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Cruise Bans Lifted : 8 Places You CAN Cruise Now
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Jan 28, 2025
There are 8 places around the world that you can now cruise to as the cruising suspensions and bans are lifted. These include USA, Europe, Asia and some exotic islands. I explore the 8 places the cruising suspension has started to lift and look at your cruise options right now. 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 77 cruises at time of making this video. Follow Tips For Travellers on:
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I'm Gary Bembridge and I want to talk
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about the eight places you can actually
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cruise to in the next month over ten
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different cruise lines are sailing in
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the next month and there is actually a
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brand-new cruise capital of the world it
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is no longer Florida certainly for now
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there's also two men bloom about
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cruising as we know the cruise lines out
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of the US ports have suspended all
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cruising's right through to the middle
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of September some even longer the same
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out of the UK Spain has announced that
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cruise ships are no longer allowed in
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any of its ports indefinitely Australia
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and New Zealand have extended right into
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quarter three Canada have stopped cruise
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ships over a certain size however there
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is some really good news there are eight
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different places you can cruise to so
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let's take a look at them they cover the
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United States Europe and Asia and even
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more exotic places than that Norway has
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emerged as the brand-new cruise capital
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of the world this gives you the most
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options in terms of cruising however at
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this point in time you do need to be
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norwegian or danish who to griten have
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started sailing already
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they now have up to five ships sailing
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along the Norwegian coastline as I
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mentioned you have to be Norwegian and
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Danish but they are looking to
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eventually open it up to more
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international tourists an example of
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that is they have also started a sailing
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out of Hamburg Germany for German
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passengers this is a very interesting
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cruise because it heads up over ten days
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up to the Norwegian fjords however there
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are no on land call so all of the
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activities take place in our IB boats or
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kayaking so they're all on water kind of
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excursions however Norway and on
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Norwegian fjords it's incredibly
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beautiful so she's seeing it from the
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water is fantastic anyway also in Norway
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see dream the ultra luxury yacht star
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cruising they started sailing with now
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both of their ships see dream one and
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see dream two again for Norwegian and
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Danish passengers only
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so certainly Norway is where there is
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the most cruising activity of all in the
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world right now
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Tahiti and French Polynesia has also
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opened to cruising they're starting
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initially with two cruises one on the
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11th of July and the other on the
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in July Tahiti and society island
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voyages which are initially for local
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people only however their opening to
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international travelers as French
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Polynesia opens its gates the first
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international cruise which is taking
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place on pronounce Paul Gauguin ship is
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starting up and available for
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international travelers from all around
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the world on the 29th of July however if
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you do want to cruise in French
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Polynesia you have to have done a covert
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19 tests within 72 hours of boarding the
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plane to Tahiti that's also requirement
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to board the ship you have to have that
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certificate so certainly if you want to
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go cruising and you wanna have a full
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cruising experience Tahiti is another
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place to go it is open to international
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travelers the third area can cruise is
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Iceland Iceland that said that we're
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going to open to cruising and they have
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allowed the very first international
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expedition cruise to take place and so
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ponit are heading up to the area and
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they will start sailing during July
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they're going to be running seven night
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a 2-day cruises on a brand new ship they
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love a lot
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these are expedition cruises so they're
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not necessarily calling at the normal
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places so you fly in from Paris which is
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part of the deal you have to do a cover
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19 test at the airport that cost you
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about a hundred euros about a hundred US
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dollars you then have to wait up to five
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hours for the test assuming that you are
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negative then the ship will let you
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board that's the current rule so anyone
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flying into Iceland has to do that as I
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mentioned most of these cruises are
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going to be expedition cruises so
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they're not calling out the usual places
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you'd expect you go into really wild and
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remote parts of Iceland seeing places
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you're gonna head up through into the
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Arctic Circle
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so certainly if you want to go cruising
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it's open international travelers the
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other place that you couldn't go ocean
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cruising is in France France is lifting
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its health emergency on the 11th of July
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and that allows cruises in France
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to take place also very importantly is
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the borders between EU countries have
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lifted so certainly for French
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passengers and some EU passengers are
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going to be able to sail in France and
