applies
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because the places you go
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are very remote or dangerous so in the
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you there's a risk of being attacked by
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polar bears so there's actually armed
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scope out an area the same in antarctica
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where they are there's lots of
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people exploring and they want to keep
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you safe so certainly
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the concept of going on a cruise where
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on cruise line excursions is an already
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established principle for many cruisers
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secondly we're seeing a lot of cruise
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or introducing the idea of cruise line
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excursions bundled into the cruises
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let's take a look at that so in ocean
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cruising viking ocean
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and regent seven sea cruises for example
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excursions into the cruise and so in all
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the ports or most of the ports
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there will be one or two excursions that
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you can go on and many of the people who
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will use the cruise line excursions
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for example oceania cruises with their
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o-life affairs you have the option of
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either on-board credit or drinks package
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or included excursions if you go on a
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for example excursions for most of those
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cruise lines are included
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and you'll find on those excursions
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whether it's on viking region 7c
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oceania or river cruising people on
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those cruises are used to going
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and really designing their cruising
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experience around the cruise line
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of course what's important to note is
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with these you're still allowed to
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head off the ship by yourself whether
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it's to go self-touring or
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on other independent tours thirdly it's
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really important to understand this is
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likely to be something
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as cruising starts up again when
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cruising started out of germany
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they were only doing cruises to nowhere
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there was no ports of call
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as italy opened up we saw the cruise
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including ports and this was great
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because you could now go and call
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on places you could go and see places
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however they had a responsibility
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to make sure that people were safe and
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there's three things to that first of
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they were testing all passengers and
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crew before they went on the cruise to
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make sure that people coming on board
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were all negative secondly they created
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a bubble on board with lots of protocols
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some mask wearing and various forms of
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social distancing to make sure that
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were kept safe the third responsibility
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is to make sure that as people head out
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on port they are also safe
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by extending that bubble so making sure
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that people are not likely to be
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or in fact to infect people locally and
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that was something that
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excited ports about living cruise ships
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back in so i think it's really important
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to understand that these
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rules around having socially distanced
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and bubbled excursions
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are a way of letting cruising open it
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means that you don't have to go
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on cruises to know where you can call on
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ports in a controlled way of course the
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downside for many people is a concern
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cost so what is happening around the
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what we're seeing happening is three
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things with the cruise lines that are
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first of all they're offering excursions
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we're seeing for example on msc cruises
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that the cruise line excursions are
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as little as 30 euros per person
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secondly they're selling bundles of
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can go for example on one of the msc
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cruises and for about a hundred euros
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you get a bundle of four or five
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and then they're bundling the excursions
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into premium cabins so if you travel for
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example at msc and yacht club
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you get the excursions included so
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certainly there is likely to be some
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form of on cost but the cruise lines
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do understand that there is a need to
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kind of balance those costs
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my personal perspective is that cruise
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line only excursions as cruising reopens
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is not too high a price to pay it means
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the cruising can start up
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they can keep the bubbles in place and
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it means that we can not only go
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cruising enjoy the ship
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but get out import and explore it's
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easier if cruisers are sailing with
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to lift those requirements because if
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cruisers are sailing it's very easy
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almost overnight to lift that
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restriction however if we have to wait
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before we can freely explore a port
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before cruising could start
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cruising could take a very long time to
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start up i think keeping those bubbles
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social bubbles is a great way of letting
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us get out there cruising and exploring
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do you think cruise line only excursions
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at this point in time is too high a
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remember i have loads more videos so why
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don't you watch another one of those
