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Does A SAGA Spirit Of Discovery Midship Cruise Suite Stack Up?
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Jan 28, 2025
My review of SAGA Spirit Of Discovery Midship Suite B528 that I stayed in. I rate how it performs on the 7 key criteria that I think makes a suite a good suite . How does this cruise suite stack up ABOUT TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS: If you want to get cruising right, Tips For Travellers makes it easy to plan and have the incredible cruise experiences you dream of every time. All my Tips For Travellers advice, tips and tricks tips draw on everything that I have learnt on the 77 cruises I have done to date. BUY MY CRUISE-THEMED T-SHIRTs ————————————————- Check out my T-Shirt range: http://bit.ly/TFTStore SUPPORT TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS ————————————————————— Become a Channel Member and get perks: https://www.tipsfortravellers.com/Join Become a Patron on Patreon and get perks: https://www.patreon.com/tipsfortravellers Make a donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=V9STJGYSEMGLJ Buy my book “Cruise Traveler’s Handbook: USA Amazon https://amzn.to/2YVFmG4 and https://amzn.to/3tzIxBn UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3oXbzYc and https://amzn.to/3qawqIQ FOLLOW ME ON SOCIAL MEDIA ——————————————— TikTok: @garybembridge
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to be a great suite on a cruise ship
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it has to hit in my view seven
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key criteria on the nail every single
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time
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now i'm cruising in a midship suite on
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board saga spirit of discovery
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let's find out how it does on those
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seven key
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criteria i'm gary bembridge i'm here to
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make it fun and easy
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to discover plan and have unforgettable
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cruise vacations
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is this sweet unforgettable for the
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right seven
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reasons different cruise companies
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tackle these seven criteria in different
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ways
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here on saga they have decided to split
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them into separate individual rooms
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something that i
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really like so we start off with
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criteria number one which is a great
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seating area you have a fantastic sofa
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down here
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you have a little table to put stuff on
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you have some more storage underneath
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the television
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you then have a very large interactive
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television is another one
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across in the bedroom also in this area
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is actually the dining area which is the
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second key criteria there's a little
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table here it actually has a little
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leaf on it so it can expand and i had a
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couple of breakfasts there
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and you could of course have dinner and
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stuff there so it's got a very nice
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little dining area
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comfortable space for two people in the
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seating dining
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area you have this area here where you
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have a great coffee machine
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which has the little capsules
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teas all that kind of stuff a kettle
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some treats there
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and these are all included within the
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sweet fair also
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importantly down below you have the mini
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bar now the mini bar
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gets replenished with whatever you want
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and that is also included within the
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fare so again that's
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an important perk an important tick so
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the first room in the suite which is
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your dining seating area and that sort
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of
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little amenities area definitely works
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pretty well as i mentioned you've got
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this
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interactive tv where you can watch
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movies
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shows in the theater television all that
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kind of stuff
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but what about the second room which is
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the bedroom let's go
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and take a look at that well as you can
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see the bedroom is a pretty good size
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it has this is currently made up as a
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i guess a king sized bed or queen size
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bed it can be split into two
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beds so it can be a twin room as well
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next to the bed you have some plugs and
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also
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usb plugs let me talk a little bit about
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plugs on board
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this particular ship now this being a uk
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ship unlike most
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other cruise ships it has a large number
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of
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uk three pin plugs so you'll find next
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to the bed for example you've got a
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three pin plug
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dotted around the rest of the cabin
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you'll find three pin plugs there are
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also though
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a couple of euro plugs so the two
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pin euro plugs what you don't have which
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is more common on cruise ships is
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loads of u.s style plugs but this cruise
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line
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caters a lot for the brit so this is
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probably perfectly fine i mentioned that
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you have
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the interactive television here as well
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and then you also have
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across over here a dressing table
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dressing table pretty good size loads of
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storage there
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but certainly perfect if you need to get
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dolled up in front of the mirror i
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really like the bedroom it was quite
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cozy
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at night you could close yourself in the
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bed is relatively hard i quite like that
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and you can have a choice of pillows for
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example i like feather pillows
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and they were happy to bring those for
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me the next key thing i want to look at
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which is the next key area it's a
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separate room in itself and that is over
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there and that
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is the sort of walk-in dressing but it's
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more of a cupboard
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area storage area so as you can see this
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dressing
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room come walk in cupboard is a pretty
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good
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size i can stretch kind of right out
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that far there is
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a lot of storage here you have two
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spaces so you have one here with lots of
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hanging space
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and area to put your shoes and stuff
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underneath there
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you've got loads of drawers here and a
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safe which is a
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very big safe you could fit a laptop in
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like really really easily so plenty of
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storage
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inside the safe and then you have the
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second hang area which is a little bit
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longer
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so you know you've got your long dresses
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or whatever that you want to put in
