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Celebrity Cruises: 3 Biggest Watch-Outs Before Cruising With them
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Jan 28, 2025
Celebrity Cruises are a premium cruise line with big ships, of around 2,800 passengers, in their fleet. Before you consider to go cruising with them, or of you have booked and are planning your cruise vacation, I share three major watch-outs and things you need to know before going. I explore what sort of cruise experience they offer, what the cruise fare covers and how that influences your on-board activities and life, and then what are the additional costs and extras that you will need to pay once on the ship to have an enjoyable cruise. Also watch my video about what Celebrity Cruises does better, the same and worse than other premium cruise lines: https://youtu.be/hT7VQx6d-qw Note: I paid for the cruises on this line myself Check out cruising merchandise like T-shirts at my store at https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/store Support the channel by booking your next cruise and for the best deals on CRUISEDIRECT.COM: https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/CruiseDirectYT 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 #CelebrityCruises #CelebrityCruiseLine #CelebrityCruiseTips
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hi I'm Gary Bainbridge and this is
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another of my tips for travelers I'm
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going to talk about things that I really
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think you need to know if you're
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thinking of cruising with celebrity who
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they are what's included and not
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included in the fans and things to watch
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out for Celebrity Cruises offers a
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fairly traditional cruising experience
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so the format and the structure is very
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similar to other Premium cruise lines
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however it's done with a more modern
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more vibrant a more upbeat
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twist and angle to it the ships
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themselves are very beautiful they're
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very design focused and they are
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contemporary and modern certainly
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compared to the other premium cruise
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lines so if you're the sort of Cruiser
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that it's looking for a premium Cruise
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Line you like a very traditional
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cruising experience you're not looking
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for a resort ship you're not looking for
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lots of gimmicks celebrities definitely
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want to consider it on average has a
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slightly younger Cruiser profile than
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the other Premium cruise lines so design
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and the look and feel of the ships I
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think is different and varied to the
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other premium Cruise Line so it's
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definitely giving you something
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different and they're constantly
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evolving that and moving their forward
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so on edge you've got the more
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innovations with the whole different way
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of converting the balconies with your
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infinite verandas which make you a cabin
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bigger one of the things I've found is a
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huge amount of passion for celebrities
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are people who like celebrity really
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love celebrity and a very very low to
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that whole experience and if you want a
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more upbeat a more vibrant way of
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cruising within a premium experience and
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a big ship experience definitely take a
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look at celebrity one of the key things
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when you're cruising is understanding
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what is and isn't included in your face
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so what you're going to be paying extra
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for celebrity is very similar to the
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other premium cruise lines and there are
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quite a few extras above your basic fare
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so let's take a look at first of all
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what is included in the fare and then
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I'll talk about what's not included
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first of all though of course your
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accommodation is included and there's a
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wide range of accommodation from inside
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cabins right up through to palatial
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suites now in terms of dining there is
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quite a lot of food included so you
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don't have to go to any of the
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specialized dining restaurants in the
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main dining room or dining rooms in the
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case of edge you have early or late
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sitting or of course you can have select
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dining where you can either just pitch
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up or you can actually book on the app
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or on the day by phoning up the booking
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desk and choosing a time and
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of table in terms of dining if you're
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traveling in the Aqua Spa you have the
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blue restaurant which is dedicated for
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you and if you're traveling in a suite
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you have a dedicated restaurant which is
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called luminaire the Ocean View Cafe
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which I really like has a great range of
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food and is covered by the more informal
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dining places so for example on the
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Celebrity Equinox you had the mast grill
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which it would serve things like burgers
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hot dogs kind of more informal food and
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of course you have room service
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so quite a wide range of included dining
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options of course you then also have
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access to all the facilities across the
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ship so you have all the usual things
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that you would expect you have a wide
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range of bars and lounges you have
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access to the main theatre where you
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have the different production shows on
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most of the ships you also have
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celebrity central which is where their
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show movies they'll do a lot of the
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talks or have various demonstrations or
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activities taking place and there you
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have a very large casino higher up on
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the ship you also have the pool deck so
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you have outdoor pools and you also have
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indoor pools and of course you have hot
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tubs ships will also have areas to
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exercise so you'll have a running or
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walking track you then have spaces to
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play things like table tennis basketball
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there's a fitness center it's a very
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large fitness center and one things
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you'll notice is the fitness center is
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always very busy because again
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passengers on board celebrity do tend to
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be much more active much more youthful
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and much more energetic a number of the
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ships then have one of their signatures
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which is the long Club which is half an
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acre of actual physical lawn on the top
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of the ships great space to go and hang
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out have picnics if you are traveling
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with kids there are kids clubs as three
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kids clubs one four three two five one
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four six to eight and one four nine to
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eleven kids clubs aren't including the
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fare if you want babysitting however
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that is an extra cost you also have all
