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Cruise Packing Tips : 21 Unusual (But Essential) Items To Pack
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Jan 29, 2025
Discover 21 unusual, strange and unexpected, but essential, items that you really should pack and take with you on your next cruise. Gary Bembridge, cruise expert and author, reveals 21 surprising things that he and other experienced cruisers always bring on board to make their cruise better and more enjoyable. How many of them will you be taking and why? Got any others you think are missing from the list? Leave your thoughts in the comments. Support Tips For Travellers and book your next cruise through CruiseDirect using this link: http://www.tipsfortravellers.com/cruisedirect . You will get the best and lowest price around. I get a small commission but you pay nothing extra. I would love you to give the video a "thumbs up" and if you subscribed to the channel now: http://bit.ly/TFT_YouTube2 Every week Tips For Travellers posts videos to help you make the most of your precious travel time and money on both land and at sea. First-hand travel inspiration, advice and tips based on the over 20 years I have been travelling every month. Follow me on: YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/tipsfortravellers Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/tipsfortravellers Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/tipsfortravellers Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/garybembridge
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hi I'm Gary beverage of tips for
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travelers I'm gonna take a look at 21
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really unusual unexpected and slightly
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strange things that you absolutely
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should pack for your next cruise
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vacation
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first of all highlighter pens hollander
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pens are fantastic for highlighting the
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various things within the daily program
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that you may want to do it simplifies
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huge amounts of information down to the
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things that are really important to use
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the second thing is a multi USB charger
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strip and a multi power strip the reason
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for that is many cruise cabins have very
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few plug sockets so you find nowadays
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when we have phones and tablets and
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cameras all sorts of things that we want
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to charge it becomes incredibly
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difficult to charge them so taking one
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of those strips where you can plug in
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multi USB things so you can charge all
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your tablets and phones and everyone in
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the cabins phablets tablets and phones
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and also if you have a strip where you
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can charge everything that you need to
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charge next is a beach towel clip or a
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bulldog clip these are really helpful
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because you can clip them onto your
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towels they don't blow away when you're
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sunbathing on deck or at the beach and
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also you may find if your curtains don't
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quite fit properly in your cabin you can
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also clip your curtains together and
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lock out light next little sample sizes
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of laundry detergent although there are
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laundries you normally have to buy the
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actual detergent that goes in those so
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grab a couple of those little sample
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size packs it's one less thing that you
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have to pay for the fifth thing is your
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own personal first-aid kit it can cost
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you a lot of money if you have to go and
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grab them out pharmacies in the port or
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you have to go to the medical center so
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pack a little kit and then put things
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like seasick tablets headache tablets
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anti-diarrheal plasters pointment
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mouth or some gel everything that you
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might use at home take a look in your
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medicine cabinet or in your bathroom at
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home look at all the things that you use
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even if they're infrequently it'll be
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really helpful and it will save you
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potential of money and stress my next
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tip which is linked to that is make sure
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that you also take with you a dental
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repair kit on board the ship all those
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medical centers there is no dentist on
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board so if you have a tooth cracker
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filling come out a crown come off having
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your own little tooth repair kit will be
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an absolute boon you can buy those at
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pharmacy
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or at drugstores a lot of people say you
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should pack one of these over the door
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shoe organizers do you've got a small
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cabin the series of pockets in them
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which can be up to 24 pockets are great
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for storing you know everything from Sun
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cream sunglasses all sorts of bits and
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pieces so it keeps your cabin nicely
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organized as where you can store and
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find things very easily pack a couple of
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water bottles particularly ones that are
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not transparent so you can't see through
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them a lot of people swear by them they
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go out with water and sometimes come
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back with something other than water
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inside them I'm not saying that's the
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right thing to do many cruise lines
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don't like you bringing alcoholic back
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on board but a lot of people do go out
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with a water bottle come back with it
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full of other stuff because those things
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are not necessary screened for what's
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inside the water bottle pack either a
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small folding umbrella or one of those
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plastic rain ponchos because you never
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know when it's gonna get wet when you're
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gonna need it as pretty small it's easy
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to put in your pocket your rucksack take
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it with you out and about and a cup unit
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grab sleep boon both on deck when you're
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out on excursions I always like to pack
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I shade in earplugs you never know what
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the situation is going to be in your
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cabin whether it might be a little bit
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noise that disturbs you when you're
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sleeping or the sunlight coming in that
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you find troublesome so it's always
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handy to have as insurance some eye
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shades and ear plugs my eleventh
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suggestion is to pack some small magnets
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the reason for those is most of the
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walls in many cabins are metal so they
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become really handy for using as an
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organization space you can put tool
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reminders to yourself you but the daily
