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in this video you will find out how to
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travel significantly cheaper as a solo
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Cruiser hi I'm Gary Bembridge of tips to
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travelers and also the author of a
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couple of cruise books including the
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cruise travelers handbook and essential
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the challenge with cruising as a solo
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traveler is you'll find as a surcharge
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on many many cruise lines and
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itineraries of anything between 50% and
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a hundred percent of the room rates so
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it can be very very expensive to cruise
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so I have five tips to show you how you
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can cruise in a much more cost-effective
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search out cruise lines and shifts that
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have solar cabins the good news is that
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pretty much all the major cruise lines
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as they bring in new ships are bringing
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in ships with a percentage of solar
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cabins they understand this as a growing
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trend and very important cover the
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cruise lines that I would recommend you
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specifically take a look out for is Q
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not all three of their ships the Queen
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Mary - Queen Elizabeth and the Queen
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Victoria they all now have solar cabins
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there's not a lot of them but they do
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have them available also cruise lines
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like P&O Cruises the two of the really
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big boys that you should take a look at
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is Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise
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Line now we can Cruise Line has what I
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think is one of the most innovative
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things when it comes to solar cruisin
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they've created this area on some of
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their larger ships which are only solar
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cabin so you have you know usual ki
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Carter into that area so it has a little
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bit of extra security around it visible
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sort of lounge communal area and then
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they have the solar cabins when you're
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looking for a cruise certainly ask your
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cruise agent for ships and cruise lines
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that have specific solo cabins that's
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your best way of finding a great fare
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the second thing to consider is look at
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European river cruising so many of the
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cruise lines that go up and down the
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rivers within Europe offer either great
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deals or have solar cabins it's very
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very easy to find solo traveler deals on
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river cruise lines you'll find lots of
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solar travelers normally and you know
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they really do cater for solo travelers
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european river cruising is a great
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option for solo cruisers so the third
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tip is some cruise lines actually offer
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programs where they will partner up
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solar travelers so you'll find that
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happens quite a lot on some of the more
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exotic lighting reefs like the article
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arctica they will often offer up schemes
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where they will partner set of travelers
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together but even cruise lines
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mainstream cruise lines like princess
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and Harlan America or also often offers
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opportunity so again you can approach
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the cruise line and your cruise agent
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and find out if they do run those
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programs on your particular itinerary
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because the downside is you will be
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cruising with people that you may or may
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not you know get on with but certainly
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on some of those itineraries which are
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very important tensive you may find you
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don't mind that because actually saving
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between 50% and 100% surcharge is worth
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taking the risk of the partnership
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program so my fourth tip is to sign up
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for solo traveler sites and blogs
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newsletters there are a couple of really
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great blogs that specifically target
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solar travelers and they're always on
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the lookout for deals and in their
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various newsletters they will always
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publish when they come across other
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special deals or special offers
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targeting solar travelers so a couple of
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those sites to consider our sites like
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Solar traveler blog comm which is one of
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the largest online resources for solar
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travel advice and deals
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there's also singles travel in Telkom
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and solos holidays Cote UK the other
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thing I would also do when you're
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signing up for newsletters is if there
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are any particular cruise lines that
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really appeal to you whether it's
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Holland America q nard Royal Caribbean
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whatever it is also sign up for their
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newsletters because it's those
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newsletters where they will also publish
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promotions when it comes to solar
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travelers so I'm frequently getting
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newsletters where they will have a
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specific time of the year or a program
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targeted set of travelers so my fifth
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tip is actually another one related to
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using the Internet what you can do on
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sites like Google for example is if you
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search solo cruise deals or solo
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traveler cruises and it will give you
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various resources and tips etc but then
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set up an alert it's very easy to do if
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you type in that particular search term
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you can then set up an alert as various
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articles or promotions come up and are
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picked up by search engines like Google
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they will send you alert about those
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deals so there you are those are five
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tips on how as a solo traveler you can
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more cost-effective way of cruising it
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can be very expensive
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going on a cruise as a solo traveler you
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know 50 percent to a hundred percent
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surcharge makes it very very costly but
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there are different resources you can
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use and increasingly the great news is
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cruising is really really focusing on
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solar trailers if you liked the video
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and you found the tips helpful be great
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what would also be even better is if you
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have any other ideas or suggestions or
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