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in this video I'm going to tell you
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about the five items that could
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completely blow the cost of your crews
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apart and go beverage of tips of
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travelers on average people spend at
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least $500 per person on board the ship
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per seven days that's a thousand dollars
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per couple and that's probably on the
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low side so a couple of things that you
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absolutely need to watch out for well
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the first of those is gratuities so they
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can vary from a low end from $12 per
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person per day right up to almost $20
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per person per day and they keep going
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up gratuities are increasingly auto
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added on to your bill by the cruise
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lines if you're traveling with an ultra
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luxury cruise line gratuities are
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normally included in the fare and also
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if you're traveling in some regions of
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the world where tipping is not
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culturally the norm like Australia
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you'll also often find the patooties are
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included in the fare but for those
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regions of the world they are Auto added
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by the cruise line onto your bill now in
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some cases on some lines you can go in a
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quest they're either reduced increased
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or totally removed but increasingly
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cruise lines are moving away from that
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so at the time of recording for example
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on Norwegian Cruise Line if you want to
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change the auto gratuities you have to
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pay them and then apply for a refund or
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a change once you've left the cruise but
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they are in fact an integral part of the
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members of crew onboard salary and they
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really rely on those gratuities so in
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some ways in my view adding gratuities
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and also editing is a little bit as
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honest because all the cruise line is
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really doing is keeping the headline
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fare down but actually it's something
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that you've got to pay and the crew
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members salaries really depend on those
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Cotuit ease so gratuity is going to cost
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you around $100 per person per 7 days
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the second thing to watch out for are
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drinks now unless you just drinking
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water or you're perhaps on one of those
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high-end cruises where drinks are
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included but for most cruise lines and
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most cruises you're going to drink more
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than the tap water that's available even
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if you don't drink a lot you'll soon
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find even just soft drinks coffees teas
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can soon mount up cruise lines also add
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gratuities on to your drinks of around
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about 15% most cruise lines offer drinks
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these can cost around about 55 dollars
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and up for an all-inclusive package that
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includes soft drinks wines beers spirits
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that's fifty five dollars per person per
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day and also if you're traveling with
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someone everyone in the cabin has to buy
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the package so you're talking around
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about a hundred dollars per person per
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day there are of course cheaper packages
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like soft drinks only ones which could
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be $25 per person per day so you can
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easily be spending around about for a
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couple hundred dollars a day just on
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drinks the third thing to watch out for
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are excursions now of course if you're
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going on a cruise just to stay on the
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ship and you don't plan to get off any
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ports there's gonna be no costs at all
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however most people when they're gonna
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cruise get off in the port and many
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people will go on excursions either with
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the cruise line or with independent
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providers or they may even go traveling
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by themselves on things like hop on hop
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off buses or taxis if you're going on
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cruise on excursions you're going to
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mount up a pretty hefty bill excursions
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can cost anything on the low end from
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forty fifty dollars just for a very
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simple transfer perhaps to a beach up to
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a course many thousands of dollars on
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average I've found excursions were going
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to cost you around about $75 to $100 per
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excursions so again you could be
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spending that amount of money every
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single day of the cruise you can
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minimize those costs by going on
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independent excursions which may cost
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you slightly less of course you can self
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talk but still you're gonna have things
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like entrance fees hopping off buses
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taxis so again you need to make sure
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that you understand what excursions you
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want to go on and budget for them
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because you could find yourself spending
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$250 and upwards on excursions on your
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seven-day cruise the fourth big wall
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chart is the internet now the internet
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on board cruise ships is very expensive
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you can be spending anything from 25
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cents a minute up to 75 cents and above
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so even if you're just spending an hour
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online at the best package price
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available you could be spending $100 per
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person across the course of a seven days
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now the good news is cruise lines under
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standard internet and access is becoming
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more and more important to people and
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they are trying to drive down the cost
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I have spent up to $250 in a seven-day
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cruise just to have decent Wi-Fi access
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to be able to do all the things that I
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want to do online whether it's checking
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emails a little bit of browsing social
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that could be a big cost that can
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completely flow away your budget now the
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fifth thing is discretionary spend
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things that you might want to do on
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board and you can probably control these
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more but there are things that you soon
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find you're racking up a lot of costs
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for one of the big ones is speciality
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dining of course your fare includes all
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your meals so in the main dining room or
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the you know buffet restaurant often
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it'll include room service but what the
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cruise lines have started to do is to
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put in more and more speciality
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restaurants whether it's a steak
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restaurant a sushi restaurant burgers
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restaurant because they want to get you
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to spend more money on board now the
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charge for speciality restaurants can be
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on the low end just ten dollars or so
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that it can go right up to $75 or more
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so if you decide you want to start
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eating at those special energy
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restaurants it's gonna cost you quite
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over money so even you know one night
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out for two of you could be cussing you
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you know one hundred and fifty dollars
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the other thing of course is spa
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treatment spa treatments onboard ships
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can be very expensive
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I found the cost of treatments to be
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quite high versus what I find them to be
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on land so you can be paying way over
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$100 just for a 60-minute massage the
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good news is the fitness center is free
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to use a table try and also sell you
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classes for example where you can be
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paying you know $25 per class another
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thing that people rack up a lot of cost
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is buying the onboard photographs there
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are photographers all around the ship at
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every event they take lots of pictures
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and you want to know why it's because it
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earns the cruise lines a lot of money
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pictures themselves are pretty expensive
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to buy again you can buy packages that's
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something that people really like to do
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they like to have a picture taken with
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the captain or senior officers which are
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often offered because again the cruise
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lines know that a lot of people want to
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buy those and of course then there's
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gambling and gaming like bingo and again
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that's come not compulsory is something
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you might want to do but again if that's
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the sort of thing that you like to do
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and it's very easy when you're on
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vacation to get swept up in that whole
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thing and find yourself spending quality
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at the casino because he knows I'll take
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up a lot of space on cruise ships and
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again if you've wondered why it's
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because it makes them a good sized
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amount of money so once you're on board
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those are the things to really watch out
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for some of them are quite hard to avoid
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simply to tease you know you've got to
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more than just water even if you're a
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non drinker you've got excursions
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to go out and see the port and you've
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got the internet and you gotta have
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discussion you spend as you look at the
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cruise don't just look at the fair
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you've got to think about those other
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costs which are pretty hard to avoid and
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could add a huge amount onto the cost of
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your cruise hope you found that helpful
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