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hi I'm Gary Bembridge of tips for
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travellers in this video I want to tell
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you five types of cruises that you
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should avoid I don't explain why that's
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so first of all ships on our maiden
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voyages now a lot of people like to sign
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up and go for cruises on maiden voyages
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of ships they want to be the first
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people on board a ship to experience it
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however things generally do not run
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totally smoothly on a maiden voyage it's
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a brand new ship it's heading out to sea
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for the first time with a full
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complement of passengers and things can
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go wrong the cruise just petting in
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there's to learning the processes
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they're still learning the ship you
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might find that all the facilities and
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are in place or for example they haven't
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got the whole dining sorted out so as I
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said unless you are a big fan of a
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cruise line and you want the badge
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you're going on our maiden voyage I
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recommend you avoid maiden voyages let
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the ship bed in a bit more the second
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thing to avoid is ships that have come
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out of a drydock so the very first
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cruise after a drydock dry dock is when
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ships go in for maintenance repair and
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upgrades so bylaws ships have to go in
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every couple of years into a drydock
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sometimes they're just go in for purely
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technical reasons but usually the Cruise
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Lines uses an opportunity to change
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things around update things or they may
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add new decks new cabins sometimes they
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even cut a ship in half extend it they
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don't want to take the ship out of
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service for too long because obviously
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they'll lose revenue so they will tend
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to put it on dry dock for a very tight
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amount of time so the amount of time to
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work on the ship to make these changes
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is very limited so often ships will kind
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of dry dock with things not bedded in
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things not really working and often I've
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heard of people on cruises after drydock
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where actually there are still workmen
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on board and things are still being
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fitted and changed as you go sort of
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things open and operating
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wait for a couple of cruises after ship
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has been and dried up and then go on now
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the third thing I recommend you avoid
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are actually the short cruises now I
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used to recommend you go on these taster
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cruises you know one or two nights or
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three nights boy on a cruise line so
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first of all if you are new to cruising
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was a great chance to get a sense of
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what the Cruise Line is like if you were
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perhaps thinking of finding alternative
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cruise line I want to try it out they've
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really become party cruises normally
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those cruises are pretty you know low
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cost either per night or just for the
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they've come aboard and they really want
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to party and so what you tend to find
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happens is you don't get a true
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experience of the cruise line so
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particular void cruises at you know
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holiday times your long weekends or
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spring break be very cautious of using
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them and this of course you're looking
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for a short relatively inexpensive time
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to go and party because you probably
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will have exactly that on a short cruise
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now the fourth cruise I recommend you
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avoid unless you're going because of it
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is themed cruises now what is a themed
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cruise so basically what happens is
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either the cruise line or increasingly
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outside parties will charter some or all
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of a ship to have a conference or some
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sort of celebration so it might be
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themed around motorcycle enthusiasts or
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Game of Thrones or knitting or it could
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be a wide range of things now the reason
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you don't want to go is often what
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happens is if they've charged a large
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part of the ship well the facilities may
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be close to you there may be very
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special events going on and actually you
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end up although you spent the full
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amount to go on a cruise you're actually
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finding yourself not getting access to
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everything and not getting everything
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that you want to do on the cruise well
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how do you know if there are themed
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cruises well first of all if you're
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looking through an agent ask the agent
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to check secondly if there are websites
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that actually document themed cruises
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and an example of that is themed cruise
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finder comm and they list
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pretty much all types of themed cruises
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or the other thing to do is actually
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just put in the name of your ship and
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the dates into a search engine like
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Google and search because if there is a
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themed cruise on your particular cruise
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the fact that you put in the ship name
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and the dates will basically list if
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there are any themed cruises now my
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fifth set of cruises to avoid har ones
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which are ready link to the seasons so
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I'm going to give you two very important
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examples if you're thinking of cruising
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one of things you should probably avoid
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is all cruises in the peak of summer so
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that's sort of the end of July into
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now the reason is those cruises will
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take you to places like Rome Venice
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Barcelona Florence but these places will
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be absolutely packed because not only
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will there be lots of cruise ships going
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there but also there will be lots of
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land-based travelers going there so the
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places will be absolutely packed it'll
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be hot and will be very uncomfortable
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another example would be Alaska the
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Alaska season is quite tight so the very
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first cruise in the very last cruise
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probably want to avoid those because by
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then you're getting into very high
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probability of not great weather try and
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avoid the beginning and the end because
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those are probably really where the
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cruise line has chosen them kind of on
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the cusp of reliability the way I
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already look at it it's you're gonna go
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on you know one cruise a year if you're
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two cruises a year you know spend a lot
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of money and you want to make sure that
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the cruise you go on is likely to be the
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most amazing thing that possible and by
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avoiding those five types of cruises you
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should have a great experience hope you
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