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soap or not it's going to be the first
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cruise ship that will start selling on
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the 11th of July they're going to be
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selling out of French ports to French
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destinations
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only and they are putting five ships
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onto various different itineraries it's
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really targeted initially at French
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citizens and also increasingly to EU
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citizens across in Asia cruising is also
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going to be starting up right at the end
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of July and this is going to take place
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in Taiwan the getting owned dream
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cruises has the permission to start
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sailing they can be sailing with one of
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their ships and that is the Explorer
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dream and this is going to be doing a
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little bit like the French example only
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calling to Taiwanese destinations so
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it's going to go island hopping and it
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is only going to be initially for
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Taiwanese residents so that is a cruise
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it's starting up and certainly again
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ting with their dream and their Star
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Cruises is negotiating very actively to
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start a similar thing out of China but
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they are not confirmed to start yet in
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july european river cruising is starting
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to open up and the big trigger for that
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was when the borders between each of the
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EU countries opened on the 15th of june
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and that did unlock the ability for
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European cruises to start at the moment
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there's not that much choice in what you
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can do however you can go river cruising
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Nikko cruises started out on the Rhine
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really targeting German passengers Arosa
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has been the most active again really
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targeting German speakers and German
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passengers and they've started up on the
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dry row they've also started up now on
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the Rhine on on the Danube they haven't
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started up in France yet but they will
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start up in the middle of July and their
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first cruise is going to be on the 15th
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of July crossing Europe which is the
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biggest cruise operated in terms of the
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number of ships they're French based and
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they also plan to start rolling up their
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cruise ships during July so if you want
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to sell in France there Brian and Danube
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and then from August they are taking
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bookings now for the daughter in
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Portugal mostly of the cruise lines
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which rely very heavily though on us
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passengers are not really planning
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startup till much later
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although the borders between EU
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countries have been open and that also
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includes the UK which is of course left
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the EU however the United States is
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excluded from entering the EU at this
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point in time Russia China and a few
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other countries including those
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countries in South America not yet
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included so those cruise lines there's
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river cruise lines that rely
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heavily on us passengers are going to
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struggle a little bit more to open up
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but certainly if you're in the EU one of
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the EU countries you're going to be able
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to go river cruising mentally with
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limited choice if you're in the United
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State what are your options well one of
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your key options is river cruising the
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web players so much earlier by the
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American cruise lines however some of
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the researchers of over 19 pulled that
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however they are now sign up and do
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start selling on the Mississippi and
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those sailing start on July the 12th and
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they will be the first us-based cruise
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line that can start selling very
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important to understand is the CDC the
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Center for Disease Control has a no sale
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order however that only applies to ships
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with fewer than 250 passengers your
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other option if you are in the u.s. is
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uncrewed his plane start up as we head
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out of July in the beginning of August
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in Alaska so again they don't fall under
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the CDC rules because they do have fewer
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than 250 passengers very importantly to
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note for people heading into Alaska
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again Alaska currently has the
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requirement to have a Cove in nineteen
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tests to be able to enter the state and
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of course that will be a requirement to
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be able to cruise with anchors in Alaska
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so although ocean cruising certainly in
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the big biggest market which is the
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United States the Caribbean it is
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currently closed and locked down with no
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real Sun of that unlocking yet across
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the Mediterranean there's still no signs
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that big movements between countries
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with ocean cruising is starting up
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anytime soon we have no dates on that
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and certainly a lot of the Mediterranean
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based cruise lines have not announced
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they've got absolute approval to start
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sailing because many of those had
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included Spanish ports which of course
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are closed however there are at least as
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of recording eight different places to
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go cruising a lot of it depends on what
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nationality you are over ten cruise
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lines cruising has started to roll out
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and has small signs are beginning to
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start up again I have loads more videos
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of cruise updates tips advice so why
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don't you watch another one of those
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right now
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