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Cruise Cabin No-Nos. 11 Things Never To Do In Your Cabin
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Jan 28, 2025
What are the things you should never do in your cruise cabin and stateroom? I explore the 11 big things that you should never do and why. Some of these are about being respectful of the crew and other passengers, but some could get you into trouble and even have you disembarked from the cruise. Are you guilty of any of these? SUPPORT THE CHANNEL BY: Buying my Cruise T-shirts: http://bit.ly/TFTStore Booking your next cruise with CRUISEDIRECT.COM: http://bit.ly/TFTBookCruise WATCH THESE POPULAR RECENT VIDEOS: 10 Cabins to Avoid: https://youtu.be/PgTGLma919A European River Cruise Watch-Outs: https://youtu.be/oqhz54wStyk 5 Cruises To Avoid: https://youtu.be/CNiPzK4IRWA Alaska Cruise Need-to-Knows: https://youtu.be/Tn7dpNw5kSI Things Cruise Lines Don’t Want You to Know: https://youtu.be/cs5UKha9ALc Rules Passengers Break Most: https://youtu.be/djZLZ3XV_f0 Things You Can’t Do On A Cruise Any More: https://youtu.be/zas6F4wMD0Q Should You Pay Cruise Gratuities: https://youtu.be/QBYzqxXjEXQ Gary Bembridge's Tips For Travellers aims to help you make more of your precious travel time and money on land and when cruising the oceans or rivers of the world. To help you, in every video I draw on my first-hand tips and advice from travelling every month for over 20 years and 74 cruises at time of recording. Follow Tips For Travellers on:
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what are the eleven things you should
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never ever do in your cruise cabin hi
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I'm Gary beverage this is another of my
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tips for Travis I want to share with you
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11 cabin no nose things you absolutely
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must not do in your cabin starting with
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this one first is a really obvious one
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and that is nothing with an open flame
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should be used all done in your cabin
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very good reason for this is fire is the
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thing that Cruise Line's captains fear
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more than anything else it's the hardest
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thing to control when you're out at sea
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it's incredibly dangerous so it's
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completely banned you can't have candles
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incense burners anything with you know
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flames that are alive if you really want
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to bring something to create the
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ambiance one of the things I recommend
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you can buy a little battery-operated
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tea lights was actually what cruise
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lines use in their restaurants to create
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that sort of candle effect so you could
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bring something like that but nothing
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with an open flame should ever be used
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in your cabin the second thing is around
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the bottoms a couple of real no nose
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here first of all which is something the
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cruise lines keep begging you is don't
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put anything other than the supplied
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toilet tissue toilet paper down the
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toilet the reason for that is there is a
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suction system so the toilets work on a
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suction system and are very easily
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blocked so even things like wipes
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anything like that you know women's
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hygiene products don't put anything down
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the toilet
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there's always little rubbish bin in the
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bathroom wraps up up if you want to in
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the toilet tissue and chuckling there
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but don't put anything down the toilet
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I've been on cruises where we've had a
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nightmare because the toilet system has
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been blocked and it's a real big hassle
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for the cruise lines to fetch it
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the other thing linked to the bathroom
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no nose is I know a lot of people have
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been really surprised because they've
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stepped out of the bathroom and
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discovered either the cabin steward is
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cleaning away or they've now pulled up
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against another cruise ship or they
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pulled into a port and there's people
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able to look in really important
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particular on a river cruise so don't
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step out of the bathroom completely
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stark bollock naked without checking
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because there's a possibility you're
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going to have an audience and one that
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you didn't really intend to have the
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next area
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no nose is around the electric plugs and
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things you plug in in your cabin there's
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probably four critical things that are
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no no's within a cruise cabin first of
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all you can't plug in anything that has
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a surge protector so this is extension
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cables with surge protectors most cruise
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lines will screen those out some cruise
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lines will let you bring onboard an
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extension cable without a surge
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protector you often people want to bring
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on devices like that because not all
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cruise lines have loads and loads of
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sockets and we all of us have many
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things that we want to plug in nowadays
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so nothing with a surge protector
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secondly when you leave the cabin
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anything you've got plugged in you know
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left to charge or any of your devices
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you need to unplug those and the reason
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for that is a safety one so there's no
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chance of things being plugged in and
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fire breaking out go through some sort
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of electrical fault cabin suits are
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normally instructed that they should
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unlike anything that's left to plug in
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and I've done before I've gone out not
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raising I've left perhaps a camera or
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phone being charged and I'll come back
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and discover the chemistry has unplugged
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it so that's a real nono I should have
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done that in the first place the third
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area is you can't plug in anything that
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has a heating element now normally the
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cruise lines would have screened for
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these so these are things like baby
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bottle warmers or you've got sums of hot
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plates or device that has a heating
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element like an eye and travel eye and
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those kind of things they should never
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be plugged in in fact you shouldn't have
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brought them on board anyway and the
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cruise line probably in most cases would
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have screen that and ask you to have
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removed it from your luggage and to have
