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I'm gay marriage of tips for Travis I'm
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going to tell you eight things the
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brochures don't tell you about going on
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an Alaska cruise that I think you really
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need to know the first thing you need to
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know is about the weather it's likely to
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rain the Alaska cruise season runs from
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May to September and the real peak of
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the rain is right in the busiest time so
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assume if you go to Alaska that is going
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to rain places like catch account for
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example they have over 300 days a year
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of rain so don't let that put you off
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they're used to running tours they're
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used to dealing with travelers arriving
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and it's going to be raining so they can
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run the tours in the rain but just make
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sure that you are prepared with what you
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pack what you bring and what you
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warehouse to go on excursions do not let
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that put you off it is still absolutely
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magnificent and doesn't necessarily rain
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all day every day the second thing you
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need to know is you will be spending a
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lot of time on the ship so if you garden
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for example and Inside Passage cruise
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there are two sea days there's also
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going to be at least one full day of
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cruising through something like Glacia
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Bay in that seven days so there's quite
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a time spent on the ship now of course
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the cruise lines know this enable and
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lots of activities now the great news is
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the scenery pretty much at all times of
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cruising is phenomenal so you do have
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lots to look at the other thing you need
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to know is going to Alaska it's
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incredibly busy so there are at least 29
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ships in a season cruising Alaska over
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1.3 million people will cruise to Alaska
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in that pier in May to September so
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which ever porch you go to you like to
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have four or five ships there's going to
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be anything between 10,000 and 15,000
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passengers now bear in mind if you take
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a place like Skagway which is one of the
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most popular races to stop they only
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have a summertime population of about
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1,200 people the ports they're used to
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this and actually it doesn't feel that
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crowded once you're there because once
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the ships arrive people are often
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excursions and a lot of the excursions
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are heading off on float plans they're
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heading off on boats to go whale
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watching so that they disperse quite
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quickly don't let that put you off
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because what you see is phenomenal and
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once you head off on your excursion
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you've gonna feel much less crowded and
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much less busy because there are huge
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amounts of excursions the fourth thing
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you need to know is if you really want
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to go out and see things in Alaska
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excursions can be pretty expensive
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because they are do involve relatively
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expensive activities whether it's ships
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and boats going out to go well watching
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whether it's helicopters take you to
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hiking on glaciers let me give you some
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examples a phenomenal dog saying
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excursion by helicopter can cost as much
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as six hundred forty dollars well
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watching over one hundred and fifty
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dollars if you want to go on the
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Magnificent White Pass and Yukon railway
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which most people do in the standard
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class that's gonna cost you about one
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hundred and thirty dollars if you go in
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the luxury it's gonna cost you over
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three hundred dollars so you've got you
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fare of getting you to Alaska that is
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gonna cost you a lot if you really want
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to experience Alaska the fifth thing is
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about visiting Glacier Bay now Glacier
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Bay is a magnificent five-mile Inlet it
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has some of the most important and
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beautiful places however only two cruise
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ships are allowed in per day so a lot of
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the cruise lines do not head into Gaza
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Bay because they just can't get in take
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a look for a cruise line and artillery
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that's going to take you to play C Bay
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so for example I went with Holland
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America which has been traveling in
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Alaska for over 70 years and they take
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you into glacier bay fill the cruise
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lines wineries that don't go to class a
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bit I'm not going to tell you that you
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Missy haven't something magical the next
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thing I think as a white child is
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souvenirs overall personally I was quite
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disappointed with the souvenirs as I
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felt they were not that inspired and
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they weren't as authentic as I'd like
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them to be now there are two things that
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you need to look for if you're buying
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souvenirs one at which is the bear logo
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this means that it's made in Alaska or
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there's a hand logo which means that
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it's authentic handcraft by an
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indigenous population do you look for
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those two logos because it does mean
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that it's likely to be more authentic
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and not made in China or whatever the
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seventh thing to know about is Wi-Fi and
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connectivity is not that great on cruise
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ships Wi-Fi can be relatively expensive
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but certainly once you get to the
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various port you will not find lots of
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free Wi-Fi places everywhere there are
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little pockets of it and so anyways you
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get to Skagway is almost non-existent
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even the one free Wi-Fi at the library
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your phone connection may be a little
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bit erratic because of all the mountains
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bear in mind then for that week the join
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your last cruise you are going to be
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relatively disconnected the a thing that
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I want to talk about which they don't
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really warn you about is if you're going
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your last could cruise out of Vancouver
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you then of course are heading from
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Canada into the United States and
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actually passing through the whole
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immigration is quite a long and
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laborious process and quite slow because
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on any one day in Vancouver you probably
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got two or three ships boarding so I
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think I recommend you do as well getting
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around that is actually try and check in
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a little bit later towards the end of
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the day obviously making sure you
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implement of time before your cruise
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closes then hopefully some of the lines
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have gone down so those are the eight
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things that I think that the brochures
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don't tell you about Alaska that you do
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need to know going to Alaska is
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absolutely magnificent at least by
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knowing these eight things you can plan
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be prepared and make much more of your
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leska experience if you enjoyed this
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video what I'd like you to do is to
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