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program tickets for excursions comes
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really handy way again of using all the
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space in your cabin and making sure that
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you can find things very easily
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antibacterial wipes and hand sanitizer
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they're really important to keep your
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hands-free and clear to help make sure
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that you try and avoid catching a
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norovirus but particularly you head out
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on an excursion they become really handy
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you have to use
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restrooms or you're touching lots of
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grubby services to make sure that you
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keep your hands nice and clean and free
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of bugs many people also link to that
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there are other tech little tissue packs
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which if they do need to go to the
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bathroom and that's not paper there for
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them to use another great thing to take
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are a pair of portable speakers which
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you can then connect by bluetooth to
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your iPhone or tablet or your computer
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and you can take a listen to music you
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know the television channels are not
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always that interesting all that great
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and advantage of course if you take a
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little speakers as you can listen to the
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music that you
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the fourteenth tip is to take rue
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freshner this is not something that's
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provided and if you're sharing cabin
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with one or more people having a little
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room freshener perhaps kept in the
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bathroom may spare Lord blushes and
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nicer smelling for everybody's now one
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of the most important things of all take
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your own pillow why I've always found
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that I never sleep as well as I do when
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I have my own pillow so the great thing
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about when you go on a cruise
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particularly if you're driving to the
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cruise is you have lots of space so take
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your own pillow it will be a absolute
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boon to sleep on your own pillow now
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many people also swear by bringing duct
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tape it's people talk about duct tape as
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being a basic duo to fix all sorts of
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problems so whether it's got problems
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with no doors or cabinets rattling
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because you've got rough seas or you've
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broken something you need to tape it up
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so a lot of people just pack a roll of
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duct tape in their case and they said it
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becomes the mr. fix at all of all sorts
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of problems you may encounter on board
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now seventeenth tip is to make sure that
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your phone or your tablet or your
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computer is packed full with
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entertainment so download movies or
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shows from things like Netflix or Amazon
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Prime or if you're coming from places
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like the UK you've got ketchup services
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like BBC iPlayer ITV hardware you
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actually download shows onto your device
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of course you can also pretty load them
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with various books to read my 18th tip
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is to bring a waterproof power tool what
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did we container that you can keep your
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iPhone in or your smartphone in when you
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head out into the beach or you're near
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water
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also the advantage is you can also put
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things like some spare cash or other
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documents that you may want to have it
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protects them obviously from water
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protection from sand on the beach and
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also it means that they you know kept in
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one place and safe so one of the things
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that a lot of people pack is a lanyard
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which they can then can attach their
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cruise car to the cruise card and of
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course it's very important it opens your
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door it's a security pass for when you
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leave the ship bring the come back onto
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the ship it's also what you hand over
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when you're paying for things so it's
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really important that you want to keep
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it safe and a lease a lot of people
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bring a lanyard so they can attach their
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card to it or they can slip their card
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into it one of the things that other
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people like to do despite the fact that
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there's so much choice onboard is to
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take their own favourite tea or instant
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coffee one of things that I really miss
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I need ring for example decaf
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Coffee and I find it quite hard to find
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on a board a ship often so I take my own
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favorite decaf coffee with me
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so that I can make sure that I can have
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coffee that I want if you have tea
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making facilities in your room and you
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want to have your favorite little cup of
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tea or cup of coffee you have that with
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you it's a great little suggestion
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another great thing to pack all those
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brightly colored little post-it notes
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near those little sticky notes they
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become really helpful for leaving notes
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around the cabin for your roommates or
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your family turning them where you've
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gone what time to meet also perhaps
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leaving messages for your cabin stitute
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if you haven't seen them there's things
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you want like extra towels you want them
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to leave something I'll get something
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for you so there you have it that's
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twenty-one unusual strange and slightly
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bizarre you may think things to pack now
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if you have other things that you
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absolutely love taking they're a little
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bit unusual or different and you
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strongly recommend wanna leave a comment
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and let other people know what those
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things are one of things I really love
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