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held on to it the fourth area which is
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sort of linked to that is the area of
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hair accessories so hair dryers in most
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cases are loud on board on a cruise line
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so check if yours is the case most
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cruise lines have hair dryers supplied
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anyway most cruise lines nowadays will
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let you bring on board curling tongs but
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again check and find out if you are
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allowed to use those in the cabin so
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that's a whole bunch of no-nose around
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electrical items and plugs on board the
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next cabin no-no is to actually take
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items from your cabin when you leave the
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ship so that's things like umbrellas
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slippers bathrobes whatever it is that
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are within your cabin because all that
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will happen
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you'll be charged them and actually the
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charge of those are pretty high and they
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will just basically charge you once
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you're off the ship so don't take any of
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those items you'll find most cruise
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lines will give you the option of buying
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those and it's a much cheaper option to
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do it that way if there's something you
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really want what about things like
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toiletries now nowadays as cruise lines
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become more and more sort of
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environmental you're finding that many
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cruise lines are getting rid of little
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minature you know the tiny little
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bottles of toiletries to have pump
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dispensers or large products if you do
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still have little miniatures and you do
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want to take them with you because it's
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a duty brand you know Bulgari or locks a
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town or and these really nice brands my
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little tip is perhaps put a couple aside
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in a cupboard or in your bag during the
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course of the cruise and see if they get
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replenished and if they get replenished
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then you know it's pretty safe to take
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those off with you normally when it
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comes to toiletries it's pretty fine to
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take it however if you've got those big
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bottles that are refilled it's probably
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frowned upon for you to take those so
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again watch very carefully what you take
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off the ship my fifth Kevin nono is
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around the minibar and I tend to never
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touch anything in the minibar because
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like in hotels the price of many bars is
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very high however that may differ based
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on the cruise line so if you go in more
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premium cruise lines so I've been on
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some cruise lines like silver sea or
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Seabourn where what's in your minibar is
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included within the price the same for
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example if you go in Queens grill in
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Cunard you'll find that what's the new
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minibar is included in there's no extra
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charges even if you have a drinks
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package on pretty much every single
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cruise line the drinks in the minibar is
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not included in the drinks package so
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it's gonna cost you extra on top of the
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fees you've already paid for your drinks
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package so be really cautious about
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touching the minibar I tend to avoid the
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minibar and make that almost a no-no
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also really check when it comes to
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bottled water
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of course many cruise lines are phasing
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out bottled water but those are still
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have it check if the water is
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complimentary or included bearing in
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mind that the water that comes out of
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the tap is perfectly fine to drink and
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what I sometimes do is I take a little
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flavor sachets if I'm worried about the
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water not drinking it just straight out
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the tap but it is perfectly fine to
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drink out the tap another real big no-no
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in cruise cabins is smoking and vaping
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it's not allowed in pretty much every
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single cruise line also in the balcony
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it's
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allowed smoking vaping a definite acaba
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no no some cruise lines are really
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really strict on that they will charge
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you extra fees for cleaning and
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theoretically you could even be
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disembarked for breaking that rule party
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because it's a rule and the smell but
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also from a safety perspective they
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don't want people smoking now on the
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balconies and in the cabins another big
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cabin no nose around noise and there are
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different rules and regulations around
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noise there are really things to watch
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out for are loud music in your cabin
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which can carry through the walls putida
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you've got an inter connecting door
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definitely on your balcony no loud music
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in fact you're not even supposed to play
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music out on your balcony but even just
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generally cabin no nose bearing in mind
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that whilst cabins are relatively
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soundproof noise can travel so it's
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really actually inconsiderate if your
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televisions blaring loud you're playing
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loud music and it is something that is
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pretty disruptive and drives me crazy
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actually noisy people next door another
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very interesting and slightly quirky
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thing when it comes to noise is I was
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reading recently about a couple that got
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disembarked for actually making love in
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a really raucous and loud way which was
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driving people crazy and they felt as a
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huge low amount of trouble and were
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actually disembarked from a cruise from
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being too noisy in moments of passion