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there
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so it's probably more of a walk-in
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cupboard really than a dressing room as
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such but this is enough room to get
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dressed in here through here
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is the bathroom which is actually split
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into two key areas
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the bathroom as you can see is a pretty
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big
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sized room and there's a couple of
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things i want to talk about
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which i really liked you have the shower
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a big walk-in shower i guess all showers
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are
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walk in i suppose you have a one of
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those raindrop
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shower head thingies and a handheld one
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as well
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you also have a separate bath which is a
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pretty good
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size as you can see when i attempted to
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have a bathroom
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or had a bathroom you have two basins
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which is something i really like even
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though i was happy to try to myself i
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like the two basins
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and a surprisingly large amount of
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storage also what you have
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is loads and loads of these branded
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toiletries one of the key things
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that you'll normally get in swedish kind
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of a branded toiletries
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this is called priya which i hadn't
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actually heard of to be honest
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with you there is one slightly bizarre
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feature in the bathroom and that's the
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mirror
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and the lights that are integrated into
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this mirror because they don't switch
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off i spent ages
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trying to find a light switch but they
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do not switch off they stay on
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all the time that's true across all the
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cabins so it's just as well that i
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actually
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brought along some eye shades with me
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because
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the the light kind of filters through
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into the bedroom so that's something to
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think about
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the second thing which is actually
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really good particularly if you're
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traveling with someone
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is the toilet is through there with the
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hand basin so you can actually
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close this door and have a bit of
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privacy someone could be in the bathroom
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someone can be in the toilet so that
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separation is a pretty good idea
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so having the separate toilets i guess
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you could argue
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adds in a whole extra room but i counted
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really the bathroom and the toilet as
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one area one thing's really interesting
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is it's one of the highest toilet seats
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that i've actually had
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on a ship or even at home i don't know
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if that's a function of the fact they
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cater
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for sort of 50 plus tend to have a
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slightly older
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audience whether that's a thing or was
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just a design feature
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but like that little hand basin there as
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well so that takes us then back out
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into the main dining and seating area
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with the next
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critical element to come and that
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critical element is one of the
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critical and important things that you
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get if you have a suite and that is
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the magnificent huge extended balcony
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let's go take a look at that
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so as you can see out here on the
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balcony it's a great size balcony you
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have a table
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for two people so you could sit and have
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breakfast or a meal out here you have a
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lovely lounge area over there and it's a
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big piece of i guess a double sized
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balcony a real big plus of having a
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suite
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that's then kind of the hardware of the
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suite
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the space and the features that you have
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one of the other key reasons
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that people like to take a suite is for
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all the perks and
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so on that you get so what does this
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suite have would you do have a butler
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as well as a cabin stew so the butler
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will do things like unpack and pack if
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you want them to do
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bring you your meals if you're ordering
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room service polish get your shoes
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polished or what he did for me it was
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sort of all of my special
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dining reservations because they're all
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included in the fair
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and all those kind of arrangements that
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is one of the key perks
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but other than that there's very few
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perks of being in the suite you do get
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the chance to order canapes every
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evening you just stick what you want in
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the morning
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and that comes in the evening you get a
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bowl of fruit and as i mentioned earlier
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you get your drinks in your mini bar but
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it's unlike
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other cruise ships you don't have a
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special suites area the other plus
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is you of course have great locations so
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what i really like about the suites
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on saga spirit discovery they're
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midships as i mentioned this is called a
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midship's suite
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so it is actually in one of the best
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parts of the ship the middle of the ship
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the most stable part of the ship unlike
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the front or the back of the ship where
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you have
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more movement so how do you think that
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this saga spirit of discovery
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midship suite did against those key
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criteria
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for making a sweet a great sweet i think
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you did
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pretty well overall in terms of meeting
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it it's a great size
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very comfortable and i think it got a
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tick on pretty much all of those key
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things
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if you want to find out more about saga
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click this
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key things
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that saga is not and why it's not
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for everybody so click and i'll see you
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over there
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