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Jan 28, 2025
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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tips for travelers cruise news and
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updates every single week I bring you
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the biggest and most important breaking
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news about the world of cruising so you
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don't have to track it yourself the
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first and biggest of those five stories
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is around what's happening with cruise
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resumption as we know there is the no
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sail order which is for all ships
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heading in and out of the United States
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this is in place at the moment until
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July the 24th the CDC issued a statement
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through the media and the most important
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part of that was the following where
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they said at this point in time we do
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not have enough information to say when
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it will be safe for cruise ships to
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resume sailing we've seen a whole nother
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raft of cancellations announced during
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the course of the last week the big
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announcements are really pushing
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cruising back into the october/november
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timescale P&O Cruises announced which
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are based in the UK announced changes
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where they have canceled all their
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cruising through to October Cunard
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canceled all their cruises right through
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for two of their ships until the
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beginning of November and for the Queen
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Elizabeth their third ship until towards
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the end of November we also saw Pullman
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tour which is a joint venture with Royal
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Caribbean basically saying they're
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cancelling all of their cruises right
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through until November time when it
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comes to resuming cruising though we are
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seeing more stuff happening actually
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within Europe on the positive side
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Mikko river cruises they have started
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very limited river cruising sailing for
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German any passengers on the Rhine we've
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also seen cross Europe which is the
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biggest in terms of the number of ships
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a number of rivers operator in Europe
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they announced some new protocols and
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are talking about they believe that
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they're going to be able to start doing
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some of their European arteries as we
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head towards later in summer always time
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also very importantly Norway has given
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the okay for her to return to start
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selling for Norwegian passengers only
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and during the course of June some
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Danish passengers we've also seen sea
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dreaming given the okay to sell in
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Norwegian waters with Norwegian
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passengers and again some Danish
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passengers MSC crew
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which are really really big in Europe
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they have actually started recruiting
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staff to join their ships in mid-july in
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the Mediterranean to be trained on new
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protocols and procedures so certain if
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they're bringing crew back they must
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feel pretty strongly they're gonna be
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able to start selling somewhere in the
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Mediterranean as we head towards the
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middle and end of summer we've also seen
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some very active discussions again doing
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regional cruising for regional
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passengers are starting in France with
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or not
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Aida so they asked want to talk with
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doing German ports for German travelers
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Viking have floated the idea of doing
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around the UK cruises for UK only we
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haven't seen any specifics on those
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negotiations we don't know how
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successful they're going to be but
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certainly there is a lot of discussion
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underway in the news around doing local
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cruises for local residents the second
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big news story is around ports and ports
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opening Canada as we know have closed
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all ports to cruise ships to the end of
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October which has effectively canceled
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out of the whole Alaska cruising season
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the reason that's so important is and
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why it's killed off the Alaska season is
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all ships sailing in and out of the US
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that are not flagged in the US have to
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call it at least one foreign port before
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they can return to the US so that's why
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Canada is so important Alaska season
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Australia have also said that they have
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banned all cruise ships until the middle
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of September that was reinforced when
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Queensland which is one of the states or
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territories which includes Brisbane are
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really important cruise port for cruises
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around Australia where they said that
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all cruise ships are going to be banned
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until the end of the public health
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emergencies that means that whole
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declaration of public health emergency
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has to be lifted before they can allow
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cruise ships and of course we don't know
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when that is going to happen when it
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comes to the Caribbean which of course
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is going to be really fundamental as
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cruisers start sending again out of the
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US out of the Miami Port Canaveral port
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everglades caribbean is slowly starting
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to open up but certainly when you look
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at the map and those countries are
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opening not that many of our announced
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actual plans for opening so we are
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seeing some of the islands opening to
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international travelers so for example
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we're seeing places like Jamaica
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uber said Lucia also need to open around
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about June time we seen Bahamas talking
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about opening in July and at the moment
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the Cayman Islands are talking about
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around about September what those are
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for or for travel is actually flying in
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there haven't specifically spoken about
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cruise ships at yet in the updates and
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there are fairly varied approaches to it
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so some of the islands are talking about
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the need for masks some are talking
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about pre testing before you board
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flights so there's no yet a consistent
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message around Caribbean ports and when
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they're opening of course that's going
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to be really important to watch in the
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news over the coming weeks and months
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because Caribbean ports are gonna have
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to open as a no sell order is released
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for cruises basically to work in the
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Caribbean so I'll keep an eye on that
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news and keep you posted on that as we
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hear more on that over the coming week
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fourth area of news is around delays to
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ship bills and revamps and dry docks of
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ships of course over the last month or
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two there's been lots of news about
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ships being delayed because the
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shipyards have had to close down because
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of covered we saw this week the new
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Viking ship actually coming out of build
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so that was some really positive good
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news we've also seen silver sea
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basically taking their cruise ship which
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is designed for the Galapagus this week
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as well so we seeing some positive news
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on that the other big news is around
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Royal Caribbean where Royal Caribbean
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have actually postponed some big work on
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four of their ships all other ships are
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going through the big amplification
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process to improve the armboard offering
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that is now being postponed so the ones
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that were due in 2020 Explorer of the
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season Allure of the Seas
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they've been postponed and the ones due
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in 2021 Liberty an adventure the Seas
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they've also been postponed the next
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piece of news is the deals keep coming
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and one of things I've said before is
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keep an eye out for deals I believe
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prices gonna become more more volatile
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you can see lots and lots of deals and
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what we're seeing is pretty much any
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cruise line you go to you're going to
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see what they call flash sales so for
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limited periods of time they're offering
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deep deals and activities to try and
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also encourage people to book by a
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certain deadline some of the ones I've
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seen this week that are particularly
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interesting Norwegian cruise lines have
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launched a
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basically pay for an ocean view get a
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balcony and you can choose two or three
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extra perks and benefits from the whole
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range that they offer included within
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that price carnival offering really low
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prices two-for-one deals and really low
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deposits Holland America offering a
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really great deal where they throw in
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all sorts of things so you'll get free
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drinks free gratuities free things your
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dining package free Wi-Fi for Suites
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reduce deposits Oceania Cruises which
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are already doing a promotion I've
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offered an extra ten percent for members
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of their loyalty club so basically if
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you take a look at any cruise line
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you'll see deals one thing I would
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encourage you though and this is really
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really important because this is also
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news as well as I mentioned there is
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lots of volatility to come in pricing so
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make sure that you're tracking tracking
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prices you can do that either for
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example with a free service on cruise
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critic we can do a price alert when you
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search for a cruise another one called
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cruise watch I set up a couple of alerts
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for some of the cruises that I have
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lined up for twenty twenty one and
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already I've started getting alerts
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saying the prices are coming down what
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happens when you get that contact the
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cruise line say you've seen the prices
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coming down ask them what they're going
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to do some of the cruise lines will give
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you upgrades extra onboard credits some
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of them will reduce the price but make
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sure if you are locking in any of those
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deals that you're still tracking it
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those are the five big news stories for
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this week in terms of the tips of
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