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there's a bunch of things around noise
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and Cameron just really be considered
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about other people around you for me
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noise currently cabin is a real big
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no-no the next set of cabin no nose is
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related to your balcony so if you're
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traveling in one of those cabins that
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have a balcony there's a bunch of
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absolut of things you should never do on
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the balcony one of which is sit or
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little kids sit on the handrail really
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read Ange hrus and that's often how
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people have fallen overboard so really
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watch out for that one
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then the usual things like I said you
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know smoking loud music getting up to
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all sorts of mischief where you can be
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overlooked and seen on a balcony I have
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a whole video around balcony know those
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there's so many of those actually but
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watch out really really carefully what
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you get up to it on your balcony bearing
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in mind that often you can be overlooked
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so perhaps sunbathing without any
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clothes on all that kind of stuff is a
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kind of a no-no because
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could be rather embarrassing for
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everybody concerned to other critical
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know knows related to that are first of
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all you shouldn't leave your balcony
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door open the reason for that although I
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know people like to do it because they
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like the fresh air coming in there the
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sound the sea is a couple of things it
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actually causes havoc with the air
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conditioning and causes the air
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conditioning to really crank up and uses
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more energy that's necessary on a ship
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also actually it can create a wind
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tunnel so if someone opens your cabin
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door that effect is huge and there's a
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massive wind tunnel effect and
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everything will be blown around your
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cabin so it's a real nono to leave that
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balcony door open also you shouldn't
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hang out things to dry on your balcony
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for a couple reasons they can get blown
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off and head off into the ocean where of
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course they can fall into the ocean and
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prove actually not great for marine life
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or they could actually get blown off and
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blown into someone else's balcony so
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cruise lines ask you not to hang laundry
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on your balcony even if it's swimming
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trunks normally in your bathroom you'll
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find normally in the shower above the
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bath if you have one a clothes liner in
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a clothesline that you can pull out and
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hang your stuff up there so that's a
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whole bunch of Berkley related no nose
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for your cabin another cabin no no is
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don't tape things onto your wall with
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cellotape
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or a lot whatever the reason for that is
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it very easily pulls off paint and also
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the cabin walls are magnetic because
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they're metal so what other people like
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to do is bring little magnets so if you
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do want to pin up things just get those
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little like fridge magnets and you can
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put stuff all over your cabin wall
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without any risk of damaging the cabin
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itself that's a really good tip and it's
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a great way of reminding yourself you
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know I want to put up daily program or
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leave notes for your traveling
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companions where you are or whatever it
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is but magnets not sellotape sticking
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onto the walls the 10th absolute no-no
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is related to the safe first of all I
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strongly recommend that you use the safe
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most cruise lines will have a safe in
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many of their cabins and that's the
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place to put things i passport money
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credit cards valuable electronics
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whatever it is use the safe and make
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sure it's locked away but also
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importantly a big kevin no no
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it's making sure that you don't leave
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anything the safe so really make sure
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when you do disembark that you check in
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the safe and things haven't fallen you
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know underneath the little madness I'm
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just have the bottom so people often
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leave things in the safe
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often they realize once they get off the
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ship because it's something like a
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boarding like a passport but you use the
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safe so that everything's safely locked
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away and you know where it is also very
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importantly but always a big cabin no-no
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is make sure that you double check the
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safe one of the things that I think is a
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big cabin no no although you may
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disagree with this one is don't make a
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mess in your cabin the cabin stewards
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have a huge amount of work to do and
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bear in mind they're often on six or
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nine month contracts they work seven
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days a week really long hours and a way
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of being kind and caring to them is not
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even your cabinet in a total tip and a
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mess it means they can get through your
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cabin quicker it means they can get
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through all the cabins they've got to do
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quicker and it makes their life so much
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more pleasurable means they can spend
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less time doing it and it's a great
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thing to do to be good to your cabin
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staff they will really appreciate it so
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not making a mess for me is a big cabin
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no no those are 11 cabin no nose for me
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hope you find that helpful if you did
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