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9 Cruise Seasickness Tips : How To Prevent And Cure Cruising Seasickness
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Jan 29, 2025
I have been on over 50 cruises and not yet had seasickness by following these nine seasick prevention and cure tips. In this video I share nine key things to do to ensure that you are less likely to be seasick and what to do and cure seasickness if it strikes. You will learn how to prevent seasickness and motion sickness, what to do if you feel seasick and the ultimate and guaranteed cure if you start to suffer badly from motion seasickness. 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 shares 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 all social media platforms. Search there for "TipsForTravellers" or "Gary Bembridge"
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in this video I'm gonna give you nine
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tips on how you can minimize the chance
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of getting seasick I'm Gary beverage of
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tips for travelers I've been on way over
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50 cruises and so far I have not been
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seasick by following these 9 tips the
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first tip that I've got is do not psych
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yourself do not wind yourself up and
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believe that you're going to get seasick
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many people that get seasick have got
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themselves into such a frenzy that they
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keep thinking about it they worried
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about it and they almost bring it upon
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themselves so every little motion every
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little thing will make them think
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they're gonna get seasick so don't psych
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yourself up have a positive attitude and
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believe that you are not gonna get
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seasick that is the first and most
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important thing that you can do the
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second thing that you can do is avoid x
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or void itineraries when it's most
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likely to be rough so for example
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crossing the Atlantic in the winter
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months you are very likely they're very
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rough seas I've costed a couple of times
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you've had 50 60 foot waves and it's
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been very rough other things to avoid
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are things like the Bay of Biscay
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sending out of Southampton that is
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renowned for being rough and causing a
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lot of people to be seasick another
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renowned area for rough seas is Drake's
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passage heading to Antarctica avoid
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cruises which have a lot of back to back
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sea days because there is a chance if
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you're at sea a long time that could
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make you feel seasick you'll find that
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at the beginning and the end of a
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cruising seas in any particular region
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whether it's a Caribbean or the
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Mediterranean that's when you like to
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have roughest seas so how do you find
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out ten areas or routes that are likely
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to have this smoother seas now of course
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there's no guarantee that the sea is
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going to be smooth but by choosing these
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times of the year you're going to
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maximize a chance so for example the
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Mediterranean season if you go right in
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the middle of the season which is july
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august time you laddies have the
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smoother seas middle of the caribbean
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season so that's around about sort of
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christmas time you like to have the
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smoother seas selling right within the
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depths of the Norwegian fjords saying
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right within the depths of Indian side
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passage in Alaska now if you want to
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absolutely maximize your chance of not
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being seasick then the one thing to do
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is to go on a river cruise you're
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sailing up and down rivers you're close
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to the banks at all times and is pretty
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much near impossible to be
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seasick on a river cruise so once you've
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chosen dried out enemy the third thing
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to focus on is the cabin now the best
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cabin to choose on a cruise ship is
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midship so in the center of the ship and
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as low down as possible now the reason
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for that is as the ship moves it moves
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on an axis so right in the middle is
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where there is at least movement now
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I've been on cruises for example where
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I've had a cabin midships and had
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friends who are at the back of the ship
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and we've been passing through very
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rough seas we hadn't really seen very
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much in our cabin we went to the back to
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see our friends and we could barely
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stand up
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the ship was moving so much so and
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midships load is down as possible is
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absolutely key so the fourth thing is
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come prepared and what I mean by that is
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come prepared with seasick tablets now
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you can buy these at the pharmacist or
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the drugstore you generally buy them
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behind the counter so you have to ask
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the pharmacist for them you don't need a
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prescription for them these are really
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important so what I recommend you do aim
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to take them for the first sort of 48
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hours of cruise until you get your sea
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legs it's a really good idea it's kind
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of insurance policy even if you don't
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need them now if you're in the United
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States or Canada speak brand names to
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look out for Dramamine or ba9 now if
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you're in the UK or Europe the product
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is called stir Juran or it's also known
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as Donner owned now I've used both of
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those products both Dramamine and
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Strowger on and they have been fantastic
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you normally have to take them out the
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day before or even a cup of hours before
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you cruise
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they're almost like an insurance policy
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they may make you feel a little bit
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drowsy so do look for sort of the
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non-drowsy versions but certainly they
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are likely to give you the greatest
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chance of not being seasick most cruise
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lines will offer complimentary
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seasickness notice but it's worth
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bringing your own products so you know
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that you've taken them advanced and
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you've basically ensured that you are
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all fine now my fifth tip is for people
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who don't want to take products that you
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ingest now there are a couple of
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remedies and solutions that people use
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and have found very successful which do
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not require you actually swallowing
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anything it's one of the more popular
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ones are patches which you put behind
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your ear you'll often see on a cruise
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ship a lot of people win little patches
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behind it a lot of people swear by those
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the other thing that people do are
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little wrist bands and these are little
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cloth wrist bands they have little metal
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discs which push on your wrist
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provide a kind of an acupressure and
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that's a quite a known technique for
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trying to prevent seasickness certainly
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worth trying if you don't want to take
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any sort of pills now my next tip is to
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actually use the product that seafarers
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have used for basically ever and that's
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ginger ginger was used before you know
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pills were discovered and ginger is
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really known to sort of settle
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seasickness settle the stomach and make
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you feel much better so you'll find on
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many cruise ships they will actually
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offer bits of ginger around the ship
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particularly the bars or you know at the
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dining rooms eat ginger Jing ginger
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Ale's my sensitive is to avoid triggers
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so things that can basically spark a
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feeling of nauseous now these can be
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things like very strong smells very
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strong smelling food drinking lots of
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alcohol another of those is reading so
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if you're actually reading a book or you
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know looking at something on your phone
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or tablet staring at one space is a
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really bad thing to do because it can
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make you feel motion sickness and
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seasick so thing to do is if you are
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reading is to read a little paragraph
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and look up basically don't just keep
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staring down at one thing so try and
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avoid those triggers the next thing I
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recommend you do is make sure that you
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get outside into the fresh air as much
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as possible so get outside on the decks
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take in the fresh air also very
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important is take a look at the horizon
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try and look forward on the ship rather
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than to the side but get out in the
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fresh air it will make you feel much
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better now if all of that fails if you
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do start feeling sick and you are
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actually nauseous and throwing up many
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of those are the things that have told
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you to do
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will not work so what you do get
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yourself down to the medical center and
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have a jab they have an incredible
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injection which will pretty much knock
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you out for you know quite a few hours
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you'll have a good old sleep your wake
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up and you will feel fantastic now the
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downside of that it can be very
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expensive it can be around about a
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hundred US dollars to have that job I've
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been on cruises with people who've been
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extremely seasick throwing up feeling
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absolutely terrible they've had the jab
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had a good old sleep and then are ready
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to party eat and have a great time so
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that is your final fallback solution if
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you've got any more tips I'd love to
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hear them please leave a comment and let
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me know what you do to try and avoid
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seasickness and what's worked for you
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