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the celebrity life activity the various
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programs and activities that are
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happening around the ship through the
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day and into the evening like the other
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premium Cruise Lines there is quarter of
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on costs that if you're going on a
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celebrity cruise now of course a lot of
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those are determined by your lifestyle
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how much you drink whether you want to
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do especially dining how many excursions
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you do there are quite a lot
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seneschal on costs to your experience
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many of those you can pre-book so before
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I came on the cruise I used the cruise
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personalized er and I had chosen and
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paid for a lot of those in advance and
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the good news about that is they'll
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often give you various discounts by
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doing that in advance and you can plan
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out your whole experience before so
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that's definitely something worth
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looking at bear that in mind though is
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when you're going to board on invocation
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day there will also be a lot of offers
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so if you're not sure about what to do
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look up for those opposite and embark
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edge today because you can potentially
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save a lot of money what are the extra
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costs what are you gonna have to pay
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extra for above your fare the first of
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which are gratuities these are not
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included within the fare and there are
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an extra costs you can either prepay
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them or there add it onto your CE pass
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account and these are the time of
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recording where $14 50 per day per
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passenger $15 if you're in concierge
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class a tackle class and in suite $18
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per person per day especially dining is
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an extra cost and they did also offer
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packages for specialty dining the
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discounts if you buy one of the packages
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for specialty dining range from about
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20% if you buy and combination of three
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up to about 30 40 % if you're buying
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bigger combinations to give you a sense
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of what specialty dining costs let me
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give you what I paid on the equinox the
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sushi on five was completely out of cost
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he paid based on how much you had but
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that ended up costing around about $35
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Tuscan Grill which was the steak house
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that was $45 per person piranhas which
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is the French restaurant was about $50
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per person silk harvest the Asian fusion
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was $35 and the various fees are of a
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similar level across all of their from
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classes of ships one of the most talked
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about especially dining innovations is
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Eden on the new edge class which is this
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more interactive immersive slightly
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unusual dining experience with
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performers that interact and move about
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the space as your dining drinks will
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cost you extra so once you get some
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limited drinks tea coffee water in the
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main dining room in the ocean view your
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colored drinks or sodas are extra costs
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so you another by those ad-hoc or what
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is appear to be very popular our drinks
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packages
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and they have a number of drinks
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packages yeah the standard package which
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is $45 per person per day that includes
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basically house spirits how secures a
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small range of wine beers and fountain
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sodas the classic package which is about
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$55 per person per day at the tire
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recording this offers a bigger range of
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drinks and you'll have much more branded
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products within here wider range of
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beers wider range of wines basically a
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wider range and then you have the
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Premium Package and that cost $69 per
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person per day and that pretty much
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concludes everything that you could
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possibly want some point of looking at
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it is the classic package any drink
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that's going to cost you up to $9 is
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including the classic package and any
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drink that's going to cost you up to $15
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is included in the premium package they
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also then have bottled water packages
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and soda only packages and also they
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have non-alcoholic versions of all of
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the packages which for me as someone who
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doesn't drink alcohol that was a great
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option to actually have a drinks package
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that didn't mean I was paying for
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alcohol that I wasn't going to drink if
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you want premium teas and coffees that's
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also next to charge but there are
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included within the different drinks
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packages shore excursions are extra as
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they are and other premium cruise lines
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and they have a wide range of excursions
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I thought the excursions were pretty
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parity into surprising versus other
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lines bear amount of course that
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excursions could add quite a significant
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amount to the cost of your cruising if
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you're going out on an excursion every
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day which is in the cost to you between
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50 and $100 per person that does mount
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up quite a lot Wi-Fi is also extra Wi-Fi
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is relatively costly they have different
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packages so I for example bought the one
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device logged on at a time for the whole
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cruise and that cost around about $35 a
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day for one device and there are various
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accommodations they also slightly
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cheaper packages if you just want a very
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simple browsing experience where you
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basically just checking email a little
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bit of social media of course as you'd
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expect then there's all the discretion
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is Ben so you're gambling your bingo
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your spa treatment and laundry all those
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kind of things of course are extra if
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you're doing this video I'd love it if
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you watched many more of my tips for
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travellers videos they're designed to
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help you make more of your very precious
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travel
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time money on both land sea and on
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